By Jean-François Bellis1   One of the major and most remarkable innovations in the 2023 European Commission Guidelines on Horizontal cooperation2 (hereinafter “Horizontal Guidelines”) was the introduction of a chapter…

By Oleksandr Aleksyeyenko1   Wartime Implications Russian military aggression against Ukraine started on February 24, 2022, and the end of February 2022 became a critical point for the Antimonopoly Committee…

By Antonio Bavasso, Josh Buckland & Michael Tagliavini1   I. Introduction and Overview On July 13, 2023, the highest EU court – the European Court of Justice (“ECJ”) – handed…

By Neyzar Ünübol1   In June of 2020, a new commitment procedure was first introduced to Turkish legislation as part of Law No. 4054 on the Protection of Competition (the…

By Lawrence B. Landman*   Many observers were surprised when the United Kingdom’s Competition and Markets Authority (“CMA”) recently prohibited Microsoft’s proposed $69 billion acquisition of Activision.  But they should…

By Marc Barennes, Bas Braeken, Demi van den Berg,1 and Simon Lelouche,2   On 10 November 2022, the Court of Justice of the European Union (“ECJ”) issued its ruling in…

By Dr. Fernando Herrera González*   Recently, Orange and MásMovil have announced that they are negotiating an agreement to form a single company in Spain. Experience shows that these transactions…

By Simon Vande Walle1   Former President Bill Clinton famously denied having had sexual relations with Ms. Lewinsky. After the details of his affair became public, most reasonable people concluded…