Enforcement

Introduction2025 is proving a busy year for merger control in China, as the State Administration for Market Regulation (“SAMR”) – China’s antitrust authority – is beefing up merger control…

With the Sustainability Omnibus of last week still keeping us in shock and the incoming Digital Omnibus already looming over us, it is important to pause, take a step back, and ask ourselves, what…

Given the creeping complexity of cases, expanding evidence bases, and the ever present threat (or reality) of budget cuts, competition authorities around the world are on the lookout for ways to…

The following is a selection of some of the most important developments in German competition law and policy in 2021.  It has been a busy year for the Federal Cartel Office ("FCO"), inter alia…

In January 2021, the latest reform of the German competition law (“ARC”) entered into force, including significant new rules regarding digital platform markets.  These include new powers for the…

In its recent draft annual plan, the Competition and Markets Authority (“CMA”) committed itself “to further step up the pace, scale and impact of our enforcement against anticompetitive or unfair…

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 -…

 In a move that signals that UK criminal cartel enforcement is set to increase, Peter Nigel Snee appeared on 27 January 2014 at Westminster Magistrates' Court to face charges under the UK's criminal…

Here is an item on an important decision of Canada's Competition Tribunal written by my partners George Addy, Sandra Forbes, John Bodrug and Jim Dinning. It is especially relevant for trade…