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Germany has a new Antitrust Act, effective June 30, 2013. The new GWB brings about important changes, in particular for merger control and antitrust fines.

On 12 July 2018 the Higher Regional Court of Frankfurt am Main (Germany) has issued its decision in the case 'Coty Germany GmbH v Parfümerie Akzente GmbH'.

"Competition law does not stand in the way of cooperations [between companies] that aim to achieve sustainability objectives – quite the contrary"

On 24 June 2016, the long-awaited decision on ad blocking software was adopted by the Higher Regional Court of Cologne.

Mit dem am 14. Januar 2021 im Bundestag beschlossenen Änderungsantrag der Bundesregierung zum Gesetzentwurf der 10. GWB-Novelle hat der Gesetzgeber die Compliance-Defense in kartellrechtlichen Bußgeldverfahren vor dem Bundeskartellamt beschlossen.

Zusätzlich hat sich der BGH nun auch zu prozessualen Fragen positioniert.

Under the former rules, a planned concentration has to be notified to the German Federal Cartel Office if certain turnover thresholds are met by the undertakings concerned

The Court was of the opinion that the Bundeskartellamt's claims were off the mark on various fronts.

With our Client Update dated 7 July 2016 we informed on the ministerial draft for a proposed Ninth Amendment of the German Act against Restraints of Competition...

The Federal Cartel Office ("BKartA") has imposed far-reaching restrictions on Facebook Inc. and Facebook Germany GmbH ("Facebook") with respect to their processing of user data.

On 4 February 2021, the European Commission's Directorate-General for Competition held a discussion about how EU competition policy can contribute to the Commission's

On March 13, 2020, the European Commission approved and cleared the first European State Aid scheme operated by Denmark to compensate organisers of events for loss or damage caused by...

The EU General Court ("Court") reduced the fines imposed on Servier SAS and its subsidiaries ("Servier") from a total of €428 million to €315 million ...

Following the ECJ's landmark judgment in Illumina/GRAIL, the Commission's "secret weapon" to catch below the threshold mergers, Article 22 referrals, is off the table, at least in its original version.

Increasing geopolitical tensions have triggered a fundamental change in European and German security policy and establishing European defence capabilities is more important than ever.

Cartels have long since ceased to be forged exclusively at highway service stations. Back in 2017, we highlighted the effects of digitalization on antitrust compliance in an article ("Antitrust law 4.0").