February gets the year into gear for Competition Authorities around the world as they come to terms an uncertain outlook on many fronts. Questions abound, from the effects (real and imagined) of BREXIT, to the early signs coming from a freshly installed (but not yet fully staffed) Trump administration and the prospect of Chinese antitrust authorities taking on a more prominent role in global affairs. All things to look forward to as Spring approaches in the Antitrust world.
Recent years have seen a significant increase in the number of private competition claims in the European Union. The Claimants’ Guide to Antitrust/Competition Litigation in the European Union provides an overview of the process for recovering compensation for breaches of competition law before the national courts of an EU Member State…
Robert Bell (Competition Law/Bryan Cave)
(Norton Rose Fulbright)
The German Ministry for Economic Affairs published a draft bill for the 9th amendment of the German Act against Restraints of Competition (Gesetz gegen Wettbewerbsbeschränkungen – GWB). The draft bill addresses numerous topics which have been subject to intensive discussions in German competition policy…
Robert Bell (Competition Law/Bryan Cave)
Alden Abbott (Truth on the Market)
Stephanie Gyetvan & Johnathan H. Hatch (Antitrust Update)
Rupprecht Podszun, Professor of Competition Law at the University of Dusseldorf, has recently published two posts outlining the reforms to the German competition law system proposed by the government…
As I mentioned in my first post, How to Regulate examines the market failures (and other private ordering defects) that have traditionally been invoked as grounds for government regulation. For each such defect, the book details the adverse “symptoms” produced, the underlying “disease”…
In December 2016, a Mexican court Specialised in Competition (the First Collegiate Tribunal) recognised, for the first time in this field of law, the existence of the legal privilege as a protection of attorney-client communications.
The United Kingdom’s June 23, 2016 vote to leave the European Union, known as Brexit, triggered a political and economic earthquake.
(Norton Rose Fulbright)
In the past month, the DOJ and several state governments scored two trial wins in their challenges to mergers among some of the country’s largest health insurers.
David Kleban & Johnathan H. Hatch (Antitrust Update)
Among pending cases before the Court, Coty certainly stands out. Its practical implications are difficult to overestimate. The judgment will have important consequences for online commerce and the luxury industry, on the one hand, and major Internet players, on the other.
Pablo Ibanez Colomo (Chilling Competition)