As the e-book saga continues, Apple Inc. has had its day in court in the US… and the decision shows that it didn’t go well. As reported in our previous post, Apple was the only...
Read More →Following on from the recent controversy surrounding the investigations into abuse of market power by Apple with regards to e-book pricing (both in Europe and the United States), it has emerged that the ‘Autorité de...
Read More →The European Commission has approved IntercontinentalExchange’s (ICE) acquisition of NYSE Euronext for $8.2 billion in the biggest financial exchange merger since NYSE Euronext and Deutsche Börse’s $10 billion failed merger in 2011. In a statement...
Read More →Given our previous posts on the topic you would be forgiven for thinking we have a particular interest in Corona sales. Rather, the AB InBev / Grupo Modelo merger has been instructive both in terms...
Read More →In today’s issue of our quarterly newsletter Regulator, Greg Golding and Andris Gauja have written an update on the snowballing LIBOR scandal, looking at the penalties imposed, the possibility of class actions and ongoing financial...
Read More →Shiu Lung Leung, former senior manager in the desktop display business at AU Optronics, has been sentenced to two years in prison and a US$50,000 fine by the US District Court for the Northern District...
Read More →Significant reforms to New Zealand competition law are one step closer following a recommendation by the Commerce Select Committee that the Commerce (Cartels and Other Matters) Amendment Bill (the Bill) be passed with various amendments....
Read More →The last standing publisher, Penguin, has reached a settlement agreement with the European Commission (EC) which ends the EC’s 16 month long investigation into the alleged price fixing of e-books in Europe. As explained in...
Read More →The US Department of Justice (DoJ) has dropped its case seeking to block Anheuser-Busch InBev’s (AB InBev) proposed acquisition of the remaining shares in Grupo Modelo (Modelo) that it does not already own (blogged about...
Read More →On 29 March 2013, US Federal District Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald handed down a 161 page judgment dismissing a significant proportion of the class actions against banks involved in the Libor (London interbank offered rate)...
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