The "Digital Strategy 2025", adopted by the German Federal Government on March 1, 2016, aims to ensure that Germany remains a growing, modern and significant financial marketplace...

A German court's landmark decision in the European bathroom fittings cartel case has established a five-step framework for estimating cartel damages, with particular emphasis on using economic simulation models to assess pass-through rates to indirect purchasers. This analysis explores how these models address the fundamental challenge of reconstructing unobservable counterfactual market conditions and demonstrates their practical applicability in litigation.

The Court ordered Samsung to provide information and to render an account of past sales in Germany.

The long-awaited hearing on the admissibility of advertising blocker "AdBlock Plus" under competition law was held at the Federal Court of Justice recently.

A third supplementary protocol to the Dutch tax treaty was signed on June 4. It allocates the right to tax the profits of permanent establishments exactly on the border and the wages of their employees, frees German invalidity pensions to WW II Dutch forced labourers from the Dutch tax net, and grants a Dutch credit for the German withholding tax on portfolio dividends

Significant U.S. antitrust merger investigations resolved in 2017 took longer than ever recorded—an average of 10.8 months from announcement to agency action ...

The European Commission has issued its first formal opinion permitting French winemakers to collaborate in promoting sustainable production practices.

The 17th amendment to the German Foreign Trade and Payment Ordinance ("AWV") adopted by the federal government on April 27, 2021.

The European Commission has issued its first-ever informal approvals of two separate sustainability initiatives among rivals under its revised Informal Guidance Notice and provided guidance on how the companies...

Der EuGH hat heute über Beschränkungen im Onlinehandel für Luxusmarken entschieden.

On 25.11.2021, the FCO published its "self-cleaning" guidelines, specifying the conditions under which companies that have been found by a binding and final decision to have engaged...

Nach den Feststellungen der Kommission verpflichtete sich Qualcomm im Jahr 2011 in einer Vereinbarung mit Apple, erhebliche Zahlungen dafür zu leisten...

Now, the OLG Düsseldorf has suspended the FCO's decision.

Nach Inkrafttreten von § 19a GWB im Januar will der Digital Markets Act nun auch auf europäischer Ebene neue Regeln für die Digitalwirtschaft setzen.