Daily Compliance News: April 25, 2025, The Trouble in Travel Edition
Daily Compliance News: April 24, 2025, The Made in Malaysia Edition
Fierce Competition Podcast | Below-Threshold Mergers: Global Antitrust Scrutiny
Fierce Competition Podcast | Takeaways From the Illumina-Grail Merger Challenge Saga
The EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive
The Informed Board Podcast | Will the EU’s Focus on Foreign Subsidies Make It More Difficult To Acquire European Businesses?
EU & UK Competition Law & Public Interest: Best Practices & New Challenges ahead
Nota Bene Episode 135: Europe Q3 Check In: Brexit, Data Protection, and Block Exemption Regulations with Oliver Heinisch
NGE On Demand: Personal Data Protection Travels: The New Standard Contractual Clause with John Koenigsknecht and David Wheeler
Nota Bene Episode 123: Europe Q2 Check In - Brexit Updates and Antitrust Laws in the Digital Economy with Oliver Heinisch
Nota Bene Episode 112: How Europe is Filling Enforcement Gaps for Digital Gatekeepers with Robert Klotz and Ciara Barbu-O’Connor
Nota Bene Episode 106: The Corporate Investor Movement Toward Environmental, Social, and Governmental Policies with Allison Troianos and Ariel Yehezkel
Nota Bene Episode 102: Examining European Union State Aid in the Face of COVID and Brexit with Jacques Derenne and Robert Klotz
What's Next after the Schrems II Decision of ECJ
Compliance Perspectives: The End of the Privacy Shield
Nota Bene Episode 89: European Q3 Check In - Merger Clearance and Data Protection Court Rulings and Brexit Updates with Oliver Heinisch
Podcast: ESMA Report: Undue Pressure on Companies
Nota Bene Episode 65: European Check In: Environmental Protection, Privacy Regulations, Digital Market Definition, and Brexit with Oliver Heinisch
Nota Bene Episode 55: Updates on the European Commission and Brexit with Isabelle Rahman and Oliver Heinisch
Jones Day Talks: EU's New Foreign Direct Investment Regulations Eye Specific Sectors
On 2 July 2025, the Court of Justice of the European Union (General Court) clarified that simply "informing" the authorities of a proposed concentration isn’t enough to kick off the 15-working-days time limit under which a...more
COMPETITION - Action brought on 21 May 2025 - Condor Flugdienst Vs. Commission (Case T-320/25) Re: annulment of Commission Decision C(2024) 4729 final declaring a concentration compatible with the internal market and the...more
Antitrust and Competition - The European Commission Imposes First Digital Markets Act Fines on Apple and Meta - On 23 April 2025, the European Commission (Commission) has issued its first ever fines under the Digital Markets...more
Like in the United States, competition enforcement in Europe is in flux. The European Commission has appointed new leadership (Teresa Ribera) and set new policy directives. While one could not be blamed for focusing all...more
“Disruption” is business-speak for innovative companies or technologies that challenge the status quo. Now more than ever, it seems like disruption is a constant theme in today’s business and regulatory environment,...more
The first quarter of 2025 brought a surge of high-profile merger activity in the technology and artificial intelligence (AI) space, offering an early test of how antitrust regulators under the new Trump administration will...more
Our review of the European Commission’s current approach to merger enforcement in chemical, steel and other basic industries—and thoughts on how to plan transactions accordingly. Industrial companies with operations in...more
The European Commission (EC) is conducting a comprehensive review of its Merger Guidelines, supported by a broad public consultation. The review aims to determine whether the current framework remains suitable for assessing...more
The European Commission has launched a public consultation seeking feedback on its ongoing review of the 20+-year-old EU merger guidelines....more
On 8 May 2025, the European Commission (“the Commission”) launched two public consultations as part of its comprehensive review of the guidelines for horizontal and non-horizontal mergers. ...more
The European Commission has launched a public consultation of its Horizontal and Non-Horizontal Merger Guidelines. Framed as a "comprehensive and ambitious" review, the Commission is exploring how to incorporate wider policy...more
For decades, California enforcers and politicians have argued for state-level antitrust enforcement activity at a level commensurate with California’s $4.1 trillion economy, the largest state economy in the United States....more
A key objective outlined in Commissioner Ribera’s mission letter is the modernization of EU competition policy, including the framework employed by the European Commission (EC) to assess the competitive impact of mergers. In...more
The firm is pleased to distribute the European Antitrust Bimonthly Bulletin, which breaks down the major antitrust developments in Europe in the past two months into concise and actionable takeaways....more
Our Antitrust Team examines the European Commission’s first conditional merger clearance under the Foreign Subsidies Regulation (FSR) and how it provides key insights into how foreign financial contributions impact...more
In a merger control environment that has been steadily evolving over the past several years, M&A parties can less and less rely solely on traditional notification thresholds to assess filing obligations and antitrust risk....more
COMPETITION - Prior notification of a concentration (Case M.11950 - Salling Group / Rimi Baltic) - Non-opposition to a notified concentration (Case M.11899 - SRI / Dunlop Tire Business)...more
COMPETITION - Summary of Commission Decision of 23 October 2024 relating to a proceeding under Article 101 of the TFEU (Case AT.40401 - Second-hand Rolling Stock) - Opinion of the advisory committee onrestrictive practices...more
COMPETITION - Prior notification of a concentration (Case M.11937 - Warburg Pincus / Berkshire Partners / Triumph Group ) - Prior notification of a concentration (Case M.11812 - Methanex / OCI Methanol Business)...more
COMPETITION - Opinion of Advocate General Rantos of 27 March 2025 in Case C-2/24 P; Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd, Cephalon Inc. Vs. European Commission...more
COMPETITION - Opinion of Advocate General Medina of 03 April 2025 in Case C-21/24; CP Vs. Nissan Iberia, S.A. Re: Reference for a preliminary ruling - Competition - Principle of effectiveness - Compensation for harm caused...more
The United Kingdom’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has approved the proposed merger of American Express Global Business Travel Group (Amex GBT) and Carlson Wagonlit Travel (CWT Holdings LLC), a global travel and...more
COMPETITION - Prior notification of a concentration (Case M.11929 - MET / Mega)... Prior notification of a concentration (Case M.11828 - BNPP / Axa IM)...more
COMPETITION - Commission clears acquisition of SURU by GROHE and VKB (M.11897) - Midday Express...more
COMPETITION - Agenda for: Working Party on Competition - 10 April 2025 Request for a preliminary ruling from the Augstākā tiesa (Senāts)... of 9 January 2025 – Jelgavas valstspilsētas pašvaldība Vs. Konkurences padome...more