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Cooperate, protect, and challenge: Responding to dawn raids conducted by EU competition authorities

McDermott Will & Schulte on 8/13/2025

Dawn raids conducted by antitrust authorities are stressful events. Among other issues, the ensuing investigations consume significant time and effort and often result in high fines for the companies involved. It is therefore...more

The Long and Winding Road: Two Decades of Antitrust Enforcement in Spain

White & Case LLP on 8/1/2025

"Competition forces you to evolve. When everything is easy, you don't improve". ― Rafael Nadal Parera, 1st Marquis of Llevant de Mallorca Introduction - Over the past two decades, Spain's competition enforcement journey...more

Europe Daily News, 04 to 07 July 2025

Mayer Brown on 7/9/2025

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

Class Actions: The evolving landscape

White & Case LLP on 6/17/2025

The global class action landscape continues to evolve. There are more collective actions across Europe than ever before, and the implementation of the EU Directive on "Representative actions for the protection of the...more

Bulletin Concurrence XIV - Paris | Janvier ● Février ● Mars ● Avril 2025

McDermott Will & Schulte on 6/9/2025

1. CONTENTIEUX EPILOGUE DE L’AFFAIRE DES COMPOTES - Par un arrêt en date du 8 janvier 2025, la Cour de cassation a mis un point final à la saga du cartel des compotes en rejetant les pourvois formés contre l’arrêt de la...more

The Fundamental Importance of Gathering Sufficient Evidence to Carry Out Competition Dawn Raids – Part II

Mayer Brown on 5/6/2025

Article 20 of Regulation N°1/2003 enables the European Commission ("Commission") to inspect undertakings when it suspects potential infringements of competition rules might have occurred. These unannounced inspections (called...more

Court of Appeal’s decision enables Trucks class action to proceed in the Competition Appeal Tribunal

Hogan Lovells on 3/7/2025

In a reasoned order in January 2025, the Court of Appeal refused DAF Trucks permission to appeal against certification in the Trucks collective proceedings, deferring to the discretion of the Competition Appeal Tribunal in...more

Loyalty rebates: a final word from the European Court of Justice in Intel?

A&O Shearman on 11/4/2024

In May 2009, the European Commission (EC) fined Intel EUR1.06 billion for abusing its dominant position in the x86 microprocessor market (CPUs). The EC concluded that Intel had granted anticompetitive loyalty rebates to...more

Plaintiffs Alleging Per Se Group Boycott Win Reversal In Ninth Circuit

A&O Shearman on 10/1/2024

On September 17, 2024, a unanimous panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals granted an appeal from a group of professional swimmers and the International Swimming League (“ISL”) (together, “Plaintiffs”) in their ongoing...more

Bulletin Concurrence XI | Janvier ● Février ● Mars 2024

McDermott Will & Schulte on 4/29/2024

1. CONTENTIEUX - NON-RESPECT DES ENGAGEMENTS : GOOGLE SANCTIONNÉE À HAUTEUR DE 250 MILLIONS DANS L’AFFAIRE DES DROITS VOISINS - Par la décision n°24-D-03 du 15 mars 2024, Google est sanctionnée par l’Autorité de la...more

Bulletin Concurrence VIII - Paris │ AVRIL ● MAI ● JUIN 2023

McDermott Will & Schulte on 7/27/2023

1. CONTENTIEUX - PUBLICITÉ EN LIGNE : MESURES CONSERVATOIRES IMPOSÉES À META - Par une décision du 4 mai 2023, l’Autorité de la concurrence (ci-après l’ « Autorité ») a prononcé des mesures conservatoires à l’encontre...more

Bulletin Concurrence VI - Paris │ Octobre ● Novembre ● Decembre 2022

McDermott Will & Schulte on 2/16/2023

1. CONTENTIEUX - ACTION EN FOLLOW-ON : ABSENCE DE RÉPARATION POUR LES SOCIÉTÉS DU GROUPE COLAS DANS L’AFFAIRE DU CARTEL DES CAMIONS - Dans un jugement remarqué du 27 octobre 2022, le tribunal de commerce de Lyon a...more

Lessons from the EU General Court’s recent rejections of two appeals of merger prohibitions (Wieland, Thyssenkrupp)

White & Case LLP on 9/19/2022

On 18 May and 22 June 2022, the EU General Court upheld two European Commission prohibition decisions. Both judgments endorsed the European Commission's assessment of the mergers at issue, recognising a broad margin of...more

Bulletin Concurrence IV - Paris │ Avril ● Mai ● Juin 2022

McDermott Will & Schulte on 7/26/2022

1. CONTENTIEUX - PREMIÈRE DÉCISION D’ENGAGEMENTS DE META - Par une décision du 16 juin 2022, l’Autorité de la concurrence (ADLC) a rendu obligatoires les engagements proposés par Meta, qui marquent, à notre connaissance, ...more

Google Adwords : la Cour d'appel de Paris marque ses distances avec l'Autorité de la concurrence

McDermott Will & Schulte on 3/30/2022

Le 11 mars 2022, la Cour d’appel de Paris a infirmé dans son intégralité un jugement rendu le 31 mai 2019 par le Tribunal de commerce de Paris, qui avait condamné Google à indemniser un annonceur, la société Ulysse Service («...more

EU Competition Bulletin I - Septembre 2021

McDermott Will & Schulte on 11/10/2021

NON-RESPECT D’ENGAGEMENTS DEVANT L’ADLC : UN SIGNAL FORT DE LA COUR D’APPEL DE PARIS - Faisant suite à la décision n°20-D-07 du 7 avril 2020 de l’Autorité de la concurrence (« ADLC ») condamnant le GIE PMU à une amende de...more

Intellectual Property Bulletin - Fall 2018

Fenwick & West LLP on 10/31/2018

In This Issue - Gender Diversity in Patenting: Current Landscape and Recommendations - The gender gap in patenting is a current challenge that companies face. While this issue seems pervasive, companies and lawyers can...more

In Principle: 10 Things Authorised Firms Need to Know for 2018 – The World of Financial Regulation as the UK Prepares to Exit the...

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 1/25/2018

There is much for authorised firms to consider in the year ahead. Firms have been through the intensive period of the enactment of the second Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II), but must now step up their...more

General Court Confirms that the Commission May Rely on Lawfully Seized Recordings Even if Made Unlawfully by a Third Party

McDermott Will & Schulte on 9/29/2016

On 8 September 2016 the General Court (“GC”) dismissed Heiploeg’s appeal against the European Commission’s (“Commission”) decision in Shrimps (AT.39633) and confirmed that the Commission may rely on recordings seized lawfully...more

Antitrust and Competition Newsletter - February 2013

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP on 2/8/2013

In This Issue: - A Modern Look at the Nine ‘No-Nos’ of Patent Licensing Under U.S. Antitrust Law: The First Four ‘No-Nos’ - Supreme Court Grants Cert. in Watson Reverse Payment Settlement Case - 7th Circuit...more

REGULATORY: EU Competition Law: The Cost of Compliance – Breaking Seals in European Commission Investigations By Suzanne Rab

King & Spalding on 12/17/2012

The Court of Justice of the EU (“Court of Justice”) has dismissed an appeal by the German energy company E.ON Energie AG (“E.ON”) against a lower court’s judgment upholding a European Commission (“Commission”) decision...more

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