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CJEU Ruling Supports Third-Party Access to Dominant Digital Platforms

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On February 25, 2025, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) held in Google Android Auto1 that a dominant platform’s refusal to ensure interoperability with a third-party app may constitute an abuse of dominance....more

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Google Search: Data Sharing as a Risk or Remedy?

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Google is so ubiquitous it's both a noun and a verb, and nearly everyone's search engine of choice. As a result, the landmark antitrust case brought by the U.S. Department of Justice and several states (collectively, the...more

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Global antitrust enforcement report - 2025

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2024 saw a significant increase in overall global fines for antitrust enforcement, with total penalties for the jurisdictions surveyed in our report at USD6.7 billion, over double that of 2023 (USD2.9bn) and substantially...more

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European Commission’s First-Ever Abuse of Dominance Probe for Shelving of a Novel Pipeline Therapy

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The European Commission (EC) has launched a formal investigation under its abuse of dominance rules into US life sciences company Zoetis in the area of novel veterinary medicines. The EC alleges that the discontinuation of a...more

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Canada’s Competition Act Amendments: Making It Riskier to Compete on Price?

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One of the recent amendments to the Competition Act has the potential to seriously chill price competition by leading Canadian businesses....more

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Lessons for 2022 – What to Take Away from the EU’s €2.4B Google Antitrust Fine

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On November 10, 2021, the European Union’s General Court issued a decision largely upholding the European Commission’s finding that Google abused its dominant position by favoring results from its own comparison-shopping...more

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The UK Court of Appeal Overturns CAT and Imposes Agency Discretion on Excessive Price Benchmark

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On March 10, 2020, the England and Wales Court of Appeal (CoA) handed down its judgment in the appeals by the U.K. Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) and Flynn Pharma Ltd. against a June 2018 Competition Appeal...more

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Digital platforms will soon face more regulatory scrutiny in Japan

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Big Tech as well as other global companies will likely have to modify their business models - Japan’s growing e-Commerce market continues to benefit both businesses, which are able to reach more customers and reduce...more

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Is Amazon The Next Big Case? – GAFA Under Antitrust Scrutiny

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Margrethe Vestager, head of the European Union’s Directorate-General for Competition (“DG Comp”), recently announced that the EU was once again investigating actions of a high-profile tech company – Amazon....more

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Big in Europe? What Multinationals Need to Know about Competing on the Continent

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With its recent imposition of a record 4.3 billion EUR fine against Google for abuse of dominant position, the European Commission may have cemented its reputation for taking an aggressive enforcement stance against US tech...more

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"European Court of Justice Rules on Retroactive Loyalty Rebates"

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On October 6, 2015, the European Court of Justice (the ECJ) issued an important judgment clarifying the application of Article 102 to retroactive loyalty rebates (Post Danmark AS, Case C 23/14). The case, which had been...more

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