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JAN ROTH Kanarski studied in England after a fully bilingual education in Mexico City. From 2008 to 2011 he was part of the 'Mexico, the Americas and the World' bi-annual survey team, conducted by Mexico's Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, as a research assistant and translator, before leaving the team to pursue his post-graduate education. Jan studied Political Philosophy in Sheffield, focusing on issues of Democratic legitimacy and international relations. Jan is a Marketing Manager and Co-founder of 'Bizmoni', a company providing technological solutions and business training to online customers. Education: BA Modern History and Politics, University of Liverpool MA Political Philosophy, University of Sheffield.

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Learning From The Trucks Cartel: Mitigation
Subsidy Control Reviews: What Can I Challenge And Where Do I Issue?
Antitrust Matters Episode 13: Epic v. Apple Ninth Cir. Appeal…
Vertical Agreements & Restriction Of Competition By Object: What’s New In Europe?
Another Setback for the FTC in Microsoft and Activision Blizzard Proposed Merger
WomenAT Launches In South Africa: Connecting And Empowering Women Professionals
Lina Khan Faces An Inquisition
What Would Adam Smith Have Thought About Modern Cartel Policy, 300 Years After His Birth?
Why Instagram is taking on Twitter with Threads
Fixing the Global Digital Divide and Digital Access Gap
SEC Enforcement on Crypto Proves Regulation Can Work
Bank Of Japan Completes Proof Of Concept And Begins Pilot For Japanese CBDC
What The New York Department Of Financial Services Guidance Means For Stablecoins
Focus on Productivity, Not Technology
Zero Rating Is The Free Sample In The Internet Ice Cream Store
Generative AI And The Media Sector: Preliminary Thoughts On A Legal And Policy Agenda
Chile Takes First Steps Towards Regulation of Artificial Intelligence
Case C-211/22, Super Bock: The Binon (formalistic) Era Is Over, And Vertical Price-Fixing Is No Longer The Odd One Out
AI, Machine Learning And Big Data Laws And Regulations 2023
Transactions At Market Rates Can Still Confer An Advantage That Constitutes State aid (PART I)
Five Big Takeaways From Europe’s AI Act
A Return to Rentiership
Antitrust, Web3 And Blockchain Technology: A Quick Look Into The Refusal To Deal Theory As Exclusionary Conduct
The Three Challenges of AI Regulation
Can Computational Tools Revitalize Antitrust Enforcement?
Maintaining The Competitive Edge: Competition And Markets Authority Responds To The UK Government’s AI White Paper
Mythical Adverse Effect
The Role of the EU Courts in Competition Cases: A View from the Bar
Antitrust Regulators Should Be Careful Not to Shank the PGA-LIV Deal
Criminal Competition Act Amendments Come into Force June 23rd – Increased Fines and New Offences
When Chatbots Go Rogue
Criminal No-Poach Update: DOJ Seeks to Contain Fallout from Judgment of Acquittal
How Do We Best Govern AI?
Workforce Development Is A Crucial Part Of Digital Equity
AI Is Transforming How Business Is Done: What about Government?
Competition Concerns In The Age Of AI
EU Parliament’s AI Act Proposals Introduce New Obligations for Foundation Models and Generative AI
Discourse In Parliament: German Parties & Big Tech
Blog: A New Phase In Competition Oversight
The Case For Judge Tim Wu
The Future of Tech Bans
Biden Antitrust Agencies Bring Fewer Merger Enforcement Actions, but Attempt to Chill Deal Activity in Other Ways
The Impact of Algorithms on Competition and Competition Law
If the UK Wants to Remain a Tech Leader, It Needs Less Regulation, Not More
The Price Helix in Inframarginal Perspective
Economists Agree That Stronger Legal Liability for Online Platforms Would Reduce Disinformation
How To Handle Big Tech Acquisitions Under Uncertainty
Joseph Farrell: “Looking at More Evidence in Antitrust”
CHATGPT In The Public Sector – Should It Be Banned?
The 11TH Amendment To The ARC and Germany’s New Competition Tool
Draft Regulation – The EU Commission Proposes A New Framework For The Licensing Of Standard Essential Patents (“SEPs”)
How Startup Attorneys Create Value and Engineer Exits
Subsidy Control Reviews: Proportionality With A Light Touch
From Guidance to Guidelines: My Presentation On Exclusionary Abuses
Are Hospital Acquisitions with COPA Authorization Exempt from HSR Pre-Merger Notification?
How AI Will Transform the 2024 Elections
Navigating the Online Platform Regulatory Revolution: Charting a New Course for Regulators
COMESA stats update: 367+ M&A deals, yielding a healthy revenue stream for the CCC’s operations
When Platforms Share Data, Detail Is Often Lacking
Ten Key Issues for Broadband Network Operating Agreements
China Proposes Draft Measures to Regulate Generative AI
AI Regulation Should Not Be a Blank Cheque for Government
Crypto Contagion – Managing Risk on Multiple Fronts
MiCA Finally Approved By the European Parliament: Here’s What You Need to Know
Why ChatGPT Lies In Some Languages More Than Others
UK Government Adopts a “Pro-Innovation” Approach to AI Regulation
Cloud Portability And Interoperability Under The EU Data Act: Dynamism Versus Equivalence
AI Doesn’t Need to Move Fast and Break Things
Banning ChatGPT Will Do More Harm Than Good
Antitrust for Kids: If You Write A Bad Note, Live with It: Document Preservation in Antitrust Cases
Quantum Technologies – A Regulatory Perspective
THE BLUE WALL: COMPETITION AND SUSTAINABILITY IN BERLIN
When Bad Antitrust Costs Lives: The Illumina/GRAIL Tragedy
Confusing Scarcity with Monopoly: 1803 Edition
The Market Abuse Regulation – Recent Updates
The Reasonable Competitive Conduct Standard for Antitrust
A Right To Commit? A New French Perspective On Antitrust Commitments
Golden Rules For Regulating Digital Public Goods
Safeguarding Personal Data Should Be Key To Competition Reform
Looking at Some of the Policy Issues for Media and Music Companies From the Expanding Use of Artificial Intelligence
Data, Context and Competition Policy
A Practical Look at Why A Criminal Antitrust Whistleblower Statute is Needed
ChatGPT And Competition Law: Initial Thoughts And Questions
How AI Will Revolutionize The Practice Of Law
An Early Guide To Policymaking On Generative AI
How A Fair Use Win Paved The Way For Competition From Valve’s Steam Deck
The DMA Is Coming. Here’s What It Will Mean For Mobile Gaming
Conference Debriefing (35): FIW SYMPOSIUM INNSBRUCK
DOJ Likely to Scrutinize Personal Device and Corporate Chat Policies of Investigation Targets
Silicon Valley Bank’s UK Unit Saved by HSBC in Rapid Overnight Rescue Deal
The Rule of Lenity and the Per Se Rule
Regulating ChatGPT and Other Large Generative AI Models
Why “The Jury’s Out” on the Government’s Case Against Google’s Ad Tech Monopoly
Procurement Centralisation, Digital Technologies And Competition
The Great Startup Sellout and the Rise of Oligopoly
COMESA Clarifies Merger Procedure
State Aid’s Stress Test
Meta/Within Merger Antitrust Opinion: Cutting Edge Tech, Vintage Precedent
Welcome To Chula Vista, Where Police Drones Respond To 911 Calls
Roundup of January 2023 Artificial Intelligence Developments
The Interplay Between The DMA And The AVMS Directive
No Pain, No Gain: FTC Loses Bid To Block Facebook’s Acquisition of Within
Demand For Surveillance Software Is Increasing – How To Get It Right
Why Banks Need to Prioritize Crypto Due Diligence and Monitoring
New York Department of Financial Services Issues Guidance on Cryptoasset Custody in Wake of Recent High-Profile Bankruptcies
A New Merger Tool Protects Consumers from Limits of the Cournot Effect
Meta Begins Selling Blue Badge On Instagram And Facebook As Zuckerberg Borrows Musk Playbook
No, Chevron Deference Will Not Save the FTC’s Noncompete Ban
Carl Shapiro: “Regulating Big Tech: Factual Foundations and Policy Goals”
A Lot To Digest, And More To Come!
Advocates of Friendshoring Have Not Reckoned with Digital Trade
A Shift in Merger Enforcement Risks Damaging Our Economy
Imitating Creators: Prospective Governance And Mechanisms For Identifying AI-Generated Content
“Modernized” HSR Filing Fees and Increased Filing Thresholds
New Research Suggests Connections Between Market Concentration And The Exercise Of Political Power In The United States
If You Ask Your Friend To Take Your Photo Using Your Camera, Who Owns The Copyright?–Shah v. NYP
Bamboozled?
The European Commission’s Investigation Into Music Streaming: Why Spotify Has Good Reasons To Be Impatient
Digital Competition Act — It’s All About A Fresh Change In Competition Law To Regulate Digital Markets
A Blast from the Past: FTC Bringing Back Enforcement of Robinson-Patman Act
The FTC’s NPRM on Noncompete Clauses: Flirting with Institutional Crisis
Crypto Regulatory Affairs: US Supervisors Warn Banks on Crypto Exposure
FCC Starts 2022 Quadrennial Review Before the 2018 Review is Complete – Time for Another Look at Radio and TV Local Ownership Rules
Egyptian Merger Control Undergoes Major Revamping After 17 Years
AI in the Common Interest
Per Se Rules Notches Another Labor Market Pretrial Win, But…
Responsible AI: Key Principles to Consider While Leveraging Artificial Intelligence In Your Business
The Paramount Decrees And The Deregulation Of Hollywood Studios
Remy: Regulate (FTX Parody)
Why Cryptoassets Are Not Securities
Patent Pools, Innovation, and Antitrust Policy
Public Service Broadcasting – A Renewed Need In The Time Of Recommender Systems?
Antimonopoly: A Master Narrative For Democracy?
A Look At European Parliament’s AI Act Negotiations
FTC Policy Statement on the Scope of Unfair Methods of Competition – A Broad But Vague Warning
Massive Over-Disclosure in the UK May be The Hallmark of a New “Bespoke Disclosure Regime” For Our Digital Age
The CMA’s Investigation Of Competition Restrictions Regarding Browsers
Natural Disasters And State Aid
Antitrust and Blockchain Technology: Group Boycotts, the Bitmain case, and the Ethereum “Merge”
Yer Out (For Now): MLB Dismissed From Antitrust Lawsuit Because Of Historic Antitrust Exemption
The FTC Knows It When It Sees It
How Should Companies Adapt To The New AI Regulations?
Business As Usual For Antitrust
Too Many Economists Are Using a Flawed Theory To Defend Dominant Platforms’ Self-Preferencing Practices
Keeping An ‘AI’ On Your Data: UK Data Regulator Recommends Lawful Methods Of Using Personal Information And Artificial Intelligence
SACC’s Take On Its #DigitalMarkets Oversight & Regulation
Cybersecurity Month Serves as Reminder to Take Proactive Steps
Hospital Mergers: The Future of COPA Immunity
Brexit Sunset Clause Risks Uncertainty for UK Competition Law
When Climate Collaboration Is Treated as an Antitrust Violation
Emerging Risks In Digital Procurement Governance
Does It or Doesn’t It?
Do the Antitrust Laws Prohibit Tying Products Or Services Together For Sale?
Proxy Tactics Are Changing: Can Advance Notice Bylaws Do What Poison Pills Cannot?
Reimagining Digital Resilience In An Uncertain World
Fighting New Antitrust Rules Is a Bad Move for Big Tech
The EU Crypto Regulation Marathon: Another Step Closer to the Finish Line
Political Philosophy, Competition, And Competition Law: The Road To And From Neoliberalism, Part 3
The DMA Has Been Published: Now The Real Challenges Start
The Data-Driven Economy Raises New Challenges for Global Governance
The Chinese Surveillance State Proves That The Idea Of Privacy Is More “Malleable” Than You’d Expect
The Need For Employee-Specific Data Protection Law: Potential Lessons From Germany For The EU
The Competing Priorities Facing U.S. Crypto Regulations
Rent Going Up? One Company’s Algorithm Could Be Why.
The EU Digital Markets Act – An Irish Perspective
Back to the Future: FTC Eyes Revival Of Price Discrimination Enforcement Under Robinson-Patman Act
Judges’ Presence on Social Media: Dangers of Posting, Liking, and Sharing
DOJ Antitrust Division Not Backing Down on Labor
U.S. Healthcare Industry Remains Antitrust Enforcement Priority
How Can Good Corporate Governance Help Strengthen The Corporate Sector?
“Cartel Damages Proceedings Run Too Long In Germany!”
The Notion Of Abuse After The Android Judgment (Case T‑604/18): What Is Clearer And What Remains To Be Clarified (I)
Remedies for M&A Breach of Contract – The Cineplex Case
FTC and USAID Launch Africa-Focussed Digital Competition Initiative
The EU is Crafting Liability Laws For A.I. Products That Cause Injuries—Here’s Why The Whole World Better Pay Attention
Damn the Economics, Full Speed Ahead!
A Guide To The Digital Services Act, The EU’s New Law To Rein In Big Tech
Data Is Abundant But Is It Accessible To Researchers?
FTC Issues Illuminating Report On Digital Dark Patterns
Data Privacy, Trust, And Ethical AI: Why Is This The Need Of The Hour?
Designating Large Platforms Under The DMA And The DSA: Comparing Apples and Oranges?
Senator Rand Paul Introduces Bill to Repeal Broadcast Ownership Limits
Frenemies: Global Approaches To Rebalance The Big Tech v Journalism Relationship
Colorado District Attorneys Are Working Across The Aisle And Leveraging Community Input To Expand Access To Data Driven Insights
‘To The Left, To The Left: All The IP You ‘Own’ In The Box To The (Copy)Left’: Open Source Software Issues In M&A Transactions
AI Isn’t Ready to Make Unsupervised Decisions
Is AI Governance a Vitamin Pill or a Painkiller?
Federal Court Allows Price-Fixing Class Action to Proceed Against Universities
Germany’s Digital Strategy – Digitalisation Of The Telecommunications Infrastructure – The Second Attempt
Hub-and-Spoke Antitrust Conspiracies and the Classic Case of Toys “R” Us v. FTC
Collaborative Approaches To Policy Implementation For Digital Transformation
Are All Mergers Inherently Anticompetitive?
Cultural Capture Of Antitrust Is More Likely In America Than Europe
Davis Polk Discusses Biden’s Executive Order on Competition, One Year Later
Antitrust is Turning Its Eye To Gaming
Legal Standing of Competitors
Antitrust and Private Equity – Parental Liability Rules Can Allow Authorities to Claw Back Profits In UK and Europe
Cartel Corner | August 2022
Are You Prepared For The New EU Regulations on Artificial Intelligence?
More Sustainability In Merger Control?
China: Design Patents and the Metaverse
Data’s Transformative Power: Opportunities, Risks And Privacy
The Merge Is Upon Us: What It Means for Ethereum
Law Commission Proposes Revolutionary Rules for Ownership Of Crypto Tokens And NFTs
EU Agrees New Rules To Rein In ‘Wild West’ Crypto Industry
CMA Music Streaming Market Study: What’s Going On?
AI-gatha Christie: What Clues Does The AI Policy Paper Provide About The Future For Regulation Of AI In The UK?
Artificial Intelligence And Algorithms In The Next Congress
Tech Tank Podcast: How Does Tech Policy Fall Short In Protecting People With Disabilities?
CCC withdraws its recent Merger Practice Note
Antitrust for Kids: No Traitors Allowed: Golf and Monopolization
FTC’s case against Meta’s acquisition of Within seeks to shape the emerging VR market
Agenda 2025: Time For A Comeback? The Case For Structural Antitrust
“Yo Competition!”: How America Can Learn From Rocky & Win the Global Fight for Tech Innovation
FTC Announces Three Right-To-Repair Cases: Do Your Warranties Comply With The Law?
The Catch-22 of AICOA’s Guidelines
Competition Commission Releases Online Intermediation Platform Market Inquiry Provisional Summary Report
West Virginia v. EPA and ‘Major Questions’ Facing the Competition Agencies
Reversing The Hold Up vs Hold Out Debate?
