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In our latest episode focusing on merger control in the EU and UK, Marcel Nuys (Partner, Dusseldorf), Francesca Morra (Partner, Milan), Peter Rowland (Of Counsel, Brussels) and Natalia Rodriguez (Of Counsel, London) explore key developments of interest to businesses engaged in M&A activity. They discuss updates to the European Commission’s substantive and procedural guidance in … Read more
On 25 May 2022 the Supreme Court overturned the Court of Appeal’s ruling on costs in Pfizer and Flynn Pharma and concluded that the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) had applied the correct test when awarding a proportion of their costs against the CMA. Read more
On 24 November 2020, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) handed down a decision on the applicability of Article 7(2) of Regulation No 1215/2012 (the Brussels Ia Reg) to competition law disputes in a preliminary reference relating to an action by German hotel Wikingerhof GmbH & Co. KG (Wikingerhof) against Booking.com BV … Read more
“Documents which are not linked to Facebook Ireland Ltd’s business activities and which contain sensitive personal data shall be placed in a virtual data room which shall be accessible to as limited a number as possible of members of the team responsible for the investigation”. On 29 October 2020, in two identical orders, 1 the … Read more
On 17 January 2020 the UK Competition and Markets Authority published a penalty notice imposing its first ever fine for non-compliance with an information request issued in the context of a market study. This follows on from a series of recent fines issued for failure to comply with requests for information in the context of … Read more
