Hiromitsu Miyakawa

EU Readies New Regulation of Foreign Subsidies That "Distort the EU Market"

European Union - July 19 2022 As set out in our prior White Paper, in 2020, the European Commission ("Commission") issued a draft regulation to remedy perceived internal European…

Kaarli H. Eichhorn, Craig A. Waldman, Peter J. Wang, Philipp Werner, Qiang Xue

Japanese Court Holds That a Customer-Review Algorithm Change Abused "Superior Bargaining Power"

Japan - June 28 2022 In a novel decision, the Tokyo District Court held that a restaurant review platform's unilateral change to its rankings algorithm violated a Japanese…

Germany Adopts New Competition Rules for Tech Platforms

European Union, Germany, United Kingdom - January 23 2021 In Short The Development: The Bundestag, the German legislature, amended Germany's antitrust laws to include special competition rules for digital…

Jürgen Beninca, Michael A. Gleason, Carsten T. Gromotke, Laurent De Muyter, Prudence J Smith

Global Merger Control Update 2020

Global - February 26 2020 Merger control enforcement continues to surge around the world and reaches well beyond the largest and traditionally most active enforcers (e.g…

Serge Clerckx, Henry de la Barre d'Erquelinnes, Michael H. Knight

Japan Legal Update | Vol. 46, April 2019

Japan - April 24 2019 On March 12, 2019, the Japanese Cabinet approved and submitted to the Diet a bill ("Bill") to amend the Act on Prohibition of Private Monopolization…

Perri Blitz, Kyosuke Katahira, Benjamin O. Lang, Yoshitake Masuda, Yuichiro Mori, Yuki Yoshida