June 12, 2014
Several days ago I posted the first of a series of short notes discussing some of the more interesting, frequent and important competition and advertising law questions I’ve received over the past few years (for the first post see: here). Today I thought I would …read more
Minutes ago the General Court released its Judgment in Intel v Commission (T-286/09) dismissing the appeal in its entirety and upholding the 1.06 billion euros fine.
As I noted to Bloomberg some time ago, the ECJ’s Tomra Judgment had paved the way for the Commission’s victory in …read more
The European Commission announced Wednesday that it has approved of the proposed merger between insurance companies UnipolSai and Allianz.
Reports say the $1.5 billion acquisition by Germany’s Allianz of Italy-based Unipol assets, first announced last March, is part of a move by Unipol to comply with an earlier antitrust ruling in …read more
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority has said that the payday loan market is lacking competition and will therefore be investigated to help lower consumer costs.
The CMA announced Wednesday that customers pay too much for their payday loans because there is insufficient price competition in the market. The competition watchdog …read more