The Other Side Of The Coin: Cryptocurrency Assets In Bankruptcy
The Understated Relationship Between Market Dominance and Political Influence
Confusion Can Make for Good Politics, but Bad Economics
Computer Scientists Can’t Treat Social and Ethical Impacts as an Afterthought
IFPMA Issues Principles Encouraging Ethical Use Of AI In Healthcare
Can Sentient AI Break The Law?
Overview Of The FCC’s Broadband Data Collection Resources
Warner Music Group Signs On To SoundCloud’s Artist-Friendly Payment Model
Senators Ask USPTO & US Copyright Office To Conduct NFT Study, With A Focus On IP Issues
Rogers Outage Revealed Urgent Need for Better Regulatory Cooperation
Using Artificial Intelligence For Social Impact
Don’t be Chicken to Meet–The Case for Preindictment Meetings
Five Key Issues About The Regulation Of AI
Significant Changes to China’s Anti-Monopoly Law to Take Effect in August
UK IPO Proposes New Copyright Exception For Text And Data Mining
AGENDA 2025: Distortions Of Competition From Third Countries: How Can Fair GLobal Competition Be Strengthened?
The Challenge of Holding Big Business Accountable
Competition Law And Sports Governance: Disentangling A Complex Relationship
Is the PGA’s Suspension of 17 Players Out of Bounds Under the Federal Antitrust Laws?
Apple and Google’s Stranglehold Over Mobile Ecosystems: Why It’s Important And What We’re Doing About It
African Antitrust Authority Edges Closer To Becoming Price Regulator
How Trump Increased Your Cell Phone Bill
Towards Gigabit Networks – A Few Considerations From The United Kingdom
DOJ’s Threatened Reign of Error: Proposed Criminal-Monopolization Prosecutions
How Would the Big Tech Self-Preferencing Bill Affect Users?
How Big Media Handed Digital Advertising to Big Tech
How Should Antitrust Deal With Facebook? A Stigler Center Panel Investigates
Robotics Spotlight: Global Regulatory Trends Affecting Robotics
Elon Musk, The Buffalo Shooting, Texas, And Internet Free Speech
Does Monitoring Your Phone Affect The Essence of Privacy?
Does the FCC Regulate Internet Content and Companies?
AI Regulation Is On The Horizon – Part 4
Evaluating 2 Tech Antitrust Bills To Restore Competition Online
Independent, But Together: How Antitrust and Regulation Can Work Synergistically To Benefit Consumers
Should The Competitive Process Test Replace The Consumer Welfare Standard?
Problems With the Supply Chain Began Before the Pandemic. Here’s What Biden Can Do About It.
The Loser Still Pays – The Supreme Court’s Judgment On Costs In Phenytoin
UK Procurement Bill, General Principles, and Additivity – Why There Is No Such Risk
Warner Bros. Discovery
Per Se Rule: “I’m Still Standing (Yeah yeah yeah!)”
The Future Of The Internet Is Now!
Wachtell Lipton Discusses Addressing Market Volatility and Risk in M&A Agreements
On Case C-377/20, Servizio Elettrico Nazionale (I): overarching framework or case-specific judgment?
From Cryptic to (Some) Clarity: English Law and Policy Rising to the Challenge of Cryptoassets (Part 2)
AGENDA 2025: THE BLUNT SWORD
The Download: Meta’s AI Giveaway, And Abortion Clinic Data Tracking
Acquittals in the First Two Wage-Fixing and No-Poach Criminal Trials
The Increasing Importance Of Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (“BBBEE”) In South African Competition Law
How Elon Musk Might Shift Twitter Content Moderation
Are There Any Restraints On Vertical Block Exemptions?
The Success of Your M&A Deal Hinges on How You Announce It
New Data Shows the Rise of Corporate Concentration in the US in the Past 100 Years
Is Competition Always Good?
Antitrust for Kids—The Spider Web That Is A Hub-and-Spoke Conspiracy
Can the FTC Use Rulemaking to Change Antitrust Law?
Online Choice Architecture – How Do We End Up Making Decisions We Don’t Want To Make?
Heard on Day One of 2022 Antitrust Law Spring Meeting
New Trade Secret and Noncompete Case Growth Graph
Antitrust And Labor Movements Return to Their Roots
The First Chinese Court Decision On Antitrust Issues In Labor Markets
A First Commission Decision on Natural Gas Storage
Agenda 2025: Reform Of Cartel Damages Law
The Last Major Airline Deal?
The Fast Growing Concentration Of The Connected TV OS Market: Getting Ahead Of Another Big Tech Duopoly, Before It’s Too Late
Reviving Bank Antitrust
South African Competition Commission Prosecutes Facebook for Abuse of Dominance
The EU’s Antitrust Lessons for America
Will Microsoft Use Activision Blizzard to Freeze Out Rivals?
DOJ Antitrust Division “Absolutely” Prepared to Criminally Charge Illegal Monopolization Conduct
OIM’s UK Internal Market Report: First Impressions
Merger Control In Times Of Crisis
Final DMA: Now We Know Where We’re Going, but We Still Don’t Know Why
The World’s First Green Antitrust Provision Shows That Climate Action Is The Newest Antitrust Frontier
No Let-Up In Merger Control Focus As Global Antitrust Authorities Continue To Frustrate M&A Deals In 2021
Greening EU Competition Law: Commission Invites Comments On Draft Revised Rules On Horizontal Cooperation
Should Foreign Investors Be Concerned About The New National Security Review Measures In China?
Deviating From The GPA In Bilateral Or Multilateral FTAs — How Good Or Effective Is That Regulatory Strategy?
Japan: Competition Authority Publishes Report On IPO Pricing Practices
UPDATE: The End of the Ocean Carriers’ Antitrust Exemption?
Antitrust and Sustainability: An Introduction to an Ongoing Debate
Merger Control in Russia
Rising To The Challenge of Competition Enforcement in Digital Markets
Sustainability Under Article 101 (3) TFEU
(Un)Intended Consequences of Regulatory Enforcement in M&A
Annual European Competition Review 2021
Looking Ahead to Tougher Merger Guidelines and Enforcement
The Microsoft Open App Store Principles in Eight Points
How an Old U.S. Antitrust Law Could Foster a Fairer Retail Sector
Mutual (Dis)Trust: EU Competition Law Enforcement In The Shadow of the Rule of Law Crisis
Treasury Department’s Report Recommends an Antitrust Cocktail to Revive Competition in Alcohol Markets
When Beefing Up Competition Bleeds at Consumers’ Misfortune
Observations on the Court’s Rejection of Facebook’s Motion to Dismiss the FTC’s Amended Antitrust Complaint
Countering Employer Monopsony Power With Fundamental Labor Rights
App Stores as Public Utilities?
Agree or Disagree, Abuses ‘By Object’ Are a Thing Unless the Case Law Changes
Notification Threshold Under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act Increased to $101 Million
Franchise No-Poach Agreements: Is Reform on The Horizon?
CMA’s Digital Markets Unit: Exciting Opportunities to Influence the Regulation of Big Tech
Progressive Cologne
Why Exit via Acquisition Is Essential to Entrepreneurial Investment
How to Fix the Courts’ Misuse of Economics
The European Union’s Big Policy Bet Against the Tech Giants
U.S. Senate Self-Preferencing Bill Offers Perfect Recipe for Regulatory Overreach
Meanwhile, the DOJ Antitrust Division Launches Merger Challenges in the Airline, Publishing, and Sugar Industries
Yet Another Amazon Antitrust Paradox
ESports – Regulating Aspiring Gatekeepers?
AG Rantos’s Opinion In Case C-377/20, Servizio Elettrico Nazionale: A Clean Framework Capturing The Essence Of The Case Law (II)
Promoting Competition Bulletin December 2021
District Court Finds Antitrust Division’s First Wage Fixing Indictment Alleges a Per Se Violation
New CCC Chief Addresses World Competition Day, Lays Out Future of COMESA Antitrust Policy
Antitrust Scrutiny Heating Up in Oil and Gas Industries
Political Philosophy, Competition, and Competition Law: The Road to and from Neoliberalism, Part 1
What are the Available Exemptions to Antitrust Liability?
Becoming the DMA: The Parliament’s Compromise (For Now)
Plus Factors in Price-Fixing Litigation
All FRANDS On Deck: Asserting Jurisdiction Over Global SEP Disputes in China, UK
The General Court in Case T‑612/17, Google Shopping: the rise of a doctrine of equal treatment in Article 102 TFEU
Compensatory Payments and State Resources
The Important Role of Competition Authorities in Promoting Competitive Neutrality
How to Make the Market for Real Estate Agents More Competitive
CCC Draft Guidelines (No. 3/3): Penalties
Antitrust M&A Snapshot Q3 2021
The Real Monopoly is In The Boardroom
Misconduct Synergies from Mergers
Will the DMA Deliver on its Promises? Part I: Substantive Aspects (or Markets Do Not Become Contestable by Decree)?
The Competition Cure-All – Part F
FTC Continues to Unilaterally Repeal the HSR Merger Review Process
Legitimate Expectations and the “Right” to State Aid
Frances Haugen Wants A Digital Regulator — And So Does Facebook
How Big Data Fuels Big Tech’s Anticompetitive Conduct and Gatekeeping Power
Trade and Competition: Best Friend Forever?
Where Does the Proposed EU AI Act Place Procurement?
Kenya Antitrust Enforcer Reiterates Warning to Professional Associations
Antitrust Division Commits To Labor Market Enforcement As A Top Priority
Why There Needs to Be More, not Less, Consolidation in Video Streaming
Sustainability Agreements and Antitrust – Three Criteria to Distinguish Beneficial Cooperation from Greenwashing
How can AI Enhance Market Supervision and Integrity?
How Will the FTC Evaluate Vertical Mergers?
Missing the Forest for the Trees: A Reply to Hovenkamp and Shapiro
DOJ Warns Against Collusion/Fraud in Hurricane Ida Relief Efforts
Antitrust Dystopia and Antitrust Nostalgia
The FTC Withdraws Vertical Merger Guidelines. Will it Take on Big-Tech Small Acquisitions Next?
Another Update on the Patent “Aggregation” Suit Against Fortress
An Epic Fail or an Epic Win for Tech Antitrust?
Privacy Now Looms Large in Antitrust Enforcement
Mergers: 1st Failure-to-Notify Penalty — Helios now Gets what Akzo Avoided in 2017
Making the Second Request Process Both More Streamlined and More Rigorous During this Unprecedented Merger Wave
Does AI Have a Dark Side When it Comes to Competition?
Myths About Competition in the Global Economy Harm Humanity and Our Planet
How the House Antitrust Bills Preserve Platforms’ Editorial Discretion and Spur Consumer Choice
Revisiting Bork the Antitrust Warrior
New York State to Revolutionize Antitrust
The Unchecked Market Power of the American Health Care System
The Antitrust Revolution: New Brandeisians Keep Their Promise
How Much Do Various Advisers Affect the Success of M&A?
Antitrust Law Meets Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies in Court: Lessons Learned on Market Definition and Antitrust Injury from the Bitman Case
Technology Mergers and the Market for Corporate Control
FTC, Under Pressure from “Tidal Wave” of HSR Filings, To Begin Issuing Close-At-Your-Own-Risk Letters
Revisiting the Burger King prohibition: [Unintended] Consequences & [Possible] Reconsideration?
Biden’s Executive Order and the Shifting US Antitrust Landscape
Why Privacy Experts Need a Place at the Antitrust Table
Senate Hearing Inadvertently Shows Why Antitrust Policy Is the Wrong Prescription for What Ails Drug Markets
To Promote Competition, Deregulate
A Canary in the Coal Mine for the Failure of U.S. Competition Law: Competition Problems in Prescription Drug Market
The CMA as Protector of Leaseholders of Houses?
Why I Think the Antitrust Division Should Reconsider Its Policy on No Notice/No Target Letter Indictments
South Africa: Exemptions to Aid Consumers During and After Riots
The UK’s New Subsidy Control Bill: Targeting a Faster, More Permissive Regime Than EU State Aid Rules
Revamp of the EU’s Rules on Vertical Agreements: It’s About the (Digital) Economy, Stupid!
Antitrust Regulators v. Big Tech: The Battle Reaches India
Does an Exclusive-Dealing Agreement Violate the Antitrust Laws?
How to Tame the Tech Giants: Reverse the Burden of Proof in Merger Reviews
New U.S. Antitrust Legislation Before Congress Must Mandate an Anticompetitive Presumption for Acquisitions of Nascent Potential Competitors by Dominant Firms
Addressing Big Tech’s power over speech
Self-Preferencing and the Level Playing Field
Dynamic Merger Efficiencies: The Case of Pharmaceutical Markets
The Politization of Antitrust
New Antitrust Bills Highlight Continued Big Tech Scrutiny
Why the DMA is Much More than Competition Law (and Should Not be Treated as Such)
Initiatives I Hope the Antitrust Division Will Consider, Continued
Precedent-Setting Decision: Burger King Acquisition Prohibited Purely on Public Interest Grounds
Biden’s Antitrust Revolutionaries
Concentration in the EU: Where It is Increasing and Why
State Aid and Essential National Interest
What Pandemic Changes Will Be Lasting and Affect Antitrust Practice?
What’s the Future of Competition in the Intangible Economy?
Good Night, ‘Most Favoured Nation’ Clauses!
Why Are So Few Law Professors Interested in Antitrust?
The Merger Filing Fee Modernization Act is a Down Payment on the Future of Antitrust Enforcement
The ISU Case and the SuperLeague: on Ancillarity, Object and Burden of Proof in the General Court’s Judgment (Case T‑93/18)
Nigerian Competition Law: FCCPC Publishes Penalty Guidelines
European Commission and National Authorities Take a Stand Against Excessive Pricing by the Pharmaceutical Industry
Readers Would be Harmed by Further Book Mergers
Antitrust Lessons from AT&T’s M&A Fiasco
One Ring to Rule Them All?
Do Plans for a European Super League Breach Competition Law?
What You Need to Know About the EU’s New AI Regulation
My Proposal to Amend Section 1 of the Sherman Act
Biden Proposes Government Actually Try to Create Broadband Competition
Enforcing Anti-Monopoly Law Against Big Tech in China: A Case Study of Alibaba’s $2.8bn Fine from SAMR
Supreme Court Gives Competition a Booster Shot in Landmark Fair Use Decision
Lease Contracts and Competitive Selection
Deferred Prosecution Agreements and Effective Compliance Programs in the Antitrust World: The New Married Couple
Bringing the CMA’s Merger Assessment Guidelines up to Date
S.A. Considers Non-Binding Advisory Opinions (Again)
Identifying the Market In the Facebook Antitrust Case
Senator Klobuchar’s Antitrust Bill Doesn’t Go Far Enough
Why I Agree With the Google-Fitbit Decision
Facebook’s Pitch to Congress: Section 230 for Thee, Not for Me
The “Generics UK” precedent: will the ECJ find the way out of the “restriction by object” maze?
Thoughts on today’s judgments in Lundbeck and Slovak Telekom: expected and valuable clarifications for the future
Facebook: Next Stop Europe
A Year in the Rearview: Eastern District of Virginia and Coronavirus Fraud Prosecutions
First Thoughts on The Commission’s Bid Rigging Exclusion Guidance — What Difference Will It Make?
Congress Should Not Legalize a News Media Cartel
HSR Early Termination After a Second Request Issues
Nigerian Competition Authority Finally Established
Did Antitrust Kill the Radio Star?
Antitrust by Fiat
Waiting for Change—Antitrust in Distribution in Early 2021
How the FTC Protected the Market Power of Pharmacy Benefit Managers
Sustainability and Competition Law: Moving Beyond the Conflict Narrative Towards a Structured Debate
Competitive Edge: Big Ag’s Monopsony Problem: How Market Dominance Harms U.S. Workers and Consumers
Another Post About Whistleblowers and Criminal Antitrust Enforcement
New Enforcement Tool Against Abusive Market Conduct
Staples Announces Plans to Purchase Office Depot: Will Its Third Attempt Be More Successful?
Congress Misses Opportunity to Bolster Flagging Cartel Enforcement through Whistleblowers
Intelligently Evolving Your Corporate Compliance Program
Single Brush Stroke Stops Paints Cartel in its Tracks
Digital Ecosystems – a New Economic Paradigm?
Facebook and Twitter Made the Right Decision. Big Tech Is Still Too Powerful.
Boosting Wages When U.S. Labor Markets Are Not Competitive
Be Careful What You Wish For: Why Discretion To Fine-Tune Digital Markets May Not Be In The Interest Of Authorities (Or The Public Interest At Large)
Happy New GWB!
