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07 Jan, 2025

Navigating UK competition law: What should you expect in 2025?

By Caroline Thomas Mark Daniels

As the clock ticked past midnight on New Year’s Eve, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) had extra reason to celebrate. The...

20 Dec, 2024

German Federal Government unveils proposals for modernizing EU competition law

By Tim Schaper Jens Steger Violetta Bourt +2 more...

Competition wish-list for the new Commission suggests better alignment with German Federal Government Recent months have sparked...

18 Dec, 2024

Our ultimate (but digestible) guide to EU antitrust for 2025

By Alexandra Rogers Sabine Holinde

An eventful year for competition law developments is drawing to a close. 2024 presented us with a new European Commission (EC), the...

04 Dec, 2024

Fashion faux pas! Pierre Cardin and its distributor Ahlers fined for carving up the EU internal market through anticompetitive licensing agreements

By Alexandra Rogers Matej Ovecka

On 28 November 2024, the European Commission (EC) fined French fashion house Pierre Cardin and one of its licensees – Ahlers Group – EUR...

02 Dec, 2024

A brand new approach or business as usual? Executive Vice-President Ribera starts her term as competition chief

By Alexandra Rogers Flupke van den Bogart

The new European Commission (EC) started its five-year term on 1 December 2024. The EU institutions had spent the last six months...

18 Nov, 2024

Nvidia/Run:AI referral: A path forward for “killer acquisitions” after Illumina/Grail?

By Alexandra Rogers Jay Modrall Francesco Salis

In its September 2024 Illumina/Grail judgment, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) rebuffed the European Commission’s...

31 Oct, 2024

UOKiK exempts from the merger notification obligation extraterritorial JVs with no effect on the Polish market

By Alexandra Rogers Tim Schaper Agnieszka Braciszewska +2 more...

On 25 October 2024, the Polish Competition Authority Urząd Ochrony Konkurencji i Konsumentów (UOKiK) updated its merger notification...

20 Oct, 2024

From SpaceX to Legal Geek: Legal Innovation at its forefront

By Bernhard Fiedler

Sometimes, it's essential to take a step back and reflect on just how much has changed in recent years. Last weekend, my children and I...

15 Oct, 2024

Stärkung des Justizstandorts Deutschland – BGH in der Rechtssache Trucks IV

By Jens Steger Nicolas Quindeau

Das höchste deutsche Zivilgericht hat eine vierte Entscheidung zum LKW-Kartell vom 09. Juli 2024 (Az.: KZR 98/20) veröffentlicht...

04 Oct, 2024

CJEU FIFA judgment: Significant implications for football transfer system

By Ian Giles

Today, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has ruled that certain aspects of FIFA's football transfer rules – whereby...

25 Sep, 2024

All’s well that ends well? EC concludes first in-depth merger review under the FSR

By Alexandra Rogers Katarzyna Berestecka

What happened? The European Commission’s (EC) application of the new Foreign Subsidies Regulation (FSR) has reached another significant...

17 Sep, 2024

On to pastures new: Commission president designates the EU’s next competition chief

By Alexandra Rogers

The suspense is over! After the frenzied speculation that this topic generated over the summer, European Commission President Ursula von...