Oral leniency statements do not enjoy the intended protection against disclosure.

The Rotterdam District Court ruled that the ACM should have granted a leniency applicant full immunity from fines upon confessing to its involvement in a cartel.

Parent companies may pay more dearly for their subsidiaries’ cartel crimes than they may have expected.

The General Court agreed with the air carriers on there being a contradiction between the grounds and the operative part of the contested decision.

The European Commission and the Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China have signed a best practices agreement for collaboration in the review of mergers and acquisitions.

The European Commission recently published guidance on the notion of state aid to help companies and public authorities determine whether public investments first need to be notified to the Commission.

In the midst of a global pandemic, with so many changes in all aspects of our lives, 2021 promises to become another important year in in the development of competition law.

Less than four years have passed since the first edition of the book was published. If one however looks at the number and magnitude of the developments that have occurred since...

The European Commission recently launched a public consultation on whether the EU's national competition authorities should be given additional tools to enforce the EU antitrust rules.

Although the Proposed Guidelines mean a ‘big step in the right direction', according to Snoep, they stop short of providing sufficiently precise guidance.

In an interim judgment of 28 February 2024, the District Court of Amsterdam ruled inter alia on the duty to furnish facts for claimants in liability proceedings following an infringement of competition law rules.

Companies should brace themselves for the extra attention that their agreements with online distributors, in particular, are likely to get.

The ruling resulted from a civil claim for damages brought by the electricity company TenneT against the gas-insulated switchgear ("GIS") manufacturer ABB.

The Dutch competition authority has closed an investigation into alleged resale price maintenance in the home furnishings sector. ACM began the investigation following indications that suppliers had imposed minimum prices on retailers.