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The European Commission has lowered a fine to be imposed on ARA for blocking its competitors from entering the Austrian household packaging waste management market...

Cartel participation as well as the act of contributing to the implementation of a cartel can lead to substantial fines.

The Supreme Court ruled that an exclusive purchasing clause had an anti-competitive object as it was concluded between parties that had a vertical as well as a horizontal relationship with each other

The competition law journal Mededingingsrecht in de Praktijk this month contains an article by Erik-Jan Zippro on a proposed EU directive on actions for damages for competition law infringements.

An overview of the key aspects of takeovers of listed companies in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom.

The new provisions will apply to the financial years starting on or after 1 January 2016 and include the following changes...

The European Parliament is expected to vote in May 2013 on the single supervisory mechanism, which allows the European Central Bank to exercise direct supervision on banks in the Eurozone.

The European Commission has put forward proposals for a single European supervisory mechanism for banks.

The CJ ruled that the relevant criterion for establishing jurisdiction in online copyright infringement cases is whether copies of the infringed works areaccessible online in the member state of the court addressed.

The European Commission has published proposals for amendment of the Transparency Directive.

Uncertainty created by the UK's vote to leave the EU has left European legal firms and financial institutions considering homes in other parts of mainland Europe.

The ECJ issued a landmark decision on 8 April 2014 invalidating the retention of telecommunication traffic and location data by telecom service providers.

You have probably read about the OECD's comprehensive base erosion and profit shifting (or BEPS) action plan aimed at tackling undesirable international tax planning by corporates.

In connection with the current situation in the Middle East, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has published a number of sanctions orders in recent months

De Brauw advised Vopak on its acquisition together with Enagás of the LNG storage and regasification terminal in Altamira, Mexico.

The European Court of Justice recently confirmed that in proving a cartel, the Commission can rely on evidence legally transmitted to it by a national tax authority.

In this newsletter we provide you an overview of the latest developments in Competition.

Denial appears to be the best strategy in preventing the Dutch competition authority, the ACM, from publishing a decision to impose a fine and thus branding a company a cartel infringer.