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Global investment in AI surged to approximately USD 252 billion in 2024, representing a thirteen-fold increase since 2014. As AI technologies become deeply embedded across key economic sectors such as finance, manufacturing,...more
Recent developments have made navigating multinational antitrust merger reviews even more complex and replete with traps for the unwary. ...more
The US antitrust regulators continued to aggressively challenge transactions and associated Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) violations during the third quarter of 2024. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) litigated two merger...more
Competition authorities in the United States, the European Union, and the United Kingdom released a joint statement on competition in generative AI and other AI products, continuing the drumbeat that policymakers need to...more
On 23 July 2024, the European Commission, the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority, and the U.S. Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission issued a joint statement setting out their commitment to work together to...more
U.K.'s Competition Authority Sees Red on Unilever "Green" Claims, Launches Investigation - Consumer goods giant Unilever seeks to "mak[e] sustainable living commonplace." Now those aspirations are under review as the...more
The start of 2023 has been a busy one, with global antitrust agencies advancing investigations and challenging a number of technology acquisitions. Future antitrust enforcement could also be shaped by new digital market...more
On April 26, 2023, the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) blocked Microsoft’s $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard over concerns the deal “would alter the future of the fast-growing cloud gaming...more
European Union - In the EU, the EC is more likely to block a merger than in the past. In 2022, the EC issued two prohibition decisions compared to none in the full years 2021 and 2020. In the past ten years (2013 – 2022),...more
This newsletter is a summary of the antitrust developments we think are most interesting to your business. Dr René Galle, counsel based in Hamburg, is our editor this month (learn more about René in our Q&A feature at the end...more
On Tuesday, May 11, 2021, an international coalition of competition enforcement agencies including the Federal Trade Commission, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division, Offices of State Attorneys General,...more
This newsletter is a summary of the antitrust developments we think are most interesting to your business....more
JULY - SEPTEMBER 2020 UPDATE - UNITED STATES- Mergers and acquisitions in the United States appear to be bouncing back after a muted start to the year due to COVID-19. Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) filings in Q3 2020 were up...more
Competition regulators have shown their ability to act quickly and decisively in order to help allay the worst impacts of the coronavirus outbreak. Could these responses provide a template for achieving environmental and...more
The global spread of the novel coronavirus has disrupted everyday life all over the world and imposed significant difficulties on the business community. Antitrust merger reviews — and the authorities who conduct those...more