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ABA 2025 Antitrust Spring Meeting
Article
Preparing for positive: how VLOP and VLOSE providers can comply with DSA audit obligations
Alert
The Draghi Report: A Blueprint for the EU Competition Commissioner-Designate?
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EU top court delivers a blow to the European Commission’s approach on Article 22 below-threshold referrals
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The European Commission moves away from economics and proposes a presumption-based approach in its draft guidelines on exclusionary abuses
ESG and Sustainability
Insight
Global antitrust sustainability heatmap
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The European Commission modernises its market definition guidance
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European Court of Justice rules that foreign investment screening cannot be used as a protectionist tool within the EU
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European Court of Justice confirms that national authorities can review ex-post below-threshold mergers under abuse of dominance rules
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EU Court of Justice confirms that the Intel effects-based approach applies to exclusive dealing and clarifies the narrow circumstances under which the conduct of distributors can engage the liability of a dominant company
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EU Court of Justice clarifies the scope of the essential facilities doctrine in Lithuanian Railways
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The Draft DMA Implementing Regulation – Balancing effectiveness with due process?
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ECJ Advocate General proposes that non-reportable transactions could be caught by abuse of dominance rules
Technology
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The Digital Markets Act (DMA) goes live
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EU General Court quashes Qualcomm antitrust fine for "exclusivity payments", and censures the EU Commission for multiple due process and substantive errors
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EU General Court demands a vigorous effects-based analysis for rebates cases and annuls the European Commission’s Intel decision and the €1.06 billion fine
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European Commission consumer IoT sector inquiry: Preliminary Report
stormy seas
Insight
Global merger control: Navigating stormy seas
There have been a number of developments in merger control in 2020 and Q1 2021. Some are related to the repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic, while others are borne out of the ambitions and changes sought by individual competition authorities or unexpected jurisprudence
Greece
Insight
Greece
The new president of the Hellenic Competition Commission (HCC), Ioannis Lianos, is a well-known academic particularly attuned to public interest issues.
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The ECJ’s Lundbeck judgment offers little new on patent settlements but gives birth to an interesting principle: sector inquiries give rise to a duty of diligence
Article
European Union: Pharmaceuticals
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The European Commission eyes the addition of a market investigation tool to its 60-year-old toolbox - but is it a chisel or a sledgehammer?
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A Re-awakening of the Failing Firm Defence in the EU in the Aftermath of COVID-19?
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White & Case bespoke online training
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Court of Appeal broadly upholds the CAT's judgment in Phenytoin and clarifies "excessive pricing" test
Authorities can't stick their head in the sand – they have to consider different types of evidence