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Following the Canadian Competition Bureau’s 2023 Retail Grocery Market Study in which it recommended that provincial and territorial governments take measures to limit property controls in the grocery industry, including...more
The United Kingdom’s Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act (the Act) received royal assent on 24 May 2024. The Act introduces wide-ranging amendments to the UK competition and consumer law regimes that expand the...more
Recent (and ongoing) amendments to the Competition Act have resulted in several new powers for the Competition Bureau, which may have significant and far-reaching implications for businesses in Canada. One such amendment...more
Canada’s Competition Act was amended effective December 15, 2023 to both (i) establish a new, more expansive framework for challenging anti-competitive conduct by dominant firms and (ii) specifically provide that it is an...more
With the passing of Bill C-56, the most recent in an ongoing series of amendments to the Competition Act have now been enacted (with more expected to follow). The Commissioner of Competition has been pushing for amendments to...more
The government announced significant additional amendments to Canada’s Competition Act in late November 2023, building on those already under consideration by Parliament in Bill C-56 and others enacted in 2022. More...more
This newsletter is a summary of the antitrust developments we think are most interesting to your business. Börries Ahrens, partner based in Hamburg, is our editor this month. He has selected: Significant reforms to German...more
On November 28, 2023 the Canadian government unveiled another round of amendments to the Competition Act that had been previewed in its Fall Economic Statement the previous week. These changes, together with several...more
Canada’s Minister of Finance, Chrystia Freeland, delivered the federal government’s Fall Economic Statement (FES) on November 21, 2023, in which she announced the government’s intention to introduce “generational changes to...more
In Difederico v. Amazon.com, 2023 FC 1156, the Federal Court refused to certify a proposed class action involving allegations that a collection of Amazon entities (“Amazon”) had breached sections 45 and 46 of the Competition...more
The Canadian government has proposed giving the Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry the ability to direct the Competition Bureau to conduct market studies with the ability to compel production of related documents...more
Very soon, a long-awaited amendment to the Czech Act on the Protection of Competition will become law, implementing (after a long delay) the requirements of what is known as the ECN+ Directive (an EU directive designed to...more
For the second year in a row the Canadian government has maintained the transaction-size threshold for pre-merger notification at $93 million. The Minister cited the need to fully scrutinize potentially harmful deals and the...more
The ruling is also a reminder of the circumstances in which the court may order indemnity costs for such failures. On 29 July 2022, the UK High Court ruled in Cabo Concepts Limited v. MGA Entertainment (UK) Limited that...more
The calls to reform Canada's antitrust framework are growing louder. On February 7, 2022, the Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, Francois-Philippe Champagne, announced a comprehensive review of the Competition...more
Globally, competition regulators have increased their attention to digital companies since big tech firms and dual platforms have the capabilities to gain disproportional advantages. Competition and antitrust laws aim to...more
Court ruling confirms that online sales restrictions can amount to a serious infringement of competition law. On 21 January 2020, the UK’s Court of Appeal ruled that the online sales restrictions contained in Ping’s...more
In a landmark decision on 21 February 2019 (the "Decision"), marking the first use of its enforcement powers under the Competition Act 1998 ("CA 1998"), the Financial Conduct Authority ("FCA") imposed fines on three asset...more
Required and Regulated Conduct under Canada’s Competition Act - The Competition Bureau’s updated Abuse of Dominance Enforcement Guidelines expressly provide, for the first time, that a party’s compliance with a statutory...more
On 21 February 2019, the FCA issued its first competition law infringement decision since it was given competition law powers on 1 April 2015. Three asset management firms were found to have shared strategic information...more
Read the latest news on antitrust, competition, and economic regulation in this summer edition of our quarterly ACER newsletter. ...more
The Bill: The Singapore Parliament passed a bill giving the Competition Commission of Singapore (or CCS) regulatory powers over consumer protection. The expanded body is now (effective 1 April 2018) called the Competition and...more
One of the primary aspects covered by the 9th reform of the German Competition Act that has just entered into effect is the transposition of the EU Cartel Damages Directive into German law. The preparatory works in the draft...more
The 9th reform of the German Competition Act is due to take effect on 9 June 2017. It primarily transposes the EU Cartel Damages Directive into German law. On top, it brings a number of other amendments. Here is a summary of...more
BREXIT – BUSINESS AS USUAL...AT LEAST FOR NOW - What do you need to know? Despite the UK's vote to leave the European Union ("EU"), companies doing business in the UK can still continue to trade with the EU in...more