The DMA celebrates its second year of application. Since its existence, the regulation has brought changes to the digital space but also regulatory unpredictability in terms of legal standards and…
Competition authorities around the world are closing loopholes and asserting jurisdiction over mergers that have potentially harmful effects but that fall below quantitative merger-control thresholds…
The European Commission’s study on 20 years of EU antitrust remedies finds that while most remedies in antitrust cases were implemented, less than half achieved their intended effect.
EU law…
Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future,
And time future contained in time past.
From T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets
Establishing an antitrust infringement can already…
Acqui-hiring—a fusion of the words acquisition and hiring—refers to the practice of larger companies acquiring start-ups with the primary goal of integrating the employees of the startup to their own…
The UK’s Competition & Markets Authority (CMA) is taking significant steps to evolve its approach to merger control, introducing a new Mergers Charter and launching a review of its merger…
Introduction
In 2016, the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) was introduced, fundamentally changing how distressed businesses in India are restructured and how debt recovery is managed. The IBC has…
Introduction
In 2024, the Netherlands Authority for Consumer & Markets (“ACM”) in the Netherlands made some steps in shaping the landscape of competition law and policy. The year was marked by a…
Significant competition law developments emerged in Chile during 2024. While this summary does not provide a detailed description of how Chile’s competition enforcement system operates (for that,…
2024 marked the 10th year since the Georgian Competition and Consumer Agency (GCCA or Agency) started operating as an independent competition enforcer. Created to satisfy an obligation under the 2014…
