
Easter season finds the Antitrust community walking egg shells, with uncertainty (and some palpable effects) over the looming upheaval to Europe’s Status Quo. Across the Atlantic some decisions continue to confound predictions, while developments in ‘new’ Asian and European jurisdictions come under greater scrutiny by their global peers. Thankfully, new resources and insightful think-pieces are at hand to help make sense of it all before the flurry of activity that is sure to come.
If you are the antitrust lawyer for a defendant in a class action, defeating class certification is a major victory—usually a complete victory, pending appeal.
Jarod Bona (The Antitrust Attorney)
Roman Madej (Bryan Cave EU Competition Law)
The Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (‘the AMCU’) has recently completed complex research into the national tobacco market. The market research was triggered by the investigation against ‘TEDIS’ (‘Company’), which has a monopoly on the market of cigarette distribution in Ukraine.
Timur Bondaryev (Arzinger/Kluwer Competition)
Daniel A. Friedman & Melissa R. Ginsburg (Antitrust Update)
Alfonso Lamadrid (Chilling Competition)
Over the last two years, the Scalia Law School’s Global Antitrust Institute (GAI) has taken a leadership role in promoting sound antitrust analysis of intellectual property rights (IPRs), through its insightful analysis of IP-antitrust guidance proffered by governments around the world (including by the United States antitrust agencies.)
On 29 March 2017, the same day that United Kingdom has officially launched the Brexit process, the European Commission (Commission) blocked the proposed 29 billion Euro merger between Deutsche Börse AG (DBAG) and London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) under the EU Merger Regulation…
The UK Competition and Markets Authority (“CMA”) has published new commentary to inform companies on how it assess retail mergers. The commentary should be read by any retailer considering merging with a competitor in the UK.
The incentive is high to identify a Sherman Act violation in your competitor’s conduct—three times higher, to be precise, than to bring a claim for an ordinary business tort or even a false advertising claim under the Lanham Act.
David Kleban and William F. Cavanaugh, Jr. (Antitrust Connect)
Describing the case law as outdated, ordoliberal (one of the most abused and misunderstood notions in competition law commentary) or nonsense often makes lawyers score brownie points with peers and clients. And they are easy points, because it is not like the Court is going to intervene in the debate to defend itself.
Alfonso Lamadrid (Chilling Competition)
Competition compliance outreach is one of the Bureau’s key activities. In this regard, the Bureau engages in a range of efforts to encourage Canadian businesses and other organizations, including trade and professional associations, to comply with the federalCompetition Act.
Steve Szentesi (Canadian Competition & Regulatory Law)
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