Merricks Judgement Marks A Turning Point For UK Opt-Out Collective Actions
DOJ Files First Indictment Charging No-Poach Labor Agreement
Too Big Not to Fail? Google’s Antitrust Woes
The FTC Sues Endo and Impax Over Opana ER Agreement . . . Again
Amended California Price Gouging Law Closes Potential Loopholes
Franchise No-Poach Agreements: Is Reform on The Horizon?
New Antitrust Whistleblower Reward Scheme: Are ‘Paltry’ Rewards & Anonymity Enough?
Algorithms: where’s the harm?
Little Law And No New Regulator: What’s Missing In The House Antitrust Report
Why the Federal Government’s Antitrust Case Against Google Should—and Likely Will—Fail
How The EU’s New Digital Services Act Can Help Build Trust And Tackle Illegal Content
Competition Outlook For 2021: Four Themes Towards A Fairer And Greener Future
An Early Winter Present? The UK’s ‘Transforming Public Procurement’ Green Paper
Two Christmas Gifts: DMA & GWB10
Collective Actions In The Supreme Court
10 Comments On The Commission’s DMA Proposal
A Look Back At The Road To The Antitrust Division’s First Criminal Wage-Fixing Case
Digital Platforms — New EU Regulations and Competition Law Tools
The News Media Bargaining Code Remains Unworkable—But There Is a Path Forward
The Assault On The Printed Page
The FTC’s Facebook Suit: Questions and Answers
Restoring Competition in the United States
Big Tech Platforms and Schumpeter’s Creative Destruction
Servizio Elettrico Nazionale: a Good Overview of Article 102 TFEU Case Law
SEP Licensing In Supply Chains: ECJ Gets Opportunity For a Major Trend-Setting Decision
South African Competition Appeal Court Upholds Tribunal’s Excessive Pricing/ Anti-Price Gouging Decision re: Babelegi
Is That Really Necessary? Facebook, RFI, and the General Court
Spotlight On Cartels: Bid Rigging Affecting Public Procurement
‘How Tech Rolls’: Potential Competition and ‘Reverse’ Killer Acquisitions
AMP It Up: As Its Antitrust Critics Grow Louder, Google Dials Back One of Its Most Controversial Policies
The Department of Justice Policy and Guidance on Antitrust Compliance Programs and Antitrust Criminal Violations
The Dishonesty of Conservative Attacks on Section 230
Liu et al. and the Good and Bad in Economics
How Merger Control Impedes an Efficient Market for Corporate Control
The Challenges to (Re)forming a Platform Economy for the People
Acquisition Killed the Innovation Star?
Diversification Is At The Heart Of Competition
Classic Antitrust Cases: Trinko, linkLine and the House Report on Big Tech
Five Takeaways From Antitrust Lawsuit Against Google
Got Questions About the HSR Rulemaking? We’ll Answer Them Live (Virtually)
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria (or, say, Big Tech)
EU M&A Regulation is Getting Tougher – What You Need to Know in 2020 and Beyond
DOJ V. Google – Will Google Be Broken Up?
Nigeria’s Foreign-to-Foreign Merger Control Regime
An Indirect Cost of Record Public Debt: Crowding Out Market Competition?
EU Merger Control Reform – What To Expect in 2021 and Beyond?
To Comment or not to Comment on the Ex Ante Rules for Gatekeepers (+ 9 Other Questions on the Draft Proposals)
“Doubt is Their Product”: The Difference Between Research and Academic Lobbying
A Law & Economics Perspective on Ruth Bader Ginsburg
New York Could Lead the Nation Into 21st Century Antitrust Enforcement 
Google’s Improvements to Google Play: A Preliminary Review
NCAA, COVID and Paying Players: Negotiating Payment in the Midst of a Pandemic
The State of U.S. Federal Antitrust Enforcement
Abusing Antitrust Enforcement for Personal Gain? Malawi’s Competition Agency Misled by Textbook Competitor
Protecting the ‘Law’ in Competition Law
De-classified: What Really Happened to Newspapers
Competition Laws and Corporate Innovation
Forbidden Fruit
Seeing the Whole Picture on Avoidance Devices
Ex-post and ex-ante rules
What is the Twombly Motion-to-Dismiss Standard for Antitrust Cases? Comparing the Ninth and Second Circuits
Facebook Case: The Reasoning
The Curious Case of The Federal Prosecutor Who Sided With Defendants
The Legal Test And The Remedy Are Not Two Separate Steps; They Are Two Sides Of The Same Coin
Big Day for Big Tech: CEOs Testify in House Antitrust Hearing
Implications of China’s Antitrust Guidelines for the Automobile Sector on Regulation of Vertical Restraints
The Hearing May be Virtual, But The Rules Are The Same
The Antitrust Doctrine We’ve Seen Over the Last 40 Years Simply Does Not Match the Lived Experience of People
The Epic Flaws of Epic’s Antitrust Gambit
The Monopoly Harms That Antitrust Keeps Missing
Let the Chips Fall Where They May: The 9th Circuit Gives Free Rein to Qualcomm’s Monopoly
Shaping The ‘She-covery’: Using Gender Inclusive Competition Policy to Build Back Better
Can Antitrust Laws Assist with the Economic Recovery?
A New Antitrust Paradigm In View Of The Digital Economy
Eyes Wide Open: There Are No Blinders In Merger Reviews
Fire & Fawning
On Disclosure And Conflicts of Interests: Three Years Later, We Are In a Better Place
Apple v. Commission: The Verdict’s In
Apple App Store’s Commission Rates Study Misses the Mark
Why Competition Law Is So Important for Developing Countries
Regulating Technology
COVID-19, Tech Firms, and the Case for Data Sharing
Permian-Triassic Extinction Event Antitrust Post
Why the Political Misuse of Antitrust Must be Prevented
South Africa’s Second Price Gouging Case: Dis-Chem Penalised for Excessive Pricing re: Face Masks
Competition Law in a Time of Political and Economic Transformation
Invited to Your First Trade Association Meeting? Here Are Important Antitrust Tips
The Furman Report is a Flimsy Basis for a New UK Competition Policy
South Africa: Competition Commission Releases Report on Food Price Monitoring
UK: Update On The Work Of The CMA’s COVID-19 Taskforce
Economics as Cultural Tell
If Past is Prologue, Ramped up Antitrust Compliance is Critical
Can This Be the New Normal? 10 Questions on the Proposed New Competition Tool
Limits of State Action Protection for Colleges and Universities
European Commission White Paper on Leveling the Playing Field as Regards Foreign Subsidies
Should Venture-Capital Backed Or Foreign-Funded Companies Worry About Predatory-Pricing-Antitrust Claims?
Modernizing German Patent Law: Toward an Explicit Obligation for Proportionality Control of Injunctions?
Apple May Finally Have to Answer for Its Unfair App Store Policies
The Week Big Tech Lost Power
Would You Rather: Merger or Nationalization?
Why did the Chicken Cross the Road? To Visit DOJ and Score a Leniency
The Supreme Court Sharpens the “Blue Pencil Test” for Restrictive Covenants
The Conundrum of Common Ownership
Facebook @ BGH
Uncertain Harms: The Case of Nascent Competitors
Let’s Call The Whole Thing Off: Outcome-Critical UK Intervention In US-Centric M&A
Op-Ed: Antitrust Hawks Spot New Prey Through Covid-19 Eyes
Anticompetitive Effects in EU Competition Law
Explainable AI in M&A: Legal Incentives and Technical Challenges
Politics Has No Place in Antitrust Enforcement, Left or Right
It’s Not Delivery, It’s Diminished Competition: Can Uber Really Buy Grubhub?
The Debate On Big Tech – We Can Do Better
We Need To Talk About Privacy Absolutism
Fairly Balanced
South African Competition Enforcement: A Juxtaposition.
Latest Constitutional Challenge To Section 232 Duties
Amnesty And Its Punishments: ACPERA And The Future Of U.S. Antitrust Cartel Enforcement
Government Amicus Efforts Show Antitrust Policy Via Advocacy
Should The EU’s Forthcoming Ex Ante Regulation of Digital Gatekeepers be Based on The EU Regulatory Framework for Electronic Communications?
The Failing Firm Defense In Times Of Economic Uncertainty
Some Musings On Covid-19 Academia & Beyond
Coronavirus and the EU State Aid Framework
An Evidence Based Analysis of Relevant Market: The Case of Ridesharing in Delhi National Capital Region (India)
Analyzing One Decade of Blockchain Litigation
SSNIPPETS (38): Phase II
Interim measures by the Autorité de la Concurrence: history repeats itself after IMS Health
The Danger of No Antitrust Enforcement: How a Merger Led to the US Ventilator Shortage
South Africa Competition Tribunal: Regulations Published to Expedite COVID-19 Excessive and Unfair Pricing Complaint Referrals
Flatten the coronavirus curve, but don’t flatline competition
Fuel Supply Bid-Rigging Prosecution Highlights Interplay of Whistleblower Statute and Antitrust Division’s Leniency Program
Competition and Sustainability: Stepping Up to the Plate
United Technologies/Raytheon Highlights Key Issues in Aerospace and Defense Industry Merger Review
Amazon’s tightrope: Balancing Innovation and competition on Amazon’s Marketplace
My Competitor-Supplier Just Decided to Stop Dealing with Me: Do the Federal Antitrust Laws Help Me?
EU Recovery Fund: An Opportunity for Change
ICN Steering Group Statement: Competition During And After The COVID-19 Pandemic
Canada: Competition Bureau Statement On Competitor Collaborations During The COVID-19 Pandemic
Antitrust Law in Times of Crisis = Crisis of Antitrust Law?
The Seventh Circuit Explains the “Co-Conspiracy Exception” to the Illinois Brick Rule in Healthcare Antitrust Lawsuit
Financial Operating Systems
Executive Order Addresses DOJ’s Fight Against Hoarding Activity
With a new 6(b) study, the FTC reassesses antitrust enforcement
COVID-19, Ghost Flights, and Emerging Property Rights in Airport Slots
Resuming early termination of HSR reviews
Economic Competition in a Time of Crisis
Remedies: holding businesses to account
The Importance of Antitrust in the Digital Economy
PepsiCo/Pioneer merger: Minister Patel approves the Deal
New Competition Bureau Deceptive Marketing Practices Digest: Priorities Include Misleading Data Privacy Claims
U.S. Antitrust Agencies to Streamline Review for COVID-19 Collaborations (UPDATED)
Indispensability and Article 102 TFEU: it is not about Bronner (and refusals), but about Van den Bergh Foods (and remedies)
New Zealand: Government Statement On Commercial Cooperation During COVID-19
Argentina: Modes For Entering Urgent Presentations Under the Framework Of The Health Emergency – COVID-19
Exceptional Circumstances Caused By The Coronavirus To Affect The Application Of The Finnish Competition Act.
Communication With The Bundeskartellamt During COVID-19 Crisis
Ireland: COVID-19 Temporary Merger Notification Process
State Aid: Commission Approves Danish Guarantee Scheme For SMEs Affected By Coronavirus Outbreak
Statement From Canada’s Commissioner Of Competition Regarding Enforcement During The COVID-19 situation
Change To The Judicial Activities Of The Court Of Justice As A Result Of The Coronavirus Covid-19 Pandemic
Information On The Operation Of The Hungarian Competition Authority Due To The Situation Of The pandemic
CMA Launches COVID-19 Taskforce
South Africa: Immediate Response To Anti-Competitive Conduct During The State Of National Disaster
Board Of Commissioners Decrees To Stop Legal Terms For Some Procedures Filed Before COFECE
Australian COVID-19 Information for Consumers
FTC Outlines Agency’s Response to Coronavirus Challenges
Commission Adopts Temporary Framework to Enable Member States to Further Support the Economy in the COVID-19 Outbreak
Continuing to grow and invest across America in 2020
Protecting consumers’ interests in digital markets: The experience of Australia
Aerospace and Defense Series: DOJ and FTC Vertical Merger Guidelines Will Impact Government Contractors
Case C-307/18 Generics (UK) and others v CMA (Paroxetine), a major landmark in the case law (I): principles
The Fundamental Unimportance of Algorithmic Collusion for Antitrust Law
Decision (part 4): The Commission’s Economic Analysis
Hub-and-Spoke Antitrust Conspiracies and the Classic Case of Toys “R” Us v. FTC
Reforming U.S. antitrust enforcement and competition policy
How to deal with Big Tech mergers
Diagnosing “Killer” Acquisitions: FTC Market Study to Review Past M&A Deals in Big Tech
Move Fast and Break Things: Law, Technology, and the Problem of Speed
Merger remedies – is it time to go more behavioural?
Can ‘Hijacking’ a Single Cryptocurrency Network Violate Antitrust Laws?
South Africa News Alert: Price Discrimination and Buyer Power Provisions brought into effect.
CJEU confirms the right of all cartel victims to obtain redress in Elevators and Escalators cartel case
Leadership Changes
So This Is Brexit? UK Competition Law Post 31 January 2020
Navigating Dangerous Shoals: The Murky but Critical Territorial Boundaries of U.S. Antitrust Jurisdiction
Key African Antitrust Highlights of 2019 and What to Keep Tabs on for 2020
The Upsides of Collusion and Concentration
When is the Filed Rate Doctrine a Defense to an Antitrust Lawsuit?
First Per Se Rule Assault Turned Away; The Battle Will Go On
The End of the Paramount Antitrust Consent Decrees: A Brief Look at Movie History and the Future
The Chicago School’s Limited Influence on International Antitrust
The notions of competition, potential competition and restriction in the case law: an excerpt (1)
Innovation and Competition in Financial Markets
Big (But Not Bad) Data and Merger Efficiencies
Merger Enforcement in Dynamic and Innovative Markets
The Davies Forecast of Top 5 Trends and Issues for Canadian Competition Law in 2020
It’s Official: The Draft Bill GWB10
BigTech vs BigBang: Competition in Financial Services
México: Cuatro empresas se reparten mercado de transporte de pasajeros, acusa COFECE
Brasil: Bayer, autorizado para crear nueva empresa conjunta digital
Argentina: Esperan supermercados nuevo plan de Precios Cuidados
Colombia: SIC no podrá realizar inspecciones sin orden de juez, determina la Corte
México: IFT aprueba, con condiciones concentración Disney – Fox
Argentina: Fondo Norteamericano, nuevo operador de VISA en Argentina
Spain: Media agencies blow whistle on Mediaset and AtresMedia collusion
EEUU: Casa Blanca presenta 4 nominados a la FTC
Competition Buzz: Doctrine and Evaluation of Trends in Antitrust Law Enforcement
Mexico: Following court order, IFT strikes down largest-ever fine
Chile: Tour bus operators face steep settlement in market-fixing aftermath
Brazil: Amaggi purchase of major grain producer cleared
Spain: Barceló backs away from planned merger with rival NH
Dominican Rep: Renewable energy sector calls out ‘shut-out’ from energy contract bids
Ecuador: Probe launched into football transmission foul play
Spain: Renfe to face ‘total’ competition in passenger transport
Tendencias en Competencia: La Doctrina Y La Evaluación De Tendencias En La Aplicación De La Normativa «Antitrust» 
México: Por resolución de Suprema Corte, IFT anula multa a Telefónica
Chile: Transportistas enfrentan demanda millonaria por colusión
Brasil: Grupo Amaggi compra a Ciapar
España: Grupo hotelero Barceló abandona fusión con rival NH
R. Dominicana: Protestan energías renovables tras exclusión en licitaciones
Ecuador: SCPM lanza investigación por cesión de derechos de transmisión de fútbol
España: Renfe deberá enfrentar ‘Competencia total’ en transporte
EEUU: Nueva era para Alaska Airlines tras compra de Virgin
China: Gobierno critica a EEUU tras impedir fusión de Moneygram
India: Vodafone e Idea, cerca de concretar fusión
EEUU/UE: Regulación de plataformas electrónicas daña a la innovación, dice ABA
Competition Buzz: From object to effect and from reason to per se: The RECAPT decision and the standard of proof to sanction cartels in Ecuador
Spain: Bankia – BMN merger enters final stages
Argentina: Telecomms Authority greenlights ‘Quadruple-Play’ for telephone operators
Brazil: BP digs into Brazilian market with Copersucar deal
Mexico: COFECE warns tortilla industry against unjustified price-hikes
Spain: CNMC calls for end to Tobacco-sellers’ monopoly
Peru: Regulator fines fuel companies in cartel bust
Chile: Coca-Cola snaps up Guallarauco in $80 million purchase
Chile: Coca-Cola compra marca Guallarauco por USD$80 millones
De objeto a efecto y de razón a per se La decisión RECAPT y el estándar de prueba para sancionar carteles en Ecuador
Perú: INDECOPI desactiva cártel en Gas Licuado
México: COFECE advierte a productores de tortilla contra posible aumento
Brasil: BP aumenta presencia con nuevo acuerdo con Copersucar
Argentina: ENACOM autoriza el ‘Cuadruple Play’ a Claro y Telefónica
España: Con reforma a la ley, CNMC busca acabar con monopolio en venta de tabaco
EEUU: Ejecutivo petroquímico admite manipulación a licitaciones
UE: Vestager anuncia nuevo enfoque en ‘Big Data’
Alemania: Autoridad de Competencia prepara sanciones contra Facebook
España: Bankia y Mare Nostrum concretan fusión
EEUU: Sanción contra Apple por caso Qualcomm
Competition Buzz: Third Parties under Merger Review in Brazil
Spain: Regulator charges Fenosa & Endesa with price-rigging
Mexico: Heineken fined by regulator; preparing appeal
Brazil: Metro-building cartel affects 8 states, probe finds
Spain: CNMC bashes Gov. plans to regulate Uber & Cabify
Argentina: CNDC to review Monsanto/Bayer merger over concentration concerns
Chile: Foreign experts called to back up supermarket collusion claim
UE: Comisión revela decisión en caso Google
Tendencias de Competencia: Los Terceros ante la Ley de Revisión de Concentraciones de Brasil
México: COFECE sanciona a Heineken por incumplimiento; cervecera apelará decisión
Colombia: Sanción a Cemex, Argos y Holcim en cártel del cemento
Brasil: Cártel afecta construcción de metro en ocho estados de Brasil: CADE
España: Plan para regular a Uber y Cabify restringe competencia – CNMC
Argentina: Revisa CNDC nivel de concentración por fusión Monsanto/Bayer
Chile: Expertos internacionales asisten a FNE para probar colusión en supermercados
Canadá: Multa a fabricante japonés tras manipular licitación
EEUU: Uber se somete a investigación criminal por robo de información
China: MOFCOM comienza revisión a fusión de Toshiba
España: CNMC acusa a Fenosa y Endesa de alterar precios de energía
EEUU: Senadora pide audiencia para revisar acuerdo Disney-Fox
EEUU: DOJ demanda a AT&T, bloqueando fusión con Time Warner
México: Leyes que regulan a notarios, ‘Barrera más absurda’
Tendencias en Competencia: ¿Por qué (no) hablar acerca de la sociología de la competencia?
