Introduction
Most Competition Authorities the world-over that are involved in ex-ante or ex-post merger review process use tools that are in some way universally accepted. This is because these…
On July 17, 2019, the German Bundeskartellamt (Federal Cartel Office, “FCO”) terminated its dominance probe into Amazon’s business terms towards sellers on its marketplace after Amazon agreed to…
RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN CANADIAN MERGER REVIEW: NEW COMMISSIONER MEANS NEW ENFORCEMENT AGENDA
Anita Banicevic, Charles Tingley, Mark Katz
In March 2019, Matthew Boswell was appointed to head the…
325 days from first filing, the CCPC just recently cleared Live Nation’s acquisition of sole control of Irish concert promoter, MCD Productions, a merger of Ireland’s largest ticketing company and…
In the last week of June 2019, a copy of a ground-breaking court ruling emerged on social media in China – the order by the Supreme People's Court (SPC) in the case between Yutai Technology Feed (…
Background
On 3rd June 2019, CCI delivered yet another order, wherein it held the Madhya Pradesh Chemists & Druggists Association along with other district-level Associations and Pharma Companies…
Abstract
In its recent decision V2018-22 the Norwegian Competition Authority (‘NCA’) approved – subject to remedies – the acquisition by Sector Alarm AS ("Sector") of the small systems business of…
On 16th April 2019, the Competition Commission of India (CCI) ordered a probe against the multinational technology company, Google, for abusing its dominant position in clear violation of Section 4…
On 1 July 2019, the State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) made public three sets of regulations to implement China's Anti-Monopoly Law (AML):
the Interim Regulation Prohibiting Monopoly…
Introduction
When competition law is considered, first issues that come to mind are anticompetitive agreements between competitors, abusive unilateral practices of dominant undertakings and mergers…
