9/17/2025 6:26:49 AM Key Takeaways from LES seminar: Licensing Negotiation Groups (LNGs) in Standard Essential Patent Licensing By Stephan Waldheim Following the European Commission's recent guidance on Automotive Licensing Negotiation Groups (ALNGs) and building on the...
9/17/2025 6:23:33 AM Buyer beware: Nordic competition authorities expand merger control powers with a focus on technology, healthcare and pharmaceuticals – same goal, different rules By Morten Nissen Katia Duncker Petteri Metsä-Tokila Alexander Brøchner Maria Karpathakis Rakel Rosshagen +3 more... Show less Evolution of enforcement tools As markets evolve, competition authorities have identified perceived weaknesses in their enforcement...
7/15/2025 6:17:01 AM A Merger of New Ideas and Concepts – the EU’s revision of its Merger Control Guidelines By Morten Nissen Alexander Brøchner Nanna Krabbe Introduction The European Commission's (EC) launch of a comprehensive review of its merger guidelines in May 2025[1] represents a...
6/17/2025 6:33:23 AM German Federal Court of Justice Confirms Apple's Paramount Significance for Competition Across Markets By Stephan Waldheim Gitty Narymany Shandy The Cartel Senate of the German Federal Court of Justice (“Court”) confirmed a landmark decision by the German Federal Cartel Office...
6/17/2025 6:32:48 AM Court of Appeal Upholds CMA's Decision in Excessive Pricing Case By Peter Willis Flora McCarthy Introduction In a significant ruling for competition law enforcement in the pharmaceutical sector, the Court of Appeal has unanimously...
6/17/2025 6:30:11 AM All Bark, no Bite? Dutch Regulator Starts Investigation into Veterinary Sector By Joost van Roosmalen Pauline Kuipers Introduction Following conversations with stakeholders and a consumer complaint survey, the Netherlands Authority for Consumers &...
3/24/2025 2:23:50 PM Squeezed out: Pricing practices of a dominant undertaking found to effectively exclude competitors from the market By Morten Nissen The Danish Competition and Consumer Authority has on 29 January 2025 found that a Danish medical device company has abused its dominant...
2/18/2025 7:32:00 AM Denmark: DJ, please DO stop the Music By Morten Nissen Nanna Krabbe The Danish Maritime and Commercial Court has fined Ecit Account A/S (Ecit) DKK 20 million (approximately EUR 2.7 million) for its...
2/18/2025 7:30:12 AM Below-Threshold Merger Scrutiny: The Belgian Competition Authority strikes again By Claire De Neve Baptist Vleeshouwers On 22 January 2025, the Prosecutor General of the Belgian Competition Authority (BCA) initiated an investigation into Dossche Mills'...
2/11/2025 11:45:37 AM ACM kicks off 5 market investigations – why wait for a New Competition Tool? By Pauline Kuipers On 5 February 2025, the Dutch Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) announced that it will conduct five new general market...
1/10/2025 4:10:58 PM New Year - New Merger Control Rules By Alienor Troletti Ariane Le Strat Saskia King Emma Bermingham +1 more... Show less While discussion of the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 (“DMCCA”) has largely concentrated on the Competition and...
12/18/2024 8:00:12 AM Belgian Billiard Saga: Lessons for Tenders and Sports Federations By Baptist Vleeshouwers David Wouters On 20 November 2024, the Brussels Court of Appeal handed down its judgment in the appeal of the Royal Belgian Billiard Federation (RBBF)...
12/18/2024 8:00:02 AM Railway competition back on track: Dutch railway operator successfully fights negative railway capacity allocation decision By Janneke Kohlen Quirijn Mohr On 6 December, the Dutch Authority for Consumers and Markets ("ACM") published its decision in the dispute between Arriva Nederland and...
12/18/2024 8:00:01 AM The Danish Supreme Court and the European Commission set an important precedent on the interpretation of the VBER By Morten Nissen On 3 December 2024, the Danish Supreme Court overturned the judgment of the Eastern High Court and ruled in favour of the Danish...
12/18/2024 7:58:16 AM Hungary: Consumer Protection Highlights - What’s Changing as 2024 Wraps Up? By Gábor Kutai The final months of 2024 brought noteworthy developments in consumer protection in Hungary, ranging from efforts to curb misleading sales...
12/2/2024 1:56:19 PM Antitrust enforcement in labour markets By Bird & Bird On 28 November 2024, I had the opportunity to speak at the 16th Competition Law Congress organised in Warsaw by ‘Puls Biznesu’. During my...