Podcast: Illinois Tool Works Inc. & Subsidiaries v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue
On 6 October 2021, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU or the Court) issued a judgment in case C-882/19 following a request for a preliminary ruling by the Court of Appeal of Barcelona (the Referring Court). ...more
On January 27, 2021, the Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) issued an important ruling regarding an investment fund’s liability for the cartel behaviour of an affiliate. The CJEU confirmed that an investment fund...more
The European Court of Justice (the "ECJ") has confirmed1 the EU General Court’s (and the European Commission’s) finding that Goldman Sachs was jointly liable for the conduct of a former subsidiary, Prysmian, which the...more
On Oct. 28, 2020, the European Court of Justice ruled on one of the aspects of the proceedings relating to the power cable cartel, for which the main European, Japanese and South Korean manufacturers were fined a total of...more
The bill to amend the Anti-Monopoly Act (the "AMA"), that includes the enhancement of a surcharge (i.e., administrative fine), has passed on June 19, 2019.1 It will be effective no later than from December 25, 2020. The...more
The Development: The European Court of Justice ("ECJ") ruled that parent companies and economic successors can be held liable for damages caused by a subsidiary or acquired company in cartel cases. This significantly broadens...more
In a landmark judgment (Case C-724/17, Vantaa vs. Skanska Industrial Solutions and others), the European Court of Justice (ECJ) decided on March 14, 2019 that companies cannot use corporate restructuring to escape their...more
The General Court of the European Union recently held, in Goldman Sachs v. Commission, that purely financial investors such as investment funds may be held jointly and severally liable for competition law violations...more
The Middle Ages are regarded as the golden age of the kin liability (Sippenhaft) in Germany. According to the principle of kin liability, family members had to stand up for the actions of their relatives, regardless of...more
On 16 June 2016, the Court of Justice of the EU (“CJEU”) dismissed appeals against the General Court’s (“GC”) rulings on the calcium carbide cartel. The GC had upheld the European Commission’s (“Commission”) EUR 61 million...more
A judgment of the EU General Court in March 2011, upheld on appeal by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) on 22 January 2013, is potentially good news for parent companies. Where both a parent company and its...more