Competition Buzz: Why (not) talk about the sociology of competition?
Chile: ANFP recula: Barnechea jugará sin pagar cuota
Applying the Gravity Model to Analysis of Corporate Governance in Mergers and Acquisitions in Latin America
Brazil/Mexico: Lala makes US$1.9b offer to enter Brazil
Spain: ACS mulling move to snatch Abertis sale from rival
Chile: Baxter Pharmaceuticals targeted by FNE
Argentina: New payments players enter market after PRISMA cut-down
El Salvador: Court seizes US$2.6mn from company over refusal to pay fine
Argentina’s CNDC, Lacking the “Big Guns” in the Fight Against Monopolies
Mexico: IFT sets guidelines for América Móvil Internet Services
Brazil: CADE greenlights JBS sale to Minerva
Argentina: ENACOM sets new conditions on Telecom-Cablevisión Merger — taking back broadcast spectrum
Chile: Court requests airline info in LATAM-IAG review
Peru: Public Ministry requests 12-year sentence for former governor
Colombia: AUTECO sues spare parts importer for unfair competition
Spain: CNMC probes Industrial Maintenance sector
Argentina: CNDC and Ministries to lower logistics costs
Mexico: New COFECE ruling on Mexico City Airport ‘slots’
Argentina: Alianza CNDC y Ministerios para abaratar logística
Competition Buzz: The Blockchain Technology Revolution and its Impact on Economic Sectors
Chile: LATAM Airlines holds firm on Joint Venture plans
Colombia: Cabify slams Ministry’s ‘luxury taxi’ scheme
Peru: Gov. to break dairy monopoly through direct sales
Brazil: Iberdrola-driven merger creates Latin America’s largest energy company
Spain: Competition regulator to probe government construction contracts
Spain: Santander ‘rescues’ Banco Popular… for €1
México: COFECE multa a PEMEX por incumplimiento
Mexico: Regulators join forces to go after colluding banks
Chile: FNE moving on possible fuel monopoly
Peru: Government shuns former Odebrecht partners from reconstruction contracts
Colombia: Pay TV demands an end to ‘unfair competition’ from Netflix, Amazon
Spain: Unicaja wavers between merger and IPO
Spain: Airbnb and crew find backers in CNMC
The 5th anniversary of Brazilian Antitrust Law: quo vadis?
Chile: FNE recommends cost-based cap on Transbank
Argentina: Protesters gather against Bayer/Monsanto merger
Colombia: SIC pulls curtain on new industry cartel
Peru: Fishermen call out price fixing
Spain: Market-skewing Law College fined by regulator
Spain: CNMC probes railroad equipment industry
Competition Buzz: Social Control as a Means of Preventing Anticompetitive Regulations
Brazil: Regulator urges criminal charges against State owned postal service
Peru: Shipping companies fined for collusion
Chile: Looking for merger, Latam, American and IAG airlines offer new compromises
Colombia: SIC gives AT&T/Comcast merger go-ahead
Latam: UNESCO urges regulators to act against media concentration
Spain: Uber report highlights hight cost of taxi “monopoly”
Argentina: Quilmes accused of abusing dominance
Colombia: Booking Colombia probed over unfair practices
Peru: Viva Air Peru accused of unfair competition, false advertising
Chile: Citing concentration concerns, Legislators attempt to block broadcaster sales
Spain: Douglas scoops up Beauty Bell amid store shutdowns
Spain: Regulator launches public consultation on Telefónica access rates
Competition Buzz: The Convergence between Intellectual Property and Competition Law under Ecuadorian Legislation
Chile: FNE to look into merger of Spanish-language publishing giants
Colombia: SIC tears down private security cartel
Mexico: Congressmen agree to cut IFT powers
Peru: Business groups speak out against merger control
Competition Buzz: Merger Review as a Defense Against Hostile Tender Offers: Comments on the Case Oracle/Peoplesoft
Brazil: Heineken ends distribution agreement with Coca-Cola
Spain: Mediaset defends legitimacy of media duopoly
Spain: CNMC and Canaries High Court strike down restrictions on vacation rentals
Competition Buzz: The Internet Broadband Market Failures: Lessons for Public Policy Design
Brazil: Fiscal regulator calls Dow purchase of Agromen ‘irregular’
Chile: Commission suspects laboratory collusion
Peru: INDECOPI weighs supermarket sanctions
Argentina: In boon to construction, Government pushes to lower prices
Colombia: Bayer and monsanto look for SIC approval
Spain: CNMC fines Telefónica for inflating lease prices
Spain: CNMC asks major Gas companies to act as ‘market creators’
Mexico: PEMEX resumes asset sales
Argentina: Talks of Shell exit raise alarms in gasoline sector
Mexico: América Móvil and IFT to work together for better rule implementation
Peru: Investigation over Interoceanic highway corruption widens
Chile: Carlyle Group makes new offer for EMV – Founders ask for vote to be delayed
Spain: Basketball Association ready to fight €400k euro sanction
Spain: Regulator to break open VMO market
Vertical Integration and Managerial Contracts: Strategic Tools in Imperfect Markets
México: COFECE pone freno a fusión de Sanofi-Boehringer
Mexico: Congress moves to remove IFT powers
México: ChemChina, un paso más cerca de adquirir Syngenta
Chile: Competition court rejects abuse of dominance suit against Claro, Movistar and Entel
Brazil: CADE to look into Maersk sale of Mercosul shipping co.
Peru: INDECOPI charges 66 gas companies for price-fixing
Colombia: Odebrecht scandal delays hundreds of projects: Union
Mexico: Nominees to head Competition and Telecom regulators revealed
Spain: Regulator forces Telefónica to drop rates up to 35%
Brazil: CADE and local law firm take home competition prize
Argentina: Government launches gasoline price-tracking app
Chile: Businesses warn of risk to competition from new Recycling Law
Mexico: COFECE clears OHL asset sale – 80% of hotel shares sold
Competition Buzz: The Effects of the Liberalization of Peruvian Urban Transport: Two Analytical Points of View on Public Dominion of Road Networks after Two Decades of ‘Market’
Colombia: SIC fines mobile operators over product bundling
Spain: National Assembly strikes down CNMC ruling against oil companies
Spain: CNMC moves against price-fixing in high-school textbooks
Colombia: Sanciona SIC a operadores por condicionar beneficios
Competition Buzz: Efficacy and Asymmetries of the Leniency Programs on a Multi-Market Context: An Analysis of the Colombian Case Under the FTA with the U.S.
Mexico: Service station group to request permission for joint fuel purchases
Chile: New charges of collusion presented against drug-store chains
Argentina: Pampa Energía gets go-ahead for takeover of Petrobras facilities
Peru: 20 years on, trial to begin on warplane purchase bid-rigging
Uruguay: Small Businesses rise against Credit Cards over abuse of dominance
Spain: Siemens-GAMESA windpower giant kicks off
Spain: CNMC to fine Big Pharma collusion
Brazil: Iberdrola digs into local renewables market with Força Eólica buy
Chile: SCA appeal may put brakes on payment of compensations
Argentina: VISA operators reveal disinvestment plan
Colombia: Uber and Cabify snubbed by Special Transport law
Spain: Brussels leans on Spain to end stowage monopoly
Spain: Regulator launches probe into wholesale drug market
Competition Buzz: Did Separating Openreach from British Telecom Benefit Consumers?
Uruguay: New rules at Montevideo port a boon to monopoly, say small operators
Chile: Probe launched into insurance market over dominance abuse
Peru: Probe into Odebrecht bribe scandal widened
Spain: Regulator to probe ENDESA and FENOSA over high energy prices
Spain: CNMC to seek higher penalties for executives
Competition Buzz: For Mexico, the Key to Economic Growth is Staying the Course on Telecom Reform
Mexico: Televisa declared preponderant in Pay TV
Chile: CMPC makes good on cartel compensation payments
Brazil: AccorHotels snaps up 26 hotels from BHG
Colombia: Struggle over unfair business practices grows as supermarkets trade barbs
Uruguay: Alert over new monopoly as Molino Dolores closes down
Dominican Rep.: FENATRADO accused of transport monopoly
Mexico: Energy regulator to launch Power Generation marketplace
Spain: Regulator dismantels Asturias cement cartel
Competition Buzz: Vertical Integration and Media Regulation in the New Economy
Mexico: Aeromexico begins handing over Mexico City airport slots
Paraguay: Central Bank blows whistle on international bank card monopoly
Brazil: Arcelor Mittal & Votorantim merge Brazilian assets
Peru: Odebrecht, other Brazilian companies’ assets seized
Colombia: Regulator asks for 5-year ban for companies found guilty of conspiring
Spain: Government goes after ship-loader monopoly
Spain: €227 million in fines and 9 cartels, the tally for the CNMC
Perú: Embargan propiedades de Odebrecht
UE: Regulador listo para aprobar fusión de Dow – DuPont
España: Gobierno rompe monopolio de la estiba en puertos
EEUU: Acusan a fabricantes de insulina de elevar precios en 120%
Ucrania: Tribunal rechaza a Gazprom; sostiene multa de $6,400 mdd
España: €227 millones en multas; nueve cárteles desmantelados por CNMC
EEUU: Juez desecha gran parte del caso de manipulación Euribor
What kind of Net Neutrality Regulation Does Mexico Want?
Mexico/Brazil: PEMEX to probe Odebrecht bribes
Mexico: COFECE files criminal charges over bid-rigging in health sector
Brazil: CADE approves sale of CELG to Enel Brazil
Chile: Court postpones hearing to settle Tissue Cartel compensations
Colombia: SIC clamps down on cattle cartel
Uruguay: New taxes announced for Uber
Spain: Chinese group looks to merge two Spanish heavyweights
Spain: CNMC accuses Vigo harbour companies of uncompetitive practices
Tendencias en Competencia: ¿Qué clase de regulación busca México para la Neutralidad de la Red?
