Lexology PRO | European Union | 6 Mar 2024
DuckDuckGo, Epic Games and a slew of industry groups believe Google’s latest efforts to meet the imminent Digital Markets Act compliance deadline fail to adequately address the harms the regulation seeks to prevent.
Lexology PRO | European Union, Norway, United Kingdom | 5 Mar 2024
A slew of UK supermarkets including Asda, Iceland, Marks and Spencer and Ocado are seeking £675 million in damages against an alleged cartel of salmon producers.
Lexology PRO | Canada, Denmark, European Union, etc. | 4 Mar 2024
EU DPAs launch the 2024 Coordinated Implementation Framework, the UK ICO fines the UK MoD for a GDPR breach, and the US DOJ issues an executive order on national security – plus other key updates.
Lexology PRO | European Union, United Kingdom | 27 Feb 2024
Mastercard and a class representative seeking £10 billion in damages from the company have clashed on the ramifications of a decision by the UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal that seemingly undermines the factual basis of a key part of the claim.
Lexology PRO | European Union, Spain | 26 Feb 2024
The Spanish competition watchdog’s in-depth probe into Smurfit Kappa Bulgaria’s swoop of a smaller rival will feature novel analysis on the impact of rivals progressively exiting the market in recent years.
Lexology PRO | European Union, United Kingdom | 15 Feb 2024
Counsel to Visa says it’s “surprising” that merchants seeking damages over anticompetitive card fees claim certain charges are a by-object infringement, given they failed to claim such in the 50 years it has been on the European Commission's radar.
Lexology PRO | United Kingdom | 14 Feb 2024
Visa and Mastercard’s claims that the sky would have fallen in had they not imposed multilateral interchange fees is “simply not borne out by the evidence”, counsel to umbrella claimants has said.
Buddle Findlay | New Zealand | 2 Feb 2024
On 15 January 2024 the European Commission (the Commission) finalised its review of 11 existing adequacy decisions originally made under legislation…
Lexology PRO | European Union, Germany | 1 Feb 2024
The European Court of Justice has ended Scania’s six-year bid to overturn an €880.5 million trucks cartel fine, leaving the company vulnerable to further follow-on damages claims.
Lexology PRO | European Union, Germany, United Kingdom | 1 Feb 2024
DAF has settled follow-on damages claims brought by Deutsche Bahn and over 40 other entities seeking compensation from the EU trucks cartelist.