Nota Bene Episode 116: Challenging the U.S. Big Tech Antitrust Debate Assumptions: A Deep Dive with Thomas Dillickrath and Bill Margeson
We end 2020 with a heavy dose of antitrust/competition stories (which is a theme likely to continue into 2021), including updates from Russia, Croatia and the European Union. Those of you with properties in those markets may...more
The Federal Antimonopoly Service strengthens enforcement of foreign investments legislation - Established by the Russian government in 2008, the Government Commission on Control over Foreign Investments in the Russian...more
A new law that comes into effect in Russia on March 12, 2020, introduces antitrust compliance into Russian law. Among other things, this new law could serve as a legitimate basis for Russian subsidiaries of multinational...more
On 1 March 2020, the Russian President signed the bill setting forth the legal framework for the internal systems of antimonopoly compliance (the "Compliance Amendments"). The Compliance Amendments will come into force on 12...more
Following adoption of the law on the preinstallation of Russian software on electronic devices in December 2019, the Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) has developed draft guidelines to determine the types of...more
The Russian government clarified requirements to disclosure of information about foreign investors' beneficiaries, beneficial owners and controlling persons. The Government Commission on Control over Foreign Investments in...more
At the end of June a mechanism providing for temporary protection of industrial designs was introduced into the Russian legal system. In short it requires somebody who uses an industrial design during the period of its...more
A new version of the Russian Competition Law amended by the so-called ‘fourth antimonopoly package’ (the “275 Law”) came into effect on January 5, 2016 (except for certain provisions). The 275 Law includes long-expected...more
Despite having been amended twenty times to date, Federal Law No. 135-FZ: "On Protection of Competition" dated July 26, 2006 (the "Competition Law"), passed in July 2006 with the aim of effectively regulating monopolistic...more