México/Brasil: Pemex investiga sobornos de Odebrecht
México: Presenta COFECE denuncia ante Procuraduría por prácticas monopólicas
Brasil: CADE aprueba venta de CELG a Enel Brazil
Chile: Juzgado suspende audiencia de conciliación en caso Tissue
Colombia: Sanciona autoridad a cártel ganadero
Uruguay: Imponen impuesto a Uber
Sudáfrica: Acusa regulador a 12 bancos por colusión
España: Empresa china sondea inversión en OHL e Isolux
Corea del Sur: Detienen a heredero de Samsung, Lee Jae-Yong
EEUU/Reino Unido: Kraft retira oferta de $186 mmdd por Unilever
España: CNMC acusa a empresas del Puerto de Vigo por prácticas anticompetitivas
EEUU: Accionistas de Time Warner aprueban fusión con AT&T
Mexico: COFECE looking to rub out restrictions on gas stations
Brazil: Heineken makes $706 million purchase of Kirin Brasil
Chile: FNE dismisses concerns over Watts/Danone merger
Region: Odebrecht bribery scandal spreads throughout LA
Colombia: Trial ordered against “Surveillance Tsar”
El Salvador: Volaris gets ready for take off
Spain: Regulator fines EDP Energía over end-of-contract penalties
Spain: CNMC push to free up Commercial Vehicle Inspection system
The Value of Checks and Balances: “Non“ Dominance in Restricted TV and Audio in Mexico
Competition Buzz: Pricing Policy – A New Methodology Based on Cost-Competitive Structure of the Company
Mexico: COFECE goes after medical Latex and Oxygen market manipulators
Brazil: CADE recommends blocking Kroton and Estació merger
Chile: Brazilian steelmaker Gerdau casts eye on Chilean venture
Colombia: Avianca-United Airlines pact, latest in Latin American airline shake-up
Perú: Judge upholds monopoly in car inspection services to Lidercon
Ecuador: Regulator warns Miller/InBev, threatening roll-back of merger
Spain: Regulator issues recommendations on resource contracts
Spain: CNMC strikes at Aspen pharmaceutical group over market power abuse
Ecuador: SPCM advierte a SABMiller e InBev, amenaza con revertir fusión
Competition Buzz: Some Thoughts on Competition Torts, Their Aims and Effectiveness
Mexico: MONEX and Ventura Capital sign $72 million USD deal
Brazil: CADE sanctions shipping cartel
Argentina: BA District attorney orders arrest of Uber directors
Peru: Five indicted over Lima subway contract bribery
Chile: CMPC to pay $150 million in damages
Mexico: Supreme Court strikes down PEMEX fine
Spain: Competition watchdog fines 5 companies in battery cartel
Competition Buzz: Failure of Spanish Law to Prevent and Correct Bid Rigging in Public Procurement
Brazil: Andrade Gutiérrez & UTC to pay $61.5 million in CADE settlement
Chile: Prosecutors push to end Transbank’s monopoly
Colombia: Familia group makes payment over diaper cartel
El Salvador: Regulator reveals low competition, entry barriers in rice industry
Argentina: In blow against Credit Cards, gov. brings back cash-payment discount
Spain: Regulator probes bid rigging in railroad equipment
Spain: Up to €48 bn in losses from lack of competition, regulator finds
Competition Buzz: Merger Review as a Defense Against Hostile Tender Offers: Comments on the Case Oracle/Peoplesoft
Mexico: COFECE calls for easing restrictions to increase number of gas stations
Chile: SQM to pay $30 million fine for political meddling
Argentina: Telefónica and Claro denounce preferential treatment of rival Grupo Clarín
Colombia: Cruz Verde pharmacies caught in new price-fixing scheme
Peru: Dairy industry denies price-fixing; rejects potential M&A regulation
Spain: CNMC clears €305 million euro takeover of Tecnocom by Indra
Spain: Illegal dismissals pose threat to restructuring at CNMC
Competition Buzz: Market Power in Electric Energy Generation Spot Markets: Analysis Methodology
Brazil: M&A slows down as closer scrutiny and corruption crackdown loom
Chile: CMPC rejects consumer watchdog lawsuit over price-fixing damages
Argentina: Government reform breaks open Telecommunications sector
Perú: Several projects to seek M&A rules for 2017
Colombia: Claro rejects being dominant in mobile internet market
Spain: More mergers expected in Spanish food sector
Spain: €5 million fine on Telefónica over “false malfunctions”
Mexico: Shipping companies fight COFECE sanctions
Brazil/Colombia: Colombian group buys Brazil power company for $320 million
Chile: Cartel case against Kimberly Clark and CMPC dismissed
Argentina: Former president indicted on ‘illicit association’ and bid corruption
Colombia: Government fines paper cartel
Peru: Government bans Brazilian builder from official contracts
Spain: With boost from Ministry, plan to split CNMC moves forward
Spain: CNMC to rotate Councillors, in move to thwart dissenters
Competition Buzz: Vertical Integration and Managerial Contracts: Strategic Tools in Imperfect Markets
Brazil: Vale sells fertilizer business for $2.5 bn
Uruguay: LG, Samsung & others facing price-fixing sanctions
Chile: Walmart Manager denies price-fixing agreement
Ecuador: Guayaquil Chamber of Commerce rejects Capital Gains Law
Mexico: Left-wing Deputies demand IFT crack down on cell-phone abuses
Spain: State post service ‘Correos’ leading on-line deliveries with 46% of market
Spain: Bank of Spain to watch over finance sector mergers
Competition Buzz: Price Elasticity of Demand and its Relevance in Terms of Welfare in a Monopolistic Market
México: COFECE se opone a acuerdo Sanofi-Boehringer
Competition Buzz: The New Rules of the Brazilian Antitrust Authority on Associative Agreements
Mexico: COFECE makes recommendations as gasoline market prepares to spring open
Brazil: CADE slaps fine on five banks over exchange rate tampering
Chile: Central Bank puts forth new nominees for TDLC position
Colombia: Companies demand better Telecommunications regulation
Peru: Centrum, Consultants offer harsh criticism of country’s competition laws
Ecuador: Heineken backs SCPM, looks to invest in Ecuador
Spain: Ticket re-sale market stirs up trouble
Spain: CNMC fines CRTVE over self-promotion excess
Competition Buzz: Market Failures and Economic Regulation in Public Utilities. Approaches to a Discipline Poorly Understood by Lawyers
Mexico: Slim’s Telcel purchases 60MHz from rival Grupo MVS
Brazil: CADE approves Technip/FMC global merger
Chile: IDB to grant $100 million to improve energy market
Colombia: SIC exposes new bid-rigging scheme
Peru: Reporters Without Borders speaks out against media concentration
El Salvador: Regulator holds First Annual University Competition Contest
Spain: CNMC approves MyTaxi and Hailo merger
Spain: Congress receives plan to split up CNMC
El Salvador: Celebra Superintendencia Concurso Interuniversitario de Competencia
México: Gobierno anuncia licitación de bloques de petróleo y gas
Mexico: COFECE looks into concentration in fledgeling gasoline market
Chile: Economic Prosecutor sets rules for mandatory merger reviews
Argentina: Telecom and Fintech merger approved
Region: Andean Community will look into Tissue Paper cartel effects
Mexico: Telecomms regulator to probe TV advertising market
Spain: CNMC clears sale of Repsol supply points to Fenosa
Spain: CNMC finds troubling trend in fuel market
Competition Buzz: Competition Law in the Colombian Aeronautical Sector
Competition Buzz: What to Keep in Mind to Improve the Design of Public Tenders and Prevent Cartel Formation in Argentina
Mexico: COFECE calls for ending barriers to airport taxi operators
Region: COPEC to buy off Exxon lubricant and fuel business across Andes region
Argentina: CNDC moving forward against Credit Card operators
Colombia: Government agencies unite against business cartels
Spain: CNMC may to turn to Brussels to prevent split-up
Spain: Prosegur & Loomis slapped with €46 million fine over market sharing
México: COFECE va contra barreras a taxis en Aeropuertos
Brasil: CADE firma acuerdo de clemencia con Andrade Gutierrez
Brasil/Chile: Aprueban unión de LATAM/Qatar Airways
Región: COPEC compra negocios a Exxon en Colombia, Ecuador y Perú
Argentina: Avanza acción de CNDC contra tarjetas de crédito
Colombia: SIC y Fiscalía unirán esfuerzos contra cartelización
Tendencias en Competencia: ¿Que tener en cuenta para mejorar el diseño de las licitaciones públicas y evitar la cartelización en Argentina?
Italia: Gobierno implementa directriz para compensar daños por faltas a la competencia
China: Apple se enfrenta a regulador de consumidores
España: CNMC pedirá apoyo a UE para evitar desmembramiento
EEUU: Delta pide a Washington reconsiderar propuesta con Aeroméxico
España: Prosegur y Loomis, sancionados con €46 millones por repartir mercado
EEUU: Suprema Corte desecha apelación de Visa y MasterCard
Mexico: Airport unwilling to act on slots issue, says DOT
Brazil: CADE approves formation of credit bureau
Argentina: Competition agency asks to participate in public tender bids
Chile: Supermarkets present witnesses in collusion trial
Ecuador: Regulator raids pre-paid medicine companies
Colombia: Country to hold International Competition Congress, November 17-18
Spain: Minister’s niece returns to CNMC
Spain: New Gov. begins regulator reshuffle
Competition Buzz: The OECD Viewpoint on Harmful Tax Competition
Spain: Movistar still ahead as Pay-TV market grows
Spain: Pepsi bottlers’ merger feud continues
Argentina: CNDC considering probe into tissue paper market
Colombia: Regulator to probe optometrist guild over barriers
Peru: Competition watchdog “powerless” to prevent price-fixing, says President
Ecuador: Heineken warns of beer monopoly brewing
Competition Buzz: Venezuela’s Competition Law’s Honeymoon
México: Aprueban temporalmente Inmunidad para Delta/Aeroméxico
Brasil: Acuerdo de LATAM y IAG causaría problemas en competencia – CADE
Argentina: Evalúa CNDC investigar mercado de tissue
Colombia: Investigará SIC a optómetras por obstrucción de mercado
Perú: Indecopi, sin poder para evitar manipulación de precios
Ecuador: Heineken advierte por posible monopolio en Ecuador
Tendencias en Competencia: Noches De Boda Para El Derecho De La Competencia En Venezuela
EEUU: Demanda contra Uber se desinfla
España: Movistar continúa al frente de creciente mercado de TV de Paga
EEUU/Japón: Corte anula multa por $43 millones a empresa tecnológica
EEUU: Fiscal insta a rechazar acuerdo “irresponsable” de Mylan
España: Pepsi, con problemas tras fusión de embotelladoras
UE: Suspenden de nuevo fusión Dow-DuPont
Competition Buzz: Turnover as a Criterion for Setting Fines in Competition Law
Mexico: Competition & Telecomm regulators look for new Commissioners
Brazil: Competition watchdog to rule over Grupo Alfa’s proposed Petrobras purchase
Chile: New depths of supermarket collusion revealed
Peru: Five drug store chains caught in price-fixing scheme
Mexico: COFECE will keep eye on new gasoline market
Dominican Rep.: 80-plus organizations join to oppose monopoly in transport sector
Argentina: ‘Competition Week’ begins in Buenos Aires
Spain: Country on the brink of merger boom, says consulting firm
Spain: CNMC President stands up for ‘super-regulator’ benefits
Argentina: Arranca CNDC Semana de la Competencia
Competition Buzz: Empirical Evidence of Market Power in Natural Gas Vehicle Minority Industries
Brazil: Watchdog concludes probe into cement sector
Argentina: Leniency laws passed after Lower Chamber approval
Ecuador/Colombia: Ecuador reaches out in tissue paper cartel investigation
Peru: Congressional commission to draft M&A rules announced
Chile: New rules force re-shuffling at top companies
Spain: GAMESA shareholders set to pass Siemens merger, creating windpower giant
Spain: CNMC publishes results of Shared Economy survey
Competition Buzz:Concentration, Oligopoly and Large Profits in Colombian Banks (2000-2009)
Mexico: Regulator celebrates launch of new nation-wide TV network
Chile: Sector unions slam airline alliance
Argentina: Brewer’s merger to transform Argentina beer market
Mexico: COFECE to focus on transport sector
Peru: Following merger, AB Inbev looms over local market
Brazil: Antitrust regulator putting Bovespa through hoops before merger
Spain: ‘Rebel’ CNMC group push for caution in handling of Uber, Airbnb
Spain: Bankia-BMN merger ruffles banker feathers
Brasil: CADE pide más información a BM&F Bovespa antes de aprobar fusión
Competition Buzz: The Role of Remedies Imposed by Competition Authorities in Merger Procedures: An Applied Analysis to the Retail Sector
Mexico: Prison time for fuel price-fixers in new open market
Chile: Compensation for consumers affected by ‘paper cartel’ to be ready this year, says company
Colombia: New law to weaken ‘official’ liquor monopolies
Argentina: Santander closes deal to buy exiting Citigroup’s assets
Spain: Regulator fines Lawyer Colleges over price-setting advice
Spain: CNMC hosts ICN Cartel Workshop 2016
Competition Buzz: United Kingdom Electric Sector Reforms and Integration
Chile: Enersis board approves Latin America-wide merger
Peru: Support grows for new M&A law
Mexico: New rules coming for airline ‘slots’
Argentina: Government to back alternative to VISA
Colombia: Operators vie for position in future of mobile broadband
Spain: EC urges Spain to act on Energy monopolies
Competition Buzz: A Miscellany of Regulatory Obstacles to Competition
Spain: Regulator to tackle advertising oligarchs
Spain: Lobby registry off to a shaky start
Argentina: Supermarket ‘abuse’ prompts complaints over competition
Chile: FNE goes after Vertical Integration violators
Colombia: Regulator sets historic record in competition fines
Ecuador: Fears grow over possible ‘seed monopoly’
Competition Buzz: Can the State Infringe the Competition Laws When Sourcing Goods or Hiring Services in the Market?
Mexico: COFECE to pursue 10-year prison terms for cartel involvement
Brazil: Globo media group takes Newspaper from close associate/media rival
Argentina: Newcomer to shake up mobile market
Chile: Competition tribunal rejects suit against Claro and Movistar
Peru: Gagliuffi sets new goals for market regulator
Ecuador: Claro escapes 82 million dollar fine
Spain: Yoigo – MasMovil merger will mean sharp blow to telecom sector, analyst finds
Spain: Regulator puts end to overseas movers’ cartel
Tendencias en Competencia: ¿Pueden las Administraciones Públicas infringir el Derecho de la competencia cuando adquieren bienes o contratan servicios?
México: Se pedirá hasta 10 años de cárcel por formar cártel – COFECE
Brasil: Grupo Globo toma oferta de Folha para hacerse de diario Valor Económico
Argentina: Nuevo rival podrá sacudir mercado de telefonía móvil
Chile: Rechaza TDLC demanda contra Móvistar y Claro
Perú: Define Gagliuffi nuevas prioridades para Indecopi
Ecuador: Multa de 82 millones a Claro es suspendida
España: Fusión de Yoigo y MásMóvil golpeará ingresos del sector en 2017
España: Sanciona regulador cártel de mudanzas internacionales
Japón: Apple y Google perjudican a la competencia – Reporte
EEUU: Bayer adquiere a Monsanto por $66 mil millones, desatando controversia
EEUU: Músicos demandan a DOJ por ‘favorecer’ a Google
UE: Fusión de Deutsche y LSE enfrenta nuevo escrutinio
Mexico: Regulator hit by austerity budget
Competition Buzz: An Analysis of Cartel Case ‘Pharmacies’ and Its Prospects
Mexico: Gasoline market to be opened up – ‘gradually’
Chile: Authorities discuss Competition Defense
Brazil: Competition watchdog sets own limits for ‘fast-track’ merger review
Argentina: Regulator strikes – Up to $10 million fine on VISA
Spain: Regulator fines cement makers for $30 million
Tendencias en Competencia: Comentarios A Algunos Aspectos Del Caso De Colusión De Farmacias Y Sus Proyecciones
México: Austeridad afecta a IFT
Uruguay: Gran victoria para Uber
México: Liberalización de gasolinas será gradual hasta 2019
Chile: Debaten autoridades sobre Libre Competencia
Brasil: CADE fija plazos para revisión de fusiones ‘Fast-Track’
Argentina: CNDC actúa – hasta $10 millones contra VISA
España: Destapa CNMC a cártel en Cemento – 29 millones en multas
España: CNMC aprueba compra de Yoigo por MásMóvil
Reino Unido: Mastercard enfrenta demanda por $19 mil millones – la mayor en la historia británica
EEUU: Dell concreta compra de EMC por $60 mil millones
EEUU: DOJ finaliza investigación a AB InBev
Israel: Comisionado de competencia pide más servicios como Uber
Mexico: Decision over ‘Preponderant’ companies pushed back to 2017
Chile: Government plans to ‘liberate’ electric sector
Argentina: Businesses lash out against “monopolistic logic” of credit card companies
Spain: Self-service gas stations push back against ‘unfair’ restrictions
Colombia: Cable operators may not broadcast Caracol and RCN signals (without permission)
Peru: Dozens march against Uber, clogging Lima streets
Brasil: Autoriza CADE a bancos formar Buró de Crédito
Does the Ecuadorian Competition Authority Lack focus?
Tendencias en Competencia: Ecuador – ¿Es la Autoridad de Competencia una Entidad Dispersa?
Brasil: Gobierno rechaza acuerdo de clemencia para naviera holandesa
México: Resolución sobre preponderancia pospuesta a 2017
Chile: Prepara gobierno plan para ‘liberar’ mercado eléctrico
Argentina: Critican PyMES ‘lógicas monopólicas’ de tarjetas de crédito
Colombia: Operadores de Cable no podrán emitir señales de Caracol y RCN
Perú: Marchan decenas de taxistas contra Uber
España: Gasolineras desatendidas critican trabas a su actividad
España: CNMC sanciona a Nissan Iberia, concesionarios
EEUU: Gobierno presenta demanda contra Deere y Monsanto
UE: Veredicto sobre Apple es injusto, dice ex-comisionada
China: Gobierno lanza investigación por acuerdo entre Didi y Uber
EEUU: Nexstar podrá comprar Media General por $4,600 millones
Mexico: Telmex – still dominant, court says
Brazil: CADE accuses 11 LN gas companies of collusion
Colombia: Notebook maker Carvajal lashes back vs. competition authorities
Chile: Electric giant requests authorities to allow vertical integration
Uruguay: Talks stalled between Uber and Government
Argentina: Competition authority presents Credit Card and E-payment sector analysis
Spain: PP and Ciudadanos make plans to split market regulator
España: Proponen PP y Ciudadanos dividir CNMC
Argentina: Presenta CNDC análisis a mercado de tarjetas de crédito y pagos electrónicos.
