2024 saw a significant increase in the total fines imposed in abuse of dominance cases compared to 2023, reversing a trend of decline in recent years. The rise in fine volumes was spread across all regions of the world, with...more
Digital regulation continues to be at the forefront of regulator concerns, as authorities focus on technology companies through traditional antitrust tools and new digital markets regimes. Further legislation and guidance is...more
In 2024, regulators across the globe increasingly acknowledged the need for a nuanced enforcement approach to balancing support for sustainability initiatives against traditional antitrust enforcement and countering the risk...more
3/21/2025
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Competition ,
Environmental Policies ,
Environmental Social & Governance (ESG) ,
EU ,
European Commission ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Greenwashing ,
Popular ,
Sustainability ,
UK
Overall, global fines for cartel activity in 2024 (USD602.5 million) were the lowest recorded for several years, and significantly lower than the 2023 total (USD1.9billion). Unlike in previous years, 2024 saw relatively few...more
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
3/20/2025
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Antitrust Provisions ,
Antitrust Violations ,
Cartels ,
Competition ,
Enforcement Actions ,
EU ,
European Commission ,
Fines ,
Popular ,
Unfair Competition
2024 saw a continued trend of heightened dawn raid activity by antitrust authorities across the globe. Of the 31 jurisdictions surveyed, 24 (77%) confirmed that the regulator had carried out dawn raids during the course of...more
3/19/2025
/ Antitrust Violations ,
Bid Rigging ,
Competition ,
Competition Authorities ,
Dawn Raids ,
Enforcement Actions ,
EU ,
European Commission ,
Regulatory Authority ,
UK ,
UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)
A visual breakdown of the geographical trends in antitrust enforcement fines around the world.
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At the country level, antitrust enforcement fines in Europe were USD2.3 billion, a significant increase from...more
3/19/2025
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Antitrust Provisions ,
Asia Pacific ,
Cartels ,
Competition ,
Dispute Resolution ,
Enforcement Actions ,
EU ,
European Commission ,
Fines ,
Mergers ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
United States
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
3/19/2025
/ Abuse of Dominance ,
Antitrust Provisions ,
Antitrust Violations ,
Artificial Intelligence ,
Asia Pacific ,
Big Tech ,
Cartels ,
Competition ,
Damages ,
Digital Assets ,
Digital Markets Strategy ,
Dispute Resolution ,
Enforcement Actions ,
EU ,
European Commission ,
Fines ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Regulatory Reform ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
South Africa ,
Sustainability ,
Technology Sector ,
UK ,
United States
Chief executive of the U.K. Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), Sarah Cardell, has announced that the authority will launch a review of its approach to merger remedies in early 2025.
Most notably, this will include a...more
This newsletter is a summary of the antitrust developments we think are most interesting to your business. Philip Mansfield, partner and co-head of Allen & Overy's global antitrust group, is our editor this month. He has...more
4/5/2023
/ Acquisitions ,
Antitrust Provisions ,
Cartels ,
Competition ,
Competition Authorities ,
EU ,
European Commission ,
Merger Controls ,
Mergers ,
UK ,
UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)
After 13 years before the EU courts, on 26 January 2022 the General Court (GC) partially annulled the European Commission’s decision finding that Intel abused its dominant position by excluding its main rival from a computer...more
This newsletter is a summary of the antitrust developments we think are most interesting to your business....more
This newsletter is our take on the antitrust developments we think are most interesting to your business. Philip Mansfield, partner based in London, is our editor this month....more
The UK has well-established domestic antitrust and merger control regimes, enforced by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA).
As an EU Member State, however, where a deal met EU merger control thresholds the CMA – in...more
The European Commission (Commission) has the power to order companies suspected of engaging in anti-competitive behaviour to stop their conduct pending a final decision in an investigation – so-called “interim measures”....more
The European Commission (Commission) has the power to order companies suspected of engaging in anti-competitive behaviour to stop their conduct pending a final decision in an investigation – so-called “interim measures”. The...more
On 5 April 2019, the European Commission (EC) published its report on the EU syndicated lending sector, “EU loan syndication and its impact on competition in credit markets” (the Report). The Report has now been anticipated...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)
On 5 December 2014 the Commission’s Directive on rules governing actions for damages for infringements of competition law (the Damages Directive) was published. Member States will now have two years plus twenty days (until...more