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...
7/14/2020 10:18:42 AM CMA’s review of market remedies finds breaches across several markets By Marjorie Holmes Ross Mackenzie Emma Weeden Vaibhav Adlakha +1 more... Show less At a glance The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has recently taken action against companies that have not complied with market...
7/1/2020 4:00:39 PM What are the risks when increasing prices in times of COVID-19? By Ross Mackenzie Michelle Mantine Dora Wang Max Seuster +1 more... Show less When COVID-19 swept the globe and disrupted the production and distribution of goods, it gave way to some companies taking advantage of...
6/30/2020 4:10:21 PM The EC’s White Paper on Foreign Subsidies and what it means for M&A deals and foreign subsidised companies operating in the EU By Christian Filippitsch Yves Melin Max Seuster In our recent client alert, we take a look at the European Commission’s proposed new toolbox to intervene where foreign subsidies could...
5/22/2020 3:48:40 PM Putting their foot down – the CMA’s decision to block JD Sports’ acquisition of Footasylum By Marjorie Holmes Ross Mackenzie Emma Weeden Vaibhav Adlakha +1 more... Show less Earlier this month, the UK Competition and Markets Authority announced that it has prohibited the completed acquisition by JD Sports of...
5/22/2020 9:09:09 AM German lawmakers adopt temporary amendments to the German Competition Act to mitigate consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic in competition law By Tilman Siebert Michaela Westrup Corinna Kammerer On 14 May 2020, the German Parliament adopted temporary amendments to the Act against Restraints of Competition (ARC) to mitigate...
5/11/2020 10:32:00 AM Competition law during the COVID-19 pandemic: several shades freed? By Marc Lévy Natasha Tardif Lucile Chneiweiss A version of this article was previously published in French by Le Club des Juristes. Following the economic shock caused by the COVID-19...
4/1/2020 2:30:05 PM How are competition law authorities responding to the unfolding COVID-19 crisis? By Marjorie Holmes Marc Lévy Natasha Tardif Vaibhav Adlakha Courtney Averbach Lucile Chneiweiss Corinna Kammerer Emma Weeden Saint Martin +6 more... Show less With COVID-19 sweeping across the globe, competition law authorities and legislative bodies across the world are having to act quickly...
3/26/2020 9:57:35 PM 1-800 Contacts Sets Sights on Reversal of Judgement in Anticompetitive Advertising Case By John Feldman Andrew Bernasconi On March 5, 2020, contact lens distributor 1-800 Contacts presented arguments to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit...
10/3/2019 8:44:15 PM Ninth Circuit’s decision in hiQ Labs, Inc. v. LinkedIn Corp. has major antitrust implications By Gerard Stegmaier Christopher Brennan Michelle Mantine Gregory Vose +1 more... Show less In hiQ Labs, Inc. v. LinkedIn Corp., No. 17-16783, 2019 WL 4251889 (9th Cir. Sept. 9, 2019), a Ninth Circuit panel affirmed the district...