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JANUARY – MARCH 2025: KEY THEMES AND TAKEAWAYS - UNITED STATES - FTC Loses Vertical Challenge to Tempur Sealy/Mattress Firm On July 2, 2024, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filed suit in federal court seeking to block...more
The Procurement Act 2023 launches a new, post-Brexit procurement regime, with many significant changes to the predecessor regime. It is now even more important for a company to challenge promptly a UK public authority’s...more
The Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 ("DMCC Act") provides for two regimes for the enforcement of consumer law: a civil court-based regime, under which the Competition and Markets Authority (“CMA”) and...more
In February, the Japan Fair Trade Commission announced that it will hire additional staff to enforce the country's new Act on Promotion of Competition for Specified Smartphone Software. The Act “aim[s] to foster innovation...more
UK CMA Imposes Fines for Information Exchanges Affecting Labour Markets - On 21 March 2025, the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced fines on four UK broadcast and production companies for engaging in...more
Overall, the number of immunity/leniency cases decided in 2024 (21) was broadly in line with 2023 (19) and 2022 (18). While certain antitrust authorities anecdotally continue to highlight the impact of leniency programs on...more
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
Continuing the trend from 2023, 2024 saw an increase by regulators across the globe in activity in relation to labor markets, with new investigations being opened in all sectors of the economy, enforcement action, and updates...more
Given the recent unanimous decision by a UK appellate court that Ericsson’s injunction efforts based on standard-essential patents (“SEPs”) were, essentially by their very nature, “hold-up” and “coercion” that violated...more
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
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
Welcome to the March issue of Blakes Competitive Edge, a monthly publication of the Blakes Competition, Antitrust & Foreign Investment group. Blakes Competitive Edge provides an overview of recent developments in Canadian...more
As we look back on 2024, one thing is clear: Antitrust enforcement in the technology sector continued at a steady pace, with global agencies showing no signs of relenting in their scrutiny of Big Tech companies....more
Key provisions of the UK's Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 will come into force on 6 April 2025 What's happening? The UK government has published the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024...more
Now out: our latest global trends in merger control enforcement report - In this tenth edition of our annual report, we analyze data for 2024 from 26 jurisdictions to reveal the latest trends in global merger control and...more
On 21 February 2025, the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) unanimously dismissed Stellantis's claim for €770 million in damages against Autoliv, a leading global manufacturer of automotive occupant safety systems ("OSS"),...more
The UK government recently issued its draft strategic steer to the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), in which it sets out its expectations for the CMA’s enforcement actions in relation to the government’s primary...more
Tech sector deals are seeing rising mortality rates. AI partnerships are moving up the authorities’ agenda for scrutiny and enforcement. Overall, however, antitrust intervention in 2024 once again focused on transport, energy...more
Searching for ways to achieve its promised ‘growth’ and productivity ambitions, the UK government turned its gaze on the UK regulators around October last year, with the UK prime minister promising to “rip up the bureaucracy...more
The Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 is set to transform the UK’s consumer protection regime by empowering the Competition and Markets Authority to impose penalties of up to 10% of global group turnover for...more
Welcome to our Litigation 2024 Year in Review and 2025 Outlook. In this report, we examine the legal trends that have shaped the commercial landscape in Europe and the UK and explore how these developments are likely to...more
There is new leadership at the European Commission (EC) where Teresa Ribera took over from Margrethe Vestager as the Commissioner for competition in December 2024 as well as at the UK Competition Markets Authority (CMA) where...more
On 5 January 2025, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced the trial of an artificial intelligence (AI) tool designed to detect collusion in public procurement by scanning and analysing bidding data at scale....more
The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has published a suite of guidance documents that set out how it intends to exercise its powers under the Digital Markets, Competition, and Consumers Act (Act). The Act, which...more
The United Kingdom’s (UK’s) Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 (the Act) expands the Competition and Markets Authority’s (CMA’s) jurisdiction in merger control, regulates major tech platforms with “strategic...more