12/24/2020 3:12:46 PM McCarran-Ferguson Act repeal heads to the president as part of the Competitive Health Insurance Reform Act By William Sheridan Gregory Vose On December 22, 2020, the U.S. Senate unanimously approved the Competitive Health Insurance Reform Act (CHIRA), previously passed by the...
12/4/2020 4:31:27 PM The COVID-19 pandemic and competition law challenges By Ross Mackenzie Marjorie Holmes Emma Weeden Vaibhav Adlakha +1 more... Show less The Competition and Markets Authority continues to assert that competition rules have and will continue to apply fully throughout the...
11/26/2020 3:39:54 PM The UK’s new National Security and Investment Bill – what do you need to know? By Ross Mackenzie Prajakt Samant Marjorie Holmes Simone Goligorsky Vaibhav Adlakha Nadia Macci +3 more... Show less In our latest client alert, we provide a practical overview of the UK’s recently published National Security and Investment Bill, which...
11/24/2020 5:00:01 PM Does competition law have a role in achieving a greener economy? By Geert Goeteyn Under what conditions can competition law be a force that is enabling, rather than obstructive? We examine how competition law may be a...
10/20/2020 4:06:20 PM Recent cases highlight limitations in price-gouging enforcement By John Feldman Michelle Mantine Toam Rubinstein Danielle Stewart +1 more... Show less Since the start of the global pandemic, state attorneys general continue to actively pursue price-gouging investigations against...
10/13/2020 12:12:01 PM The new EU FDI screening rules are now fully in force – what are the key features that you should know about? By Christian Filippitsch Geert Goeteyn Yves Melin Isabelle Rahman Max Seuster Jin Woo Kim +3 more... Show less The EU Foreign Direct Investment Screening Regulation introduces the first EU-wide foreign investment screening cooperation mechanism and...
10/9/2020 6:47:24 PM Third Circuit rejects courts’ authority to award monetary relief under Section 13(b) of the FTC Act By Courtney Averbach Keely Dulaney Michelle Mantine On September 30, 2020, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit reversed a historic district court award ordering...
10/7/2020 4:16:06 PM Decision in hiQ Labs, Inc. v. LinkedIn Corp. fuels debate over antitrust-privacy issues By Christopher Brennan Michelle Mantine Gerard Stegmaier Gregory Vose +1 more... Show less On September 9, 2020, a federal judge in California dismissed antitrust claims brought by hiQ Labs, Inc. against LinkedIn Corp., holding...
9/21/2020 2:28:21 PM Price gouging in Europe: what are the rules and how has the pandemic shifted enforcement priorities? By Max Seuster Lucile Chneiweiss Ross Mackenzie Tilman Siebert +1 more... Show less Continuing our podcast series on price gouging laws, members of our global antitrust lawyers focus on the situation around price gouging...
9/21/2020 2:15:48 PM Is a robust compliance plan enough to ensure a discount from fines for anticompetitive activity? By Marjorie Holmes Ross Mackenzie Edward Schwartz Jennifer Driscoll Dora Wang Asha Sharma Vaibhav Adlakha Cindy Shen Carolyn Chia Celine Collis +7 more... Show less In certain jurisdictions, having a tailored and comprehensive compliance programme in place may reduce the size of a fine resulting from...
9/17/2020 5:46:24 PM DOJ’s Antitrust Division makes significant updates to Merger Remedies Manual By Michelle Mantine Christopher Brennan Keely Dulaney The Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division updated its Merger Remedies Manual for the first time in more than a decade. The updates...
9/15/2020 4:51:24 PM Non-luxury brands can ban resale on third-party platforms By Michaela Westrup Tilman Siebert Corinna Kammerer As the Amsterdam Court of Appeal recently confirmed in Action Sport v Nike (decision of 14 July 2020, ECLI:NL:GHAMS:2020:2004), the...
9/7/2020 9:59:05 AM Aviation update: what are the EU measures that regulate the industry? By Geert Goeteyn For the latest update on the various European measures that regulate the aviation sector, including a summary of the measures adopted by...
9/2/2020 3:18:26 PM Price gouging during COVID-19: what’s happening in the APAC region? By Dora Wang Asha Sharma As part of Reed Smith’s three -part global price gouging podcast series, this week our regulatory enforcement lawyers Dora Wang and Asha...
8/20/2020 9:57:47 PM U.S. price gouging during COVID-19: A changing landscape By Danielle Stewart Michelle Mantine Jennifer Driscoll Our U.S. team members recently joined Reed Smith’s Countering the Crisis podcast to provide an overview of the U.S. laws around price...
8/18/2020 10:11:35 AM Regulatory aspects of investing in Germany – German legislator further extends foreign investment control regime By Tilman Siebert Corinna Kammerer On 18 June 2020, the German Parliament agreed to further rules on tightening foreign investment control by adopting the First Act on the...