November 02, 2012
U.S.: 26th pleads guilty to bid-rigging in California real estate...

A California real estate investor has pleaded guilt to price-fixing at public foreclosure auctions to the Department of Justice. Normal Montalvo apparently conspired to pre-select winning bids for certain properties...

October 23, 2012
SOEs and competition policy in China

Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Wei Tan (Renmin University) discusses SOEs and competition policy in China. ABSTRACT: Since China’s Anti-Monopoly Laws (“AML”) bill passed in 2008, competition policy in China...

October 08, 2012
India: Competition regulator rejects claims against real estate developer

The Competition Commission on Monday rejected a complaint regarding alleged abuse of dominance by real estate developer Supertech, as the competition regulator did not find any evidence to support the...

October 04, 2012
India: Blackstone gets CCI approval for Embassy realty deal

The Competition Commission of India (CCI) approved a real estate deal between global private equity giant Blackstone group and Pune-based realty firm Embassy Group. The proposed deal involves Blackstone and...

September 06, 2012
State Rep Views Bitcoin As Legitimate Currency Competitor

It’s been a turbulent week for the digital currency known as Bitcoin. First, we saw Bitfloor, the fourth-largest Bitcoin exchange, fall victim to a $250,000 hacking theft. Next we heard...

July 30, 2012
Canadian consulting company pleads guilty to bid-rigging

Now subject to a court order and slated to pay $125,000 in fines, Corporate Research Group of Canada pled guilty to criminal bid-rigging for real estate advisory contracts with the...

June 28, 2012
Two Mobile real estate investors indicted for bid-rigging AL real...

A federal grand jury in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama has indicted two Mobile real estate investors and their company, J & R Properties. The...

June 07, 2012
Two more investors cop to bid-rigging at N. Cal. real...

Two more real estate investors, Douglas Ditmer and San Ramon, have agreed to plead guilty to rigging bids at public real estate foreclosure auctions in Northern California. Actions that the...

May 31, 2012
Lack of evidence of abuse of dominance frees Emaar from...

The Competition Commission of India was unable to rule that Emaar abused its dominance, despite finding that agreements it entered into with Silapuri Colonizers were anti-competitive. The antitrust watchdog did...