Tendencias en Competencia: Entrevista con Esteban Greco, Presidente de la CNDC
Uruguay: Estancada, negociación de Uber con autoridades
Chile: Pide gigante eléctrico permitir integración vertical en sector
Colombia: Rechaza Carvajal acusaciones de la Superintendencia
Argentina: Analiza gobierno ‘ley de góndolas’ para promover competencia
Brasil: CADE acusa a 11 empresas de gas licuado de colusión
México: Telmex, aún preponderante
México: Analizan monopolio de transporte en Sinaloa
España: Pide CNMC acabar con ‘prohibición’ a gasolineras de autoservicio
España: Anula tribunal multas a Barcelona FC y Real Madrid por faltas de competencia
UE: LSE y Deutsche presentan plan de fusión
UE: Comisión Europea niega sesgo anti-estadounidense en investigaciones
EEUU: Clinton ataca ‘escandaloso’ aumento en precios de EpiPen
EEUU: FTC aprueba cambios a reglas Hart-Scott-Rodino
Competition Buzz: Acquisition of Competitive Advantages by Generating a Strategic Territory
Brazil: Praxair-Linde merger may wobble over Brazil hurdle
Chile: Laws bolstering competition regime signed
Colombia: $20 million fine on Notebook Cartel confirmed
Ecuador: Craft brewers raise doubts about AB InBev/SABMiller Merger
Spain: After wave of mergers, new ranking released for telephone operators
Spain: Regulator’s recommendations on Designation of Origin laws
Tendencias en Competencia: Adquisición de Ventajas Competitivas Mediante la Generación de un Territorio Estratégico
México: Arranca acuerdo aeronáutico con EEUU para incrementar competencia
Brasil: Fusión de Praxair y Linde podría enfrentar obstáculo brasileño
Uruguay: Uber con luz verde tras vencer queja de Taxistas
Chile: Promulgan ley para fortalecer libre competencia
Colombia: Multa de $20 millones a cártel de Cuadernos
Ecuador: Cerveceras artesanales cuestionan fusión AB InBev/SABMiller
España: Informa CNMC sobre proyecto de Denominaciones de Origen
España: Tras fusiones, nuevo Ranking de operadores en Telefonía
EEUU: Lyft pide $9 mil millones – Uber ofrece dos
Rusia: Google pierde apelación
EEUU: Juez confirma litigio contra AMC en favor de público hispano
India: Banco más grande del país aprueba plan de consolidación
Competition Buzz: Almost Ideal Demand System For Fuels in the Transport Industry
Mexico: Supreme Court to review rules on Uber and Cabify
Brazil: Despite accounting errors, Kronos stands firm on Estácio purchase
Uruguay: Defying courts, government maintains control of broadband
Honduras: National Free Competition Day celebrated with Disruptive Tech Forum
Peru: Protestors prompt regulator to take a look at Liquified Gas market
Spain: Hailo and MyTaxi look towards Europe as Spain merger is launched
Spain: Regulator seeking fine on Vodafone over broken interconnection agreement
España: Con miras a Europa, Hailo y MyTaxi se fusionan
Tendencias en Competencia: Un Modelo Casi Ideal De Demanda De Combustibles Para La Industria De Transporte
México: Suprema Corte revisará regulación de Uber y Cabify
Chile: Tribunal examinará los efectos de operación conjunta de LATAM
Brasil: A pesar de errores, Kroton mantiene firme oferta por Estácio
Uruguay: Gobierno desafía a Corte – mantiene monopolio de internet
Honduras: Conmemoran Día Nacional de Libre Competencia con foro sobre Tecnología Disruptiva
Perú: INDECOPI mirará a mercado de Gas LP tras marcha de transportistas
España: Vinicultores franceses acusan a España de competencia desleal
España: Buscan sanción a Vodafone por violar acuerdo de interconexión
EEUU: Juez da fecha definitiva para juicio a Aetna-Humana
Australia: Riña de Apple se recrudece contra bancos por Apple Pay
EEUU: Observador independiente busca bloquear compra multimillonaria de Danone
UE: Mega-fusión Dow/DuPont se tambalea frente dudas por efectos a la competencia
Brasil: Regulador recomienda multa para Petrobras
Competition Buzz: Uber and the Regulation of Public and Private Individual Transport in Chile. Part 1
Mexico: Candy makers, citing sugar spike, go to competition watchdog
Brazil: Ultrapar-Chevron joint-op shakes fuel additive market
Argentina: Business Community bashes “VISA Monopoly”
Chile: FNE accuses Biosano and Sanderson labs of bid rigging
Panama: Minister accuses Colombia of blocking competition
Ecuador: Government pushes to boost competition in government contracts
Tendencias en Competencia: Uber y la regulación del transporte público y privado de pasajeros en Chile, Pt.1
México: Piden empresarios intervención de COFECE ante precios de azúcar
Brasil: Ultrapar se une a Chevron en venta de aditivos
Argentina: Critican empresas “Monopolio VISA”
Chile: FNE acusa a laboratorios Biosano y Sanderson de colusión
Panamá: Reclama ministro a Colombia por montar barreras a la competencia
Ecuador: Lanzan autoridades iniciativa para mejorar contratación pública, incentivar competencia
España: Regulador exige a Telefónica dar acceso a red de fibra a competidores
España: Inicia CNMC expediente contra empresas de mensajería
EEUU: Cephalon, a pagar $125 millones en acuerdo con 48 Estados
UE: Comisión aprueba operación de Sanofi-Boehringer por $20 mil millones
Corea del Sur: Samsung, por entrar al juego de autopartes
EEUU: Expertos en competencia advierten contra fusión Bayer-Monsanto
Competition Buzz: The Foundations of Unfair Terms Regulation: An Alternative Economic Analysis
Mexico: Telecomm regulator sees widespread interest in new broadcasting permits
Peru: Steelmaker shuts its doors; points finger at Chinese ‘dumping’
Uruguay: Beermaker denounces barriers to entry
Argentina: Competition regulator abilities expanded
Chile: Pfizer affiliate rejects accusations of market power abuses
Spain: Regulator fines Volvo dealerships over price-fixing cartel
Spain: Santander and Unicredit’s joint venture fails
México/Brasil: Alpek busca compra de unidad petroquímica de Petrobras
Tendencias en Competencia: Los Fundamentos de la Regulación de las Cláusulas Abusivas: Un Análisis Económico Alternativo
México: Amplio Interés por licitación en Radio: IFT
Brasil: Petrobras accede a venta de activos a petrolera noruega
Perú: Aceros Arequipa cierra planta; acusa “dumping” de China
Uruguay: Interpone cervecera denuncias por barreras a la competencia
Argentina: Amplían atribuciones de regulador de competencia
Chile: Filial de Pfizer rechaza conducta abusiva ante TDLC
España: Multa a concesionarias Volvo por cártel
España: Fracasa unión de Santander y Unicredit en gestión de activos
Mundo: OCDE acepta nuevo miembro a Comité de Competencia
Alemania: Fusión de Bolsas de Valores recupera apoyo de accionistas
India: Venta de genéricos impulsa acuerdo de Teva-Allergan
EEUU: Fusión de Virgin y Alaska Airlines libra penúltimo obstáculo
Collusive Tendering: The Paradigmatic Case for Public Entities
Brazil: New Chief Economist named for regulator’s Economic Studies Department
Mexico: COFECE to probe generic drug market
Chile: Uber to accept cash payment, renewing Taxi drivers’ anger
Ecuador: Regulator finds irregularity in reverse auction process
Argentina: Government will strengthen competition law enforcement
Peru: Country’s fifth mobile operator kicks off
Spain: Valencia investment groups merge amid continuing uncertainty
Spain: Orange and MásMóvil join forces to deploy Optic Fibre
EEUU: Caen los Gigantes – el Fin de Yahoo!
Competition Buzz: Intermodal Telecommunications Infrastructure Sharing : Evidence from Mexico
Spain: CNMC fines car-wash maker over competition blockage
Spain: Holcim Lafarge presents first report following controversial merger
Argentina: OECD highlights country’s progress in competition matters
Brazil: Case Imagine merges with Portugal’s Events by TLC, creating trans-atlantic entertainment force
Chile: New electricity laws will try to boost competition, clean energy
Mexico: Communications regulator grants first-ever concession to Indigenous group
Colombia: Businessman blocks Hyundai sales in commercial dispute
Peru: Gasnorp denounces pressures against gas distribution license
Tendencias en Competencia: Compartición Intermodal De Infraestructura En Telecomunicaciones: Evidencia En México
Perú: Gasnorp acusa de presiones contra concesión de gas natural
Colombia: Empresario bloquea distribución de Hyundai en disputa comercial
México: IFT otorga concesión de telecomunicaciones a asociación indígena
Chile: Nueva ley de transmisión eléctrica incrementará la competencia
Brasil: Case Imagine se fusiona con empresa portuguesa Events by TLC, creando empresa transatlántica
Argentina: OCDE destaca avances de Argentina en Competencia
España: HolcimLafarge España entrega primer reporte tras controversial fusión
España: Fuerte sanción a Istobal por restricciones a la competencia
EEUU: Plantronics recibe sanción de $3 millones por borrar correos en caso de competencia
Australia: Comisión de Competencia advierte sobre fraude electrónico
EEUU: FCC da aprobación a tecnología 5G
UE: Activistas critican posible fusión de Bayer y Monsanto
Competition Law in Latin America and the Caribbean: Statutory Harmonization and Convergence
Mexico: COFECE greenlights Marriott-Starwood merger
Argentina: Renault and Peugeot ready to roll into Pick-up market
Chile: Jail time for price-fixers passed
Colombia: Proposal looks to dismantling liquor monopoly
Venezuela: Kimberly Clark exits country
Brazil: China’s State Grid moves to buy 23% of CPFL
Spain: Vithas Group hits snag in Nisa Hospitals purchase
Spain: Rolls-Royce buys out Spanish turbine maker
Brasil: State Grid busca comprar 23% de CPFL Brasil
Derecho de Competencia en América Latina y el Caribe: Armonización y Convergencia de Estatutos
México: COFECE aprueba fusión de Marriott y Starwood
Argentina: Renault y Peugeot preparan entrada a mercado de Pick-ups
Chile: Aprobada, iniciativa con sanciones penales a la colusión
Colombia: Propuesta buscará desmontar monopolio de licores
Venezuela: Kimberly Clark sale de Venezuela
Brasil: Policía brasileña investiga banco FPB de Panamá
España: Grupo Vithas, con dificultades en compra de Hospitales Nisa
España: Rolls-Royce compra empresa española de Turbinas
Alemania: Volkswagen, BMW y Daimler son investigadas por formar cártel del acero
UE: Comisión acepta concesiones de Maersk y otras navieras
EEUU: Sony Music investigado por colusión
UE: Reguladores preparan nuevos cargos en contra de Google
Mexico: AT&T demands regulator look into Clarovideo’s offerings
Ecuador: Following neighbors, Ecuador moves against paper companies
Panama: Transport companies move against unfair competition
Colombia: Fines on diaper cartel reach US$70 million
Chile: Tissue paper cartel case enters final stages
Spain: Regulator recommends deregulation of Virtual Mobile Operators
España: Comisión Europea exige a clubes de fútbol devolver 69 millones en ayudas ilegales
Tendencias en Competencia: Las Sanciones Penales por Cartelización en México
México: Pide AT&T revisar servicio de Clarovideo
Ecuador: Tras investigación en Chile y Colombia, toma Ecuador caso contra papeleras
Panamá: Transportistas denuncian competencia desleal en fletes
Colombia: Multa de $70 millones a empresas de pañales por colusión
Chile: Caso contra papeleras entra a etapa clave
Brasil: Kroton, a punto de cerrar acuerdo de $1,700 millones con Estácio
España: Autoridades realizan inspección sorpresa a oficinas de Google en Madrid
Francia: Airbus y Safran completan fusión en operación espacial
UE: Monsanto busca alternativas a la oferta de Bayer
EEUU: Cancelado el acuerdo por $7,250 millones de MasterCard y Visa con comerciantes
EEUU: Senadora Warren exige más acción contra concentración en telecomunicaciones
España: Propone autoridad desregular mercado de los Operadores Móviles Virtuales
Mexico: Dow Chemical and DuPont seek Mexico merger for 2017
Brazil: CADE recommends action vs Volkswagen, Fiat and Ford over competition barriers
Chile: Journalists demand probe into concentrated Media sector
Colombia: Port cartel uncovered
Uruguay: Competition complaints at highest level since 2011
Peru: Regulator to publish Market Studies guide
Spain: Metro and Merlin join to create Real Estate heavyweight
Spain: Regulator probes Art Installation services market
Governance, Compliance and Competition Culture in Brazil: Time for an Effective Change
Tendencias en Competencia: Gobernanza, Cumplimiento y la Cultura de la Competencia en Brasil- Hora de un Cambio Efectivo
México: Dow Chemical y DuPont México buscarán fusión en 2017
Brasil: Regulador recomienda acción contra Volkswagen, Ford, por faltas a la competencia
Chile: Solicita colegio de periodistas investigar concentración de Medios
Colombia: Destapan cartel en puertos colombianos
Uruguay: Recibe comisión mayor número de denuncias por competencia desde 2011
Perú: INDECOPI publica guía de Estudios de Mercado
España: Inmobiliarias Metro y Merlín se unen, creando gigante europeo
España: CNMC investiga mercado de servicios de montaje de obras de arte
UE: Salida de Reino Unido hace tambalear fusión de LSE y Deutsche
EEUU: Tesla de Elon Musk compra a Solar City en fusión multimillonaria
EEUU: CBS, Fox, NBC y ESPN evaden sanciones por acuerdos de transmisión de la NFL
UE: ‘Brexit’ afectará al mundo de la Competencia
Competition Buzz: Non-Compliance with Codes of Conduct as an Unfair Competition Practice
Uruguay: Transportation monopoly worries authorities
Peru: Virgin dives into virtual mobile market
Chile: Congress approves tougher penalties on collusion
Mexico: Radio industry critical of new frequencies offers
Colombia: Private security industry regulation shelved, spotlight shines on businessman under suspicion
Spain: Telefónica fined over connectivity deal breach
Mexico: Regulator may annul drug merger over financing trickery
Colombia: Desechada propuesta de regular industria de seguridad privada, revive caso contra empresario
Tendencias en Competencia: Códigos de Conducta y Competencia Desleal: Aspectos Sustantivos y Procesales
México: Critica Industria de la Radio licitación de frecuencias de IFT
México: COFECE revisa venta de Casa Marzam por irregularidades de financiación
Chile: Aprueban diputados sanciones penales por colusión económica
Argentina: Taxis se modernizan ante competencia de Uber
Perú: Virgin entra a mercado móvil virtual
Uruguay: Preocupación por monopolio de transporte en Montevideo
Brasil: Juez cancela prohibición para nombramientos de CSN
España: Sanción a Telefónica por incumplimiento en Líneas Alquiladas
España: Siemens y Gamesa se unen para crear gigante eólico
UE: Coca Cola espera pérdidas por fusión de embotelladoras
India: Regulador desecha quejas contra Vodafone
EEUU: Inversionista acusado de tráfico de información
EEUU: Home Depot presenta queja de competencia contra Visa/Mastercard
Over-the-Top (OTT) Content: Implications and Best Response Strategies of Traditional Telecom Operators- Evidence from Latin America
Colombia: After Novartis staredown, Government to set prices unilaterally
Bolivia/Paraguay: Media accuses government of planning new gas monopoly
Argentina: ‘Casino King’ under pressure, selling off gambling assets
Mexico: Uno TV, not a problem for América Móvil
Chile: FNE accuses Pfizer partner of abusing position
Spain: Regulator warns of losses due to restrictions in cars-for-hire
Spain: Regulator defends free trading hours
Contenido Over-the-Top (OTT): Implicaciones y mejores estrategias de respuesta de los operadores de telecomunicaciones tradicionales. El caso de América Latina
México: Uno TV no viola prohibición a Telmex
Colombia: En reto a Novartis, Gobierno fijará precio de Glivec
Bolivia/Paraguay: Acusan plan para monopolio en distribución de gas
Argentina: ‘Zar del Juego’ bajo investigación, vende casinos
Chile: FNE acusa a Pfizer de abuso de posición dominante
Brasil: Venta de Citi se enfrenta a lupa de reguladores
España: Informa regulador de pérdidas por restricciones a vehículos de alquiler
España: CNMC defiende libertad de horarios comerciales
EEUU: Empresario marítimo hallado culpable de manipulación en precios
Australia: Vodafone NZ y Sky revelarán planes de fusión
Corea del Sur: Regulador de competencia ‘afloja’ reglas para conglomerados
EEUU: Uber, investigado por alegatos de fraude
Economic Foundations of Competition Laws: The Benefits of Monopoly vs. The Benefits of Competition
Mexico: Regulator to launch 148 TV channels in open contest
Region: Avianca looking for new investors
Chile: Canadian mining co.’s plan Joint Venture
Colombia: SIC accuses claro of ignoring asymmetrical obligations
Mexico: Permits issued to begin gasoline imports
Spain: Regulator probes advertising agencies over price fixing
Spain: CNMC fines travel agency cartel
Tendencias en Competencia: Fundamentos Económicos del Derecho de la Competencia – Los Beneficios del Monopolio vs Los Beneficios de la Competencia
Brasil: Kroton Educacional busca comprar a rival por $968 millones
México: IFT licitará 148 canales individuales
Región: Avianca busca inversionistas: Aerolíneas de EEUU en la mira
Chile: Mineras canadienses buscan lanzar proyecto conjunto en Chile
Colombia: SIC amonesta a Claro por incumplir con cargos asimétricos
México: Asignan permisos para importación de gasolina
España: Regulador multa a cártel de agencias de viajes
España: CNMC investiga agencias de publicidad por pactar precios
EEUU: Comerciantes piden a FTC revise legalidad de tarjetas de crédito
EEUU: US Steel podrá buscar bloqueo de importaciones de China
UE: Aprueba comisión unión de Visa Inc con Visa Europe
China: CEO de Microsoft responderá a cargos en caso de competencia
Competition Buzz: Collusion in Bidding Processes for Road Construction Projects
Mexico: Salt industry probed by competition authority
Mexico: AT&T and Telcel secure AWS frequency licenses
Paraguay: Gas agreement will seek to “stimulate competition”, says minister
Argentina: Government to unleash competition in Air travel sector
Colombia: Brewers, unhappy with anti-trust progress
Chile: Price-fixing problems in Viña del Mar housing market
Brazil: CADE launches proceedings against steelmakers
Spain: CNMC approves report on La Liga transmission rights
Spain: CNMC fines Portugal’s Galp over unfair sales strategy
México: COFECE abre investigación a mercado de sal
México: AT&T y Telcel obtienen concesión de banda AWS
Tendencias en Competencia: Colusión En Los Procesos De Licitación De Proyectos De Construcción Vial
Brasil: CADE inicia procedimiento contra asociación acerera
México: Convoca COFECE a Premio de Investigación 2016
Chile: Denuncian manipulación de mercado inmobiliario en Viña del Mar
