The merger control regime in India has been in existence since 2011. The provisions of the Competition Act are to be read together with the notifications issued by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs,…
79th Lunch Talk of the Global Competition Law Center
Monday, March 14, 2016 from 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM
Assessing unilateral effects in horizontal mergers: closeness of competition and the role of…
A recent report from the National Audit Office has recommended that the Competition and Markets Authority ("CMA") increase the number of cartel investigations it carries out. A number of recent…
The summaries of the pleas of the actions for annulment lodged by Luxembourg and the Netherlands in the Fiat and Starbucks cases respectively were recently published (see here and here). Moreover,…
DG COMP has published a study by the University of East Anglia analysing the European Commission's approach to geographic market definition in recent cases. It has reviewed ten cases from 2008-2014…
On 29 January 2016, the Court of First Instance of Hong Kong ruled in favour of TVB and against the Communications Authority (the “CA”), in the ‘no Cantonese’ policy abuse of dominance case.
The 2013…
On January 20, 2016, the European Court of Justice (the Court) issued a seminal preliminary ruling on the relationship between EU and Member State leniency programmes in Case C‑428/14, DHL Express (…
The COMPAT’s recent judgment in Hiranandani contains several important lessons for the Indian antitrust community. The case reflects the CCI’s desire for strong enforcement and effective deterrence…
Eturas runs the e-commerce back-end of 30 travel agents in Lithuania. An administrator message to each member informed them that the e-commerce functionality allowing each travel agent to grant…
Timur Bondaryev and Lana Sinichkina, Arzinger
On January 26, 2016 Ukrainian Parliament adopted the law amending Ukrainian merger control rules. The law increased notification thresholds which…
