Antitrust Chronicle® 2016
December 2016
Holiday Reading Edition Before you all enjoy a well-deserved winter break, this month’s Antitrust Chronicle brings you a seasonal present throughout our selection of Holiday Readings. This compilation of articles from academics, practitioners and even a newly appointed head of antitrust transition team under President-Elect Trump will make your cold (or hot) days of December more pleasant.
November 2016
Telecommunications This month, the Antitrust Chronicle brings you a special edition on antitrust issues in the telecoms sector, focusing on the evolution of 5G technology. Across jurisdictions, many experts and practitioners agree that 5G differs from previous cellular generations and there are numerous antitrust issues that potentially come along with these changes and. Some wonder if today’s regulations are able to deal with the new developments in the telecoms sector. An overarching question is whether there is a problem of regulation or competition or both?
October 2016
Antitrust developments in Asia-Pacific This month, the Antitrust Chronicle brings you the Antitrust Developments in the ASIA-PACIFIC region thanks to our guest editor Daniel Sokol who also wrote this letter. In 2011, the Asian Development Bank famously predicted that by 2050, an additional 3 billion people in the Asian regions could reach European living standards, thereby making the 2000s the “Asian Century.”
September 2016
Patents and Standard Settings This month, the Antitrust Chronicle brings you an interesting and complex issue at the crossroads of antitrust and intellectual property rights, the analysis of standard settings. Fair, Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory… the infamous ‘FRAND.’ We see this term time and time again in antitrust policy. None more so than when linked to the issue of standard setting.
August 2016
Judicial Recap: What has happened in the last year? This month, the Antitrust Chronicle brings you a (Judicial Recap) of important antitrust judgments from the previous year from a variety of jurisdictions. Are we starting to see more evidence of international best practices taking hold across jurisdictional lines when it comes to abuse of dominance, cartel and merger cases, or do we still see many points of sharp differences?
July 2016
Antirust Antipasto This month, the Antitrust Chronicle brings you our traditional summer edition “Antirust Antipasto.” July 2017 Antitrust Chronicle
June 2016
Cartels & Concerted Practices: From A to Z This month, the Antitrust Chronicle (AC) brings you a special edition on recent developments in merger control with highlights featuring articles on mega-mergers in a variety of sectors, filings in different jurisdictions, due process and risk allocation in protracted investigations.
May 2016
Mega-mergers: Squaring the circle This month, the Antitrust Chronicle (AC) brings you a special edition on recent developments in merger control with highlights featuring articles on mega-mergers in a variety of sectors, filings in different jurisdictions, due process and risk allocation in protracted investigations.
April 2016
Are competition authorities doing it well? April 2016 Antitrust Chronicle. The Antitrust Chronicle (AC) brings this month an especial edition on agencies?
March 2016
Single Firm/Unilateral Conduct Update Antitrust Chronicle This Antitrust Chronicle (AC) addresses recent developments on Single Firm/Unilateral Conduct.
February 2016
Antitrust Developments in China This month CPI would like to join the Chinese New Year celebrations this year of the monkey, and bring to our readers a special issue on Antitrust Developments in China. Last year, 2015, was a very active year for Chinese antitrust authorities as well as Chinese courts. The experience accumulated by the administrative agencies and the courts since the promulgation in 2007 of the Chinese Anti-Monopoly Law is now bringing remarkable results. Enforcement, merger control, advocacy and even international cooperation have shown improvements over the years, and 2016 seems to be a very promising year for the antitrust community in China.
