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The Obama administration came into power championing a philosophical shift in regulatory and antitrust policy. The telecommunications industry was singled out by the administration as a case where...

A “price squeeze,” or “margin squeeze,” is a theory of antitrust liability under section 2 of the Sherman Act that concerns a vertically integrated monopolist that sells its upstream bottleneck...

In Greek Lignite, the General Court has decided that inequality of opportunity, without more, does not constitute an abuse of dominant position in the context of Article 106(1) TFEU.

As antitrust becomes more complex, so do its remedies. While access and disclosure remedies have been a part of antitrust law since the very earliest days of the Sherman Act, they have become a...

In 2010, the Court of Justice opened the way for taking the specificities of competition law into account while assessing requests for access to documents.

In the subsequent case law, the Court has...

Cartel victims may not be granted access to leniency documents stemming from antitrust prosecution by the Federal Cartel Office (Bundeskartellamt).

In the case at issue, the request had been made...

An important question is whether improving consumer welfare is, or should be, an explicitly-stated goal of competition law enforcement. In addressing this question, we must focus, concretely, on...

The European Court of Justice has ruled that there is a rebuttable liability presumption of parent companies for their subsidiary's cartel offences in the case of a 100 per cent shareholding.

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The General Court ruled that a pure financial holding company without exercising actual decisive influence cannot be held liable.

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The General Court accepted in this...

A multisided platform (MSP) serves as an intermediary for two or more groups of customers who are linked by indirect network effects. Recent research has found that MSPs are significant in many...