In March 2014, the Office of Fair Trading (“OFT”) announced that it had adopted a decision finding that a leading manufacturer of mobility scooters, Pride, had illegally prevented its dealers from…
The recent practice of the President of the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection (the "OCCP") shows that conditional clearance decisions are becoming more common. In 2014, the OCCP issued…
Co-authored by Jay Modrall and Shan Hu. The authors of this article would like to thank Marc Waha, partner at Norton Rose Fulbright, for his insightful comments.
1 Introduction
The Chinese National…
10th GCLC Annual Conference
Thursday-Friday, November 6-7, 2014
"10 YEARS OF IMPLEMENTATION OF REGULATION 1/2003: CHALLENGES AND REFORM"
This conference is dedicated to Regulation 1/2003 and…
Inductive reasoning is sometimes explained by using either the ‘duck test’ (“if it looks like a duck, swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck”) or the ‘elephant test’ (“…
Two unusual features of the United Kingdom’s merger control regime are that notification is voluntary and there is no ‘suspension’ obligation. This means that mergers can be – and routinely are -…
Just over a year ago, I wrote (rather extensively) on the European Commission's public consultation entitled “Towards more effective EU Merger Control” in which the Commission proposed to (i) expand…
9th GCLC Evening Policy Talk
Monday, September 29, 2014 from 18:45 PM to 20:30 PM
The Intel Judgment and the Administrability of the Effects-based Approach
Professor Massimo MOTTA, Chief…
On 15 August 2014, the Competition and Markets Authority (“CMA”) approved Alliance Medical Group’s completed acquisition of IBA Molecular’s radioactive medical tracer business. Although IBA’s…
On 9 July 2014, the European Commission published a White Paper setting out proposals to amend the EU merger control system. The proposed reform of the system is the most significant in the last 10…