Colombia: Central Cervecera critica actuación de regulador para evitar monopolios
Argentina: Gobierno busca duplicar sector aéreo, desatando competencia
Paraguay: Acuerdo de venta de gas busca “generar competencia”
España: CNMC aprueba informe sobre licitación de derechos para La Liga
España: CNMC sanciona a Galp por métodos de venta abusivos
China: Gobierno critica investigación de EEUU por supuesta manipulación en Acero
UE: Se avecina multa record a fabricantes de camiones
EEUU: Google vence a Oracle en demanda multimillonaria
EEUU: American Airlines y LATAM buscan inmunidad para Operación Conjunta
Competition Buzz: Failure of Spanish Law to Prevent and Correct Bid Rigging in Public Procurement
Mexico: Entertainment giant probed by regulator
Argentina: Government pushes change to Merger & Acquisition rules to foster competition
Chile: Congress ready to pass new Competition Law
Perú: Competition intensifying in Mobile sector
Colombia: Government squares off against Novartis over cancer drug monopoly
Spain: Coca Cola European to launch, with Spaniard at the helm
Spain: Competition Authority challenges Canary Islands decree
Tendencias en Competencia: Insuficiencia Del Derecho Español Para Impedir Y Corregir La Colusión En La Contratación Pública
México: Grupo CIE, investigado por COFECE
Argentina: Cambios a normas de fusión y adquisición de empresas impulsarán competencia
Chile: Proyecto de Ley de Competencia, a punto de aprobarse
Perú: Crece competencia en telefonía móvil
Colombia: Gobierno se enfrenta a Novartis – Acabarán con monopolio de medicamento contra cáncer
Brasil: Nuevo jefe para Petrobras
España: Coca Cola European saldrá a bolsa, con española a la cabeza
España: Impugna CNMC decreto en Islas Canarias
India/EEUU: Acuerdo con Air India pone fin a saga anti-monopolios
Francia: Ministro advierte a bolsa de Londres – fusión dañaría competencia
EEUU: Cinco bancos demandados por manipular mercado de bonos de $9 billones
EEUU: Asesor de Trump pide investigar a la OPEP por prácticas desleales
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Competition Buzz: Total Strangers or Soul Mates? Antidumping and Competition Policies in Latin America and the Caribbean
Mexico: Antitrust authority casts eye on live entertainment industry
Chile: Enrique Vergara named new head of Antitrust Tribunal
Colombia: Senate proposal seeks to ban use of generic drugs
Brazil: CADE goes after two pipe and fittings cartels
Peru: América Móvil’s Claro confirms purchase of OLO
Guatemala: Government pushes for Competition Law
Portugal: Vodafone to buy Optimus’ fiber network
Spain: CNMC sets fines over fine wine cartel
Archivos: ¿Desconocidos o Almas Gemelas? Políticas de Anti-Dumping y Competencia en América Latina y el Caribe
Brasil: Investiga CADE dos cárteles en mercado nacional de tuberías
Guatemala: Impulsa gobierno Ley Antimonopolio
Perú: Claro confirma compra de OLO
Colombia: Propone ley eliminar medicamentos genéricos
Chile: Enrique Vergara, nuevo Presidente del TDLC
Argentina: Se resisten empresas a impulso a Operadores Virtuales Móviles
México: Investiga autoridad sector de espectáculos en vivo
Portugal: Vodafone comprará red de fibra de Optimus
España: CNMC aplica sanción por participación en cártel de vinos finos
Japón: Nissan compra acción mayoritaria en Mitsubishi por $2,200 mdd
EEUU: Bayer considera comprar Monsanto por $43 mmdd
UE: Vestager considera tercer caso contra Google
EEUU: Amazon tiene un ‘gran problema de competencia’- Trump
Competition Buzz: The Essential Facilities Doctrine before the Chilean Antitrust Court
Peru: Regulator publishes guidelines for Leniency Program
Argentina: New guidelines to try and increase competition in Mobile Communications
Uruguay: National brewer fined over uncompetitive practices
Mexico: IFT gives go-ahead to new TV and radio licenses
Chile: Tissue cartel executives miss court date
Spain: CNMC promotes greater competition in State contract bids
Spain: Iberdrola and BBVA sell off Vinzeo for 74 million euros
Perú: INDECOPI publica Guía de Programa de Clemencia
Tendencias en Competencia: La Doctrina de las Facilidades Esenciales ante el Tribunal de Defensa de la Libre Competencia
Argentina: Nuevo Reglamento buscará mayor competencia en Comunicación Móvil
Colombia: Proponen crear nuevo regulador de Nuevas Tecnologías
Uruguay: Fábrica Nacionales de Cerveza sancionada por prácticas anticompetitivas
Brasil: Continúan redadas en investigación a cártel de combustibles
México: IFT autoriza nuevas concesiones públicas en radio y TV
Chile: Ejecutivos en caso de cártel de papel, ausentes en declaraciones
España: Impulsa CNMC competencia en licitaciones de Estado
España: Venden Iberdrola y BBVA Vinzeo a grupo italiano por 74 millones de Euros
Sudáfrica: Regulador pide nueva extensión en caso AB InBev
India: Comisión de Competencia aprueba acuerdo de de Multicinemas
EEUU: FCC apoya compra de Time Warner, Bright House
EEUU: Empresa buscará prohibir importaciones de acero de China
UE: Bloquean intento de Hutchison por hacerse de O2
Chile: Consumer association asks company to speed up consumer compensation
Brazil: Nippon Steel contracts hurt Usiminas – CSN
Colombia: Government looks to strip away Novartis’ monopoly
Peru: Modasa benefits from bus route concentration
Argentina: Victory for Grupo Clarín
Spain: CNMC fines Urban Science for lying on income
Spain/Portugal: Barclays sells Spanish credit card unit to Bancopopular-e
Tendencias en Competencia: Aplicación de Leyes Anti-Cárteles en Brasil – Lecciones del Pasado y Ejercicios para el Futuro
México: COFECE autoriza, con condiciones, Alianza Aeroméxico-Delta
Chile: Pide CONADECUS acelerar compensación a consumidores en Cartel del Comfort
Brasil: Contratos con Nippon Steel dañaron a Usiminas – CSN
Colombia: Gobierno busca retirar exclusividad a Novartis
Perú: Modasa, gran beneficiario en concentración de rutas de autobús
Argentina: Victoria para Clarín – Cablevisión ofrecerá Cuadruple-Play
España: CNMC sanciona a Urban Science por información engañosa
España/Portugal: Barclays vende sección de tarjetas de crédito a Bancopopular-e
EEUU: FTC amplía su investigación sobre Alphabet y Android
EEUU: Hitachi Chemical se declara culpable de manipulación de precios – DOJ
China: Acuerdo FedEx – TNT cruza el último obstáculo
UE: Con nueva oferta AB InBev intenta librar obstáculos antimonopolio
Mexico: Regulator to look into retirement fund managers
Competition Buzz: Competition Policy in Latin America
Chile: OECD finds snags in competition regulation
Brazil: Citicorp to sell off Brazilian credit card venture
Argentina: Civil society unites to defend against ‘media concentration’
Peru: Regulator removes barriers to competition, saving $100 million
Paraguay: New regulation framework for Electric industry will seek to avoid private oligopoly
Spain: Parcel Delivery sector to be probed again
Tendencias en Competencia: Políticas de Competencia en América Latina
Paraguay: Nuevo marco regulatorio para electricidad – evitar oligopolio privado, la meta
Perú: Indecopi remueve barreras a la competencia, ahorrando S333 millones
Argentina: Advierten sobre concentración en medios de comunicación
Brasil: Citicorp vende sector de tarjetas de crédito
Chile: OCDE detecta trabas en la regulación
México: COFECE investiga a fondos de ahorro para el retiro – Banorte, Profuturo en la mira
España: Nuevas inspecciones al sector de mensajería
España: CNMC va tras colusión en servicios informáticos.
UE: Acusaciones contra Google sin motivo político, asegura Vestager
China: Gobierno tira tiendas online de Apple – iBooks y iTunes Movies
EEUU: Fox, Disney, CBS, Time Warner y Viacom se unen en protesta contra reglas de la FCC
EEUU: Agencias prometen al Pentágono aplicar con fuerza ley de competencia al sector de Defensa
Mexico/Chile: Soriana and Falabella, retail giants, to begin $600 mill. joint venture
Chile: Chilean hotel industry takes on Airbnb
Brazil: Steelmaker threatens suit over Usiminas capital plan
Colombia: Grupo Familia accepts role in price-fixing cartel
Mexico: Investigation launched into bid-fixing laboratories
Argentina: Macri backs taxi drivers in Uber controversy
Spain: CNMC to fine Telefónica over discriminating behavior
Spain: Mahou buys Cermadis distribution chain
Tendencias: Casos relevantes de la jurisdicción mexicana en competencia económica
México/Chile: Soriana y Falabella iniciarán Joint Venture de $600 millones
Chile: Hoteleros chilenos, contra Airbnb
Brasil: Siderúrgica Nacional interpone demanda por plan de Usiminas
Colombia: Grupo Familia acepta responsabilidad por fijación de precios
México: COFECE investiga colusión en laboratorios
Argentina: Macri respalda a taxistas contra Uber
España: CNMC expide sanción a Telefónica por discriminación a competidores
España: Mahou compra distribuidora Cermadis
Japón: Gigantes de la industria de computación podrían cancelar fusión
EEUU: Renata Hesse, a la cabeza de la división de competencia del DOJ
EEUU: Obama emite Orden Ejecutiva para crear más competencia en televisión por cable
UE: Comisión Europea acelera investigación sobre Android
Region: 14th Latin American and Caribbean Competition Forum kicks off
Brazil: BM&F Bovespa to purchase Cetip
Mexico: Congressmen denounce Uber ‘abuse’
Region: Inter-American Press Association opposes Media Laws
Colombia: $22 million USD fine for market-fixing tissue makers
Chile: Transport minister calls Uber and Cabify “Pirate transport” – Announces sanctions
Mexico: COFECE detects Retirement Fund price-fixing
Spain: Competition regulator files suit against government over Shared Ride restrictions
Región: Arranca 14˚ Foro Latinoamericano y del Caribe de Competencia
Tendencias en Competencia: Autoridad de Competencia Colombiana Impuso Multas Históricas al Sector del Azúcar
Brasil: BM&F Bovespa busca adquirir a Cetip
México: Acusan diputados abuso de Uber
Región: Sociedad Interamericana de Prensa se opone a Leyes de Medios
Colombia: $22 millones de multa a papeleras por colusión
Chile: Ministro de Transporte anuncia multas a Uber, Cabify: “Transporte pirata”
México: Halla COFECE colusión entre Afores
España: Demanda CNMC a gobierno por restricción a Uber
España: CNMC investiga a bancos españoles por cártel
Sudáfrica: Regulador retrasará aprobación de SABMiller/AB
EEUU: Ejército se opone a fusión de Canadian Pacific
EEUU: Marriott se acerca a meta de adquirir Starwood por $14 mil millones
UE: Precedentes no afectarán decisión sobre O2 – Vestager
Competition Buzz: Assessment of antitrust agencies impact and performance: an analytical framework
Mexico: Medicine cartel seeking new contracts amid slow investigation
Spain: Sharing Economy report shows rift in CNMC leadership
Spain: CNMC approves Just Eat’s purchase of Nevera Roja
Argentina: CNDC to probe 11 sectors for possible competition issues
Uruguay: Real Estate firms denounce unfair competition
Colombia: Congress raises concerns on possible collusion in Isagen sale
Chile: Court denies access to data in tissue paper cartel case
Tendencias en Competencia: Evaluación del impacto y desempeño de las agencias reguladoras de competencia: Un marco analítico
México: Cártel aprovecha retraso; busca más contratos de medicinas
Brasil: CADE aprueba fusión de FedEx y TNT
Argentina: Investigará CNDC 11 mercados por falta de competencia
Uruguay: Denuncian inmobiliarias competencia informal
Colombia: Cuestionan diputados posible colusión en venta de Isagén
Chile: Tribunal niega acceso a datos en caso de colusión de papel
España: CNMC aprueba adquisición de Nevera Roja por Just Eat
España: Crisis interna en CNMC desatada por informe sobre economía colaborativa
EEUU: Demanda FTC a VW por campaña de ‘diesel limpio’
UE: Hollywood, en la mira de la Comisión
China: Nuevo record en número de concentraciones globales
EEUU: Juez aprueba demanda de Uber por sobreprecios
Competition Buzz: Vertical Restraints to Competition in Retail Markets
Mexico: Saturated fuel market a barrier to foreign competition
Brazil: CADE clears Sumitomo’s Cosan Biomassa buy
Argentina: Uber looks for drivers – still no launch date
Colombia: Confessions come in paper cartel cases
Ecuador: Court fines Recapt; annuls contract with IESS
Chile: Collusion suspected among school meal providers
Spain: Gas Natural fined over unfair competition; misleading customers
Spain: Siemens pushing to unblock Gamesa purchase
Tendencias en Competencia: Restricciones Verticales a la Competencia en el Ámbito del Retail
México: Saturación limitará competencia extranjera en Gasolina
Brasil: CADE aprueba compra de Cosan Biomassa por japonesa Sumitomo
Argentina: Uber convoca conductores, sin dar fecha de lanzamiento
Colombia: Confesos en casos de colusión en papel y pañales
Ecuador: Tribunal multa a Recapt – anula contrato con IESS por colusión
Chile: Sospechan colusión en proveedores de Alimentos Escolares
España: Sanción a Gas Natural por engaño a clientes y competencia desleal
España: Siemens puja por desbloquear fusión con Gamesa
EEUU: Taxis de Filadelfia demandan a Uber
UE: Aumenta resistencia alemana contra fusión con bolsa de Londres
China: Fusión de Schlumberger-Cameron libra su último obstáculo
EEUU: Presidente de JetBlue exige ‘límites y contrapesos’ en ley de competencia
Mexico: Opposition calls for greater openness in medicine market
Argentina: Time Warner moves closer to purchase of Telefé
Peru: World Bank and ICN praise Peruvian antitrust efforts
Guatemala: Competition law should be pushed through quickly, says economist
Chile: Competition court recommends Stock Exchange integration
Spain: Vodafone accuses Telefónica of refusing access to motor sports feed
Spain: National Assembly blocks Iberdrola’s ‘Super-Sanction’
Tendencias de Competencia: Investigación de Cárteles y Combate a la Pobreza- Una Probada del Perú
México: Propone PAN mayor apertura en mercado farmacéutico
Argentina: Time Warner avanza en compra de Telefé Argentina
Perú: Reconocen BM e ICN estrategias de promoción de competencia
Brasil: CADE aprueba proyecto azucarero de Raízen y Wilmar International
Guatemala: Importante aprobar rápidamente ley de competencia – economista
Chile: TDLC recomienda integrar bolsas chilenas
España: Vodafone acusa a Telefónica de restringir acceso a canales
España: Audiencia Nacional detiene ‘Supermulta’ a Iberdrola
UE: Bolsa de Londres y Deutsche Börse anuncian unión
Japón/EEUU: Omron Auto pagará $4.5 millones por manipulación
EEUU: Toshiba enfrenta demanda por manipulación de precios
Alemania: Regulador renuncia por pleito en supermercados
Brazil: for 10th time, GEDEC requests arrest warrants in train price-fixing scheme
Mexico: Fearing contract-fixing, Social Security looks to COFECE
Argentina: Fintech takeover of Telecom Argentina complete
Peru: Exporting companies to participate in Shipping Collusion investigation
Uruguay: Competition Commission evidence-gathering powers reinforced
Spain: Government backs Taxis – Uber, a Transport company
Spain: CNMC releases preliminary conclusions to Shared Economy public study
Tendencias en Competencia: La Consolidación de las Leyes de Competencia en América Latina
México: Denuncia IMSS colusión de laboratorios
Argentina: Fintech finaliza adquisición de Telecom Argentina
Brasil: GEDEC solicita por décima ocasión arresto en caso de cártel de trenes
Chile: TDLC rechaza solicitud de dilación en colusión de supermercados
Perú: Exportadores participarán en juicio de cartel de navieras
Uruguay: Para evitar abusos, aumentan capacidades de Comisión de Competencia
España: Gobierno respalda a taxistas – Uber, servicio de transporte
España: CNMC publica conclusiones preliminares del estudio sobre economía colaborativa
EEUU: Autoridades antimonopolio enfrentan ‘tsunami’ de fusiones
Corea del Sur: Autoridad de competencia multa a 172 empresas por fallas en transparencia
EEUU: Comerciantes demandan a Visa y Mastercard
UE: Comisión aprueba venta de genéricos de Allergan a Teva, por $40 mil millones
Competition Buzz: Argentina’s Transport Privatization and Re-Regulation: Ups and Downs of a Daring Decade-Long Experience
Mexico: Slot concentration is “natural” – Aeromexico
Peru: Authority cracks down on dialysis price fixers
Colombia: Superintendence issues warning against Movistar
Chile: Economy Ministry gives input on new Competition Law proposal
Argentina: Government greenlights Telecom and Nextel sales
Spain: Market regulator introduces Lobbyist registry
Spain: Regulator closes file on energy companies after court annulment
México: Concentración es ‘connatural’ – Aeroméxico
Tendencias en Competencia: Privatización del Transporte en Argentina- Lo bueno y lo malo de una década de experiencia
EEUU: Barclays enfrenta demanda por manipulación en precios de electricidad
EEUU: Fallecido Ex-director de Chesapeake Energy, acusado de conspiración anticompetitiva
Alemania: Abren investigación contra Facebook
UE: Europa necesita un regulador de telecomunicación único – Google
España: CNMC cierra expediente a eléctricas tras anulación de multa
España: Lanza regulador registro de ‘Lobbys’
Argentina: Gobierno aprueba venta de Telecom y Nextel
Chile: Ministro de Economía gira indicación a proyecto de ley de competencia
Colombia: SIC gira medida cautelar en contra de Movistar
Perú: Multa INDECOPI a centros de hemodiálisis por concertación
Mexico: Agave producers warn of monopoly risks after PDO change
México: Productores de agave denuncian riesgo de monopolio por denominación
Brasil: Procter & Gamble vende marca Hipoglos
Brazil: Procter & Gamble sells off Hipoglos brand
Competition Buzz: Study concerning the Coffee Sector in Colombia
El Salvador: Country steps into presidency Regional Competition Network
Brazil: LetterOne backs down on Brazilian mobile merger
Colombia: Superintendence promotes competition in electric market
Chile: TDLC reveals new details in tissue paper cartel case
Spain: ‘Podemos’ party to interrogate CNMC’s president over Uber controversy
Spain: Regulator holds annual Defense of Competition Council
Tendencias en Competencia: Estudio Sobre El Sector Del Café En Colombia
México: Regulador detecta falta de competencia en Aeropuerto
El Salvador: Asume país presidencia de Red regional de competencia
Brasil: LetterOne desiste de fusión entre telefónicas brasileñas
Colombia: Superintendencia promueve competencia en sector eléctrico
Chile: Revela TDLC nueva información en Cartel del Confort
Perú: Sanción a 17 empresas por colusión en transporte marítimo.
