With Parliamentary elections and a series of national votes in 2024, the EU is entering a pivotal period in its history. In this study, ‘Global business in a changing Europe’, we speak to corporate leaders across the world to...more
3/22/2024
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Artificial Intelligence ,
Asset Management ,
Capital Markets ,
Competition ,
Corporate Governance ,
Energy Sector ,
Environmental Social & Governance (ESG) ,
EU ,
European Commission ,
Global Market ,
Greenhouse Gas Emissions ,
Investment ,
Investment Management ,
Investors ,
Merger Controls ,
Mergers ,
Net Zero ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Risk Management ,
Sustainability
This newsletter is a summary of the antitrust developments we think are most interesting to your business. Dirk Arts, co-head of the global antitrust group and partner based in Brussels, is our editor this month. He has...more
3/8/2024
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Antitrust Provisions ,
Antitrust Violations ,
Competition ,
Enforcement Actions ,
EU ,
European Commission ,
Merger Controls ,
Mergers ,
Popular ,
UK ,
UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)
On 22 March 2023, the Belgian Competition Authority (the BCA) announced that it had opened an ex officio investigation into an alleged abuse of dominance by Proximus, the incumbent Belgian telecom operator, in the context of...more
The EU is concerned about subsidies granted by non-EU countries that could distort competition in EU markets. In May 2021 it published a proposal for a regulation (the Foreign Subsidies Regulation) that would introduce,...more
The Belgian Chamber of Representatives recently approved a draft law transposing EU Directive 2019/1 to empower the competition authorities of the Member States to be more effective enforcers and to ensure the proper...more
U.S. FTC merger enforcement gathers pace n-
This month we have seen a flurry of activity on the merger control front from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Grabbing the headlines is the announcement that the FTC...more
Now that the UK is on the path to an “in-out” referendum on 23 June, this paper looks at the impact of a Brexit on competition policy and enforcement in the UK, and generally in the European Union (“EU”).
EU competition...more
3/30/2016
/ Competition ,
EU ,
EUMR ,
European Commission ,
Merger Controls ,
Mergers ,
OECD ,
Private Right of Action ,
State Aid ,
UK ,
UK Brexit ,
UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)