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JFTC's ability to fine foreign companies for cartel conduct upheld...

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Italian Competition Authority looks to sink their boot into pay TV networks over soccer rights...

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The Australian merger control regime can be frustrating for both domestic and international merger parties.  The Harper Committee has recognised by making a number of recommendations in its final report to improve the regime. In the video...

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KWM partners Wayne Leach & Andrew Monotti discuss competition law issues arising from the privatisation of state-owned assets, including implications of the Harper Report's recommendations...

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Putting the wrong foot forward…

March 31, 2015 | 0 Comments

CMA probes alleged anti-competitive conduct in the UK clothing, footwear and fashion sector....

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Although not a new phenomenon, “drip pricing” tactics have been targeted as part of the ACCC’s consumer protection enforcement agenda. As we previously blogged, drip pricing involves the incremental addition of further fees above the...

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Hong Kong’s new competition law, which is expected to start next year, is already having an impact on businesses in the city.  The new law prohibits price fixing and other forms of anti-competitive conduct. Recommended...

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By the numbers

August 13, 2014 | 0 Comments

Our colleagues at KWM in London recently summed up the UK Competition and Markets Authority’s (CMA) track record on phase 1 UK merger enquiries (see their article here) based on statistics published by the CMA....

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Cartel offender takes action against EU

July 3, 2014 | 0 Comments

Earlier this year, we reported on the first successful extradition of a foreign national for criminal