Nov 20, 2023 DMU Insights #7: Back to school (Parliament) for the DMCC – what’s changed? By Verity Egerton-Doyle Juliane Guderian James Hunter After a summer “holiday”, the UK’s Digital Markets, Competition & Consumers (DMCC) Bill is now back before Parliament. The Bill gives...
Jun 14, 2023 "We need to talk": European Commission fires break-up warning shot in Google AdTech investigation By William Leslie Eoin O'Reilly The European Commission’s announcement that it will likely be necessary for Google to break up its ad tech stack to prevent it from...
Nov 17, 2022 A digital regulation (re)awakening: CMA's Digital Markets Unit set to get legal standing By Linklaters Today's Autumn Statement from the UK Chancellor has been making headlines for many reasons, as the Government attempts to stabilize the...
Sep 08, 2022 Summer’s Top Antitrust Stories: Serving up your post-holiday cheat sheet By Linklaters Digital markets have stayed firmly on global antitrust authorities’ agendas over the summer months: Following several high-profile...
Sep 02, 2022 Head in the Clouds – The French Competition Authority launches a public consultation as part of its cloud sector inquiry By Daniel Green Anne Dos Following the opening of a sector-wide enquiry on the cloud sector in January 2022 (see our previous blog post), the French Competition...
Jul 28, 2022 Impasse at the border - reports that EU closes off digital policy coordination with the UK government over Northern Ireland Protocol disagreements By Harry Sorenson-Vaz In a potential blow to international cooperation on the regulation of digital markets, it has been reported that the European Commission...
Jul 21, 2022 Metaverse series #3: Looking at metaverse(s) with antitrust (3D) glasses By Violette Grac-Aubert As we identified in our Tech Legal Outlook 2022, and further explored in our Mid-Year Update, the metaverse is the word on everyone’s...
Jul 14, 2022 More tech mergers set for EU review after court endorses Commission’s almost unlimited jurisdiction By Verity Egerton-Doyle Annamaria Mangiaracina On Wednesday, the General Court of the European Union handed down an important decision that endorses the European Commission’s...
Jul 01, 2022 Regulating digital markets - the outlook for antitrust reforms By William Leslie The increasingly interventionist approach to regulating the digital economy has been building over several years. 2022 has seen, however,...
Jun 27, 2022 What has been the impact of the UK’s foreign investment regime? By Linklaters Almost five months have passed since the UK’s National Security and Investment Act 2021 (NSIA) took effect, introducing a hybrid...
Jun 23, 2022 Abuse of dominance and related rights – French Competition Authority accepts commitments proposed by Google By Violette Grac-Aubert Anne Dos On 21 June, in its decision n°22-D-13, the French Competition Authority (FCA) has accepted commitments proposed by Google and has...
Jun 13, 2022 Platforms and publishers: Rebalancing the relationship through an Australian style principles-based code? By Kim Rust While the timing for legislation to give the CMA’s Digital Markets Unit (DMU) a legislative footing and additional powers is uncertain,...
May 10, 2022 Has the UK Digital Markets Unit regime become a damp squib? By Linklaters While the UK was previously at the forefront of attempts to regulate digital markets following publication of the oft-cited Furman Review...
Apr 20, 2022 How to spend it – US Antitrust Agencies outline enforcement agenda for budget increases By John Eichlin Jarrett Field US antitrust enforcement agencies are expecting a sizable budget increase for fiscal year 2023 to promote “vigorous marketplace...
Apr 07, 2022 UK's CMA fires warning shot for further probes into tech By Linklaters As we anticipated, the CMA has confirmed that it will continue its scrutiny of digital markets while it awaits legislation to place its...
Mar 28, 2022 Tech bucks the trend of the recent antitrust hibernation – and now spring has sprung By Juliane Guderian Global competition investigations into tech giants have proliferated across the globe, and M&A in the tech industry is being given a...