España: Podemos interrogará a presidente de la CNMC por caso de Uber
España: CNMC celebra Consejo anual de Defensa de la Competencia
Japón: Foxconn pone el freno a compra de Sharp por $6 mil millones
Reino Unido: Regulador pide a bancos abrir sistema de pagos a competencia
EEUU: División antimonopolio del DOJ buscará fondos adicionales
EEUU: Airbus se opone a posible acuerdo de Honeywell-UTC
España: Telefónica y Vodafone exigen reglas parejas a regulador
Spain: Telefónica and Vodafone demand ‘equal rules’ for telecomm
Competition Buzz: Latin America Cartel Control
Mexico: Government to allow fuel imports starting April
Region: Citigroup to sell retail banking units across Latin America
Chile: Consumer groups call for boycott on price-fixing supermarkets
Ecuador: Online competition rattling nerves in hotel sector
Colombia/Mexico: Alsea group bids for Colombia’s largest pizza chain
Spain: ‘Podemos’ party backs Taxis in Uber protest
México: Adelanta a abril libre importación de combustibles
Tendencias en Competencia: Control de Cárteles en América Latina
Reino Unido: Ofcom, sin autoridad para separar a BT y Openreach
UE: Aprobarán adquisición Dell – EMC por $67mmdd
EEUU: Aetna y Humana libran obstáculo para su fusión
EEUU: Corte sostiene acuerdo en caso de E-books de Apple
España: Taxis bloquean centro de Madrid en protesta
España: Podemos apoyará a taxistas en lucha contra Uber
Colombia/México: Grupo Alsea compra cadena de comida Colombiana
Ecuador: Competencia de plataformas en línea preocupa a sector hotelero
Chile: CONADECUS llama a boicot contra supermercados coludidos
Región: Citigroup venderá operaciones de banca en AL
Brasil: Apelación bloquea fusión de FedEx y TNT
Mexico: Authority warns tortilla industry against price-fixing agreements
México: Advierte COFECE a industria tortillera – Ilegal acordar subida de precios
Argentina: Competition Commission gets new president
Argentina: Esteban Manuel Greco, nuevo titular de la CNDC
Argentina: Rural Union denounces Monsanto
Peru: Regulator removes over 300 barriers to Telecommunications competition
Colombia: SIC admonishes companies for blocking coal trade
Uruguay: Montevideo port operators square off
Spain: Brussels probes illegal advantages of Spanish mail carrier
Spain: CNMC president warns against ‘petrification’ in energy sector
Brasil: Juez de EEUU da luz verde a demandas contra Petrobras
Perú: INDECOPI retira 300 barreras a la competencia en telecomunicaciones
Colombia: Acusa SIC a empresas por barreras a exportación de carbon
Uruguay: Se enfrentan concesionarios del Puerto de Montevideo
EEUU: Muere Antonin Scalia, Juez de la Suprema Corte
UE: Investigará comisión posible manipulación de mercado de deudas
Francia: 60 dias tendrá Facebook para modificar términos y condiciones
EEUU: Experto en competencia confirmado para Máximo Tribunal del Nueva York
España: Investiga Bruselas ayudas ilegales a Correos de España
España: Advierte CNMC contra ‘Petrificación’ en sector energético
Argentina: Sociedad Rural presenta denuncia ante Competencia contra Monsanto
Chile: Authorities to review CGE purchase by catalan gas giant Fenosa
Chile: TDLC revisará compra de CGE por Gas Natural Fenosa
Mexico: América Móvil profits take hit
México: Se reducen ingresos de América Móvil
Competition Buzz: Drawing a Roadmap for Oil Pricing Reform
Mexico: Fall of the peso may incite antitrust violations – Cofece
Argentina: Competition regulator rebooted
Region: Just Eat goes on acquisition spree; widens Latin American clout
Colombia: Local government and business unite to protect liquor monopoly
Ecuador: Rejecting pharma monopolies, Ecuador signs deal with China
Spain: Gamesa and Siemens merge to create wind-power leader
Spain: ‘Free’ market overtakes government-controlled prices in energy
Tendencias en Competencia: Trazando el camino hacia una reforma en precios del petróleo
Ecuador: Escapando monopolios farmacéuticos, firma país acuerdo con China
Colombia: Buscan proteger monopolio de licores
España: Gamesa y Siemens se unen para crear gigante eólico
España: Mercado libre de electricidad supera a mercado regulado
UE: Vestager rechaza críticas de EEUU por casos contra Apple y Starbucks
EEUU: Shkreli insulta a miembros del congreso
EEUU: Se concreta fusión que cambiará el ’streaming’ en Hollywood
China: Regulador sanciona manipulación de precios en farmacéuticas locales
Argentina: Relanzan regulador de competencia
Región: Just Eat compra rivales; gana mercado en Europa y LatAm
México: COFECE nominada en Premios de Competencia 2016
México: Devaluación puede llevar a empresas a colusión: Cofece
México: Tomará años equilibrar mercado de Telecomunicaciones
Brasil: Venta de unidad de HSBC por $5,200 millones requiere mayor escrutinio – CADE
Argentina: Seeking ‘Quadruple Play’, Clarín buys Nextel
Brazil: Steelmaker Gerdau reveals plans for venture with Japanese rivals
Mexico: First private provider to compete in electric market
Perú: Competition would reduce fuel prices – Ochoa
Colombia: Verdict on tissue paper cartel expected for June
Spain: CNMC penalizes Dental union over competition violations
Chile: Study boosts credit card monopoly concerns
Spain: Taxi drivers unite against Uber and regulators
Perú: Mayor competencia para reducir precio de combustibles – Ochoa
Colombia: Para junio, veredicto sobre colusión en papel higiénico
Chile: Resurgen acusaciones de monopolio en tarjetas de crédito
España: Colusión y manipulación entre odontólogos, sancionada por CNMC
España: Taxistas se unen contra Uber
EEUU: Fiscal federal investiga competencia en boletos de NFL
EEUU: Halliburton trata de revivir fusión con Baker-Hughes
Reino Unido: Jurado libera a involucrados en caso Libor
UE: Vestager examina pleito entre Reino Unido y Google
Argentina: Clarín compra Nextel Argentina; busca ‘Cuadruple play’
Brasil: Gerdau planea asociación con rivales japoneses
México: Competirá iniciativa privada en mercado eléctrico
Chile: Corte apoya penas de cárcel por colusión
Mexico: COFECE recommends changes to PEMEX supply contracts
Brazil: Cisco and Technicolor accused of ‘gun jumping’
Chile: Scotiabank to evaluate risks in partnership with Cencosud
Peru: Regulator rejects intervening in fuel market
Colombia: Beer market shows growth and upheavals
Argentina: Government to license soccer broadcasting rights
Spain: Uber returns to Spain
Spain: Regulator recommends dropping restrictions on passenger transport
Tendencias en Competencia: Dibujando el camino para reformar el Precio del Petroleo
México: COFECE emite recomendación sobre contratos ‘de primera mano’ de PEMEX
México: Pemex responde a la COFECE
España: Requiere CNMC eliminar restricciones en transporte de pasajeros
España: El regreso de Uber
Colombia: Renovación y crecimiento en mercado de la cerveza
Perú: INDECOPI descarta intervención en precios de combustible
Chile: Scotiabank evalúa riesgo de alianza con Cencosud
México: COFECE investiga practicas monopólicas en navieras de Quintana Roo
Competition Buzz: Leniency in Antitrust Enforcement – Theory and Practice
Guatemala: First steps towards new Competition Law
Portugal/Chile: Electric company looking for South America entrance
Colombia: Telefónica eyes AT&T assets
Chile: Medical professionals denounce ‘monopoly’ following tariff readjustment
Brazil: $345 million wind farm purchase approved by regulator
Mexico: Watchdog opens Barley market probe
Spain: Bid-fixing ‘fire cartel’ involved in fraud worth 100 million
Spain: ‘Just Eat’ Monopolizing food delivery service
Tendencias en Competencia: Clemencia en la Aplicación de la ley de competencia: Teoría y Práctica
México: Investiga autoridad mercado de cebada
Brasil: Autoridad aprueba inversión de $345 mdd en energía eólica
Chile: Colegio Médico denuncia ‘Conducta Monopólica’ en reajuste de aranceles
Colombia: Telefónica, tras activos de AT&T
Portugal/Chile: Operador eléctrico busca ingresar a sudamérica
Guatemala: Primeros pasos hacia nueva Ley de Competencia
España: ‘Cartel del Fuego’ supera 100 millones de euros en manipulación de contratos
España: ‘Just Eat’ monopoliza entrega de comida a domicilio
EEUU/China: GE venderá unidad de electrodomésticos a China por $5,400 millones
Reino Unido: Fusión de BT y EE finalizada tras seis meses de investigación
UE: Acciones de Renault se desploman tras acción policiaca
EEUU: Wilson Sonsini añade ex-comisionado de la FTC a sus filas
Mexico: Regulator to charge for merger notifications
Brazil: CADE launches probe on postal service
Colombia: Superintendence charges FUNDESOL with manipulating state contract bid
Paraguay: Gas station owners upset by price regulation
Argentina: Uber begins search for BA staff
Spain: Competition and fall in oil prices could benefit consumers
Spain: Regulator urges more competition in Architecture
Competition Buzz: A Historical Review of Ecuador’s Disloyal Competition Regulation
UE: Senador estadounidense acusa a Europa de perseguir intereses propios mediante investigaciones por competencia
Argentina: Uber busca ya empleados en BA
Tendencias en Competencia: Una visión histórica de la regulación de la competencia desleal en el Ecuador
México: COFECE cobrará por notificaciones
Brasil: CADE abre procedimiento contra servicio de correos
Chile: Cencosud, SMU y Wal-Mart, acusados por coludirse en precios de pollo
Colombia: SIC abre cargos contra FUNDESOL por manipular licitación estatal
Paraguay: Reclaman gasolineras por regulación de precios
Argentina: Busca diputado ley de control de precios
España: Más competencia y caída del crudo beneficiarían a consumidores
España: CNMC recomienda abrir competencia en Arquitectura
UE: Un año ocupado para Vestager
EEUU: RadioShack demandará a 5 fabricantes por conspirar en precios
EEUU: Pionero de la competencia se retira del despacho Jones Day
Alemania: Uber abandona Frankfurt
Competition Buzz: Regulation, Market Structure and Performance in Air Passenger Transportation
Spain: Spanish Lobby puts pressure on Brussels to end Electricity monopoly
Spain: CNMC releases report on Tobacco regulation
Region: “Hard to believe” directors knew nothing of Tissue Paper cartel
Colombia: Fines on sugar producers ratified (and reduced)
Argentina: Judge stops Macri’s attempt to dissolve Media regulator
Chile: Asphalt suppliers fined $3bn over price-fixing deal
Brazil: CADE denounces electrical equipment cartel
Mexico: Fuel market swings open for imports
Mexico: COFECE appoints new Technical Secretary
México: Nombra COFECE nuevo Secretario Técnico
Tendencias en Competencia: Regulación, Estructura de Mercado y Desempeño en el Transporte Aéreo de Pasajeros
Chile: Proveedoras de asfalto pagarán 3 mil mdd por colusión
Argentina: Juez frena a Macri – Sostiene regulador de competencia en Medios
Colombia: SIC ratifica (y reduce) multa a azucareros
Región: “Dificil creer” que directivos no conocieran cartel del confórt – Colombia
España: Informe sobre regulación de productos de tabaco
España: Lobby español presiona en Bruselas para retirar monopolio a Red Eléctrica
China: Navieras coludidas reciben multa por $63 millones de dólares
EEUU: DuPont y Dow confirman fusión por $120 mil millones
Australia: Oficialmente, Uber es legal
UE: Corte Europea anula multa a aerolíneas por 790 millones de Euros
Brasil: CADE denuncia cartel en sector eléctrico
México: Inicia competencia en hidrocarburos