After a summer “holiday”, the UK’s Digital Markets, Competition & Consumers (DMCC) Bill is now back before Parliament. The Bill gives...

The European Commission’s announcement that it will likely be necessary for Google to break up its ad tech stack to prevent it from...

Today's Autumn Statement from the UK Chancellor has been making headlines for many reasons, as the Government attempts to stabilize the...

Digital markets have stayed firmly on global antitrust authorities’ agendas over the summer months: Following several high-profile...

Following the opening of a sector-wide enquiry on the cloud sector in January 2022 (see our previous blog post), the French Competition...

In a potential blow to international cooperation on the regulation of digital markets, it has been reported that the European Commission...

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...

On Wednesday, the General Court of the European Union handed down an important decision that endorses the European Commission’s...

The increasingly interventionist approach to regulating the digital economy has been building over several years. 2022 has seen, however,...

Almost five months have passed since the UK’s National Security and Investment Act 2021 (NSIA) took effect, introducing a hybrid...

On 21 June, in its decision n°22-D-13, the French Competition Authority (FCA) has accepted commitments proposed by Google and has...

While the timing for legislation to give the CMA’s Digital Markets Unit (DMU) a legislative footing and additional powers is uncertain,...

While the UK was previously at the forefront of attempts to regulate digital markets following publication of the oft-cited Furman Review...

US antitrust enforcement agencies are expecting a sizable budget increase for fiscal year 2023 to promote “vigorous marketplace...

As we anticipated, the CMA has confirmed that it will continue its scrutiny of digital markets while it awaits legislation to place its...

Global competition investigations into tech giants have proliferated across the globe, and M&A in the tech industry is being given a...