HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE OECD WORKSHOP ON GENDER AND COMPETITION POLICY

12 March, 2021
As we celebrate International Women’s Week in various different ways, we have also been reflecting on gender and competition policy. This is an area which has been coming under increasing focus, and which our Brussels competition team is monitoring closely. Two key themes are the opportunity for competition authorities and practitioners to adopt a gender … Read more

Views on an evolving automotive industry: Responding to competition law challenges

25 June, 2020
The automotive industry is unquestionably evolving at considerable pace, whether through advances in connectivity and autonomy in vehicles, developments in the way that consumers access and use vehicles or changes driven by the “electric revolution” and the unprecedented industry disruption caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. In the latest article in a series entitled “Views on … Read more

2019 African competition law year in review

19 February, 2020
The below brief addresses a number of interesting developments that occurred in the competition space across Africa during the course of 2019. In South Africa, we consider the amendments to the Competition Act, the enforcement approach to the new buyer power and price discrimination provisions, outcomes of the market inquiries into private healthcare, the grocery … Read more

Joint tendering under Spanish competition law

15 March, 2019
In this video update, Henar González Durántez (head of the Competition and Trade practice in Madrid) analyses joint bidding through consortia agreements in Spain (known as UTEs) from the perspective of competition law and provides a series of recommendations for companies that are considering forming a consortium agreement or UTE to participate in a tender. … Read more