The Supreme Court yesterday handed down judgment in British Telecommunications plc v Telefónica O2 UK Ltd & Ors [2014] UKSC 42. Reversing the decision of the Court of Appeal (blogged on here …read more
European Commission MEMO Brussels, 10 July 2014 The European Commission welcomes today’s judgment by the EU Court of Justice (case C-295/12 P) confirming in full a Commission decision of 2007 that had fined Telefónica for a margin squeeze in the Spanish broadband market, in breach of EU antitrust rules. …read more
A look at my recent posts shows that I have developed a taste for pending issues, whether it is rulings of the ECJ or Commission decisions. Rather than doing something new, I thought I would repeat the trick (I tell myself that the number of comments received in previous posts …read more
Switzerland-based Holcim has said it will not acquire Kenya’s Bamburi Cement firm if it’s planned merger with France’s Lafarge succeeds, say reports.
Should the $40 billion merger proceed as planned, Holcim would end up with indirect control of Bambury, according to reports; two Lafarge units own 58.6 percent of Bamburi.
But in …read more