04 Jan, 2024 A new year for the Tech Sector: Tech Legal Outlook 2024 and Fintech & Payments Legal Outlook 2024 By Clare Murray Jennifer Calver Elaine Choo Laura Onyeocha +1 more... Show less In case you missed it, we launched our annual legal outlook series last month. Our global cross-disciplinary and multi-jurisdictional...
23 Nov, 2023 Competition Regulation and Digital Markets - Our 5 Themes in 5 Minutes Report By Verity Egerton-Doyle William Leslie Arthur Peng John Eichlin Jonathan Ford +2 more... Show less In 2023, competition-based regulation of digital markets continued to evolve at pace. The EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) came into force,...
14 Sep, 2023 DMA Insight #9: The designated few – no surprises and a few decisions still in the air following DMA designations By William Leslie Lodewick Prompers Pablo Moro Valbuena As the summer slowly comes to its end, the European Commission keeps speeding up to put flesh on the DMA’s bones. Who are the new...
18 Jul, 2023 DMA Insight #7: More bricks in the wall: the DMA compliance report and merger notification form By William Leslie As Europe slips into Summer break, the Commission has been putting the final administrative touches to its procedures under its new...
26 Apr, 2023 Issues for Boards 2023: Sailing into the wind with digital regulation and ChatGPT By Jennifer Calver Boards face many challenges as they steer their companies through times of economic, geopolitical and technological change. Each year,...
18 Apr, 2023 DMA Insight #6: The final Implementing Regulation has been adopted — A refined access to file but few changes overall By William Leslie After a public consultation run at lightning speed over Christmas, the European Commission adopted the Implementing Regulation for the...
10 Mar, 2023 DMA Insight #5: DMA Workshops — Interoperability and app stores on the menu By William Leslie Sudheera Koduru Simon Graff As previously reported, the European Commission held its second and third DMA workshops this week and last. They dealt with the...
17 Jan, 2023 DMA Insight #4: Out with the old, in with the new: The Directorate for DMA enforcement is here as well as the next enforcement workshop By William Leslie After an internal reshuffling within DG COMP, the directorate ‘Markets and Cases IV: Digital Platforms’ is nearing its final set up. It...
12 Jan, 2023 A new year and three new reports for the Tech Sector: Tech Legal Outlook 2023, Fintech Legal Outlook 2023 and Crypto & DeFi By Jennifer Calver Clare Murray As the tech sector faces up to big challenges in 2023, our global cross disciplinary tech and fintech teams have produced three new...
11 Jan, 2023 Linklaters responds to the European Commission’s consultation on the Draft DMA Implementing Regulation By William Leslie Linklaters has contributed to the European Commission’s public consultation on the procedural aspects and implementation of the Digital...
13 Dec, 2022 DMA Insights Series #2: Putting flesh on the DMA’s bones: draft Implementing Regulation out for feedback By William Leslie Gerwin Van Gerven Pierre Zelenko The EU's Digital Markets Act's long-awaited draft implementing regulation was published on Friday. This comes on the heels of the DMA’s...
07 Dec, 2022 DMA Insight #1: Timeline for the Digital Markets Act By William Leslie Federico Dante De Falco The European Commission’s recently introduced Digital Markets Act (DMA) is set to reshape how digital businesses operate in Europe and...
02 Nov, 2022 Metaverse series #8: Metaverse, beware: Competition law is versatile, and the EU's DMA is ‘future proof’ By Violette Grac-Aubert Erasmia Petousi We looked at the metaverse through an antitrust lens in our previous post earlier this year (spoiler alert: the metaverse is not immune...
21 Oct, 2022 Another bullet to dodge for tech M&A? EU Advocate General opines unreviewed deals can be pursued as abuse of dominance By Verity Egerton-Doyle Kim Rust Acquisitions which escape merger control can be tackled by abuse of dominance enforcement, according to a recent non-binding opinion by...
08 Sep, 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...
02 Sep, 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...