By: (Australian Competition Law Blog) The Treasury Laws Amendment (Mergers and Acquisitions Reform) Bill 2024 was passed by both houses last night. The Bill amends the Competition and Consumer Act…

By: Bernd Meyring, Lucia Stoican, Elisha Kemp (Linklaters) The European Parliament has given its approval: the new Commission can begin its work in December 2024. This post explores what this means…

By:William C. MacLeod (Kelley Drye) After two federal courts rebuked the Federal Trade Commission’s ambitious attempt to ban noncompete agreements nationwide, the agency is now turning to a circuit court…

By: Bureau of Competition (Federal Trade Commission) As antitrust practitioners are aware, certain mergers and acquisitions require the submission of premerger notification forms to the FTC and DOJ’s Antitrust Division.…

By: Kevin Coates (Covington View) Our webinar series on the European Commission’s draft guidelines for Article 102 is now available on demand. The three-part series is hosted by Kevin Coates,…

By:Pablo Ibañez Colomo (Chillin Competition) This month’s issue of World Competition features a short piece of mine (the submitted version is available on SSRN) discussing resale price maintenance in the…

By: Robert Connolly (Cartel Capers) The Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice recently marked the fifth anniversary of the Procurement Collusion Strike Force (PCSF) with a celebration held…

By: Ann O’Brien (Sheppard Mullin) The Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Antitrust Division recently updated its Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs in Criminal Antitrust Investigations guidance document (“Antitrust Compliance Guidance”). Corporate…

By: Jannes van der Merwe & Joshua Eveleigh (African Antitrust) On October 3, 2024, the Supreme Court of Zimbabwe (SCZ) delivered a judgment in the case of Competition Tariff Commission…

By: Elisabeth Clemmons (IDC) In September 2024, California made headlines with the passage of groundbreaking AI legislation. Among these, AB 2013 mandates developers to publish information about their training data…

By: Esin Aygun (Center for Competition Policy) Over the past five years, there has been intense debate about whether existing competition rules are adequate for addressing challenges posed by digital…

By: Rupprecht Podzsun (D’KART) The end of an era is here: Since 2014, Margrethe Vestager has been at the helm of EU competition policy, serving as Commissioner for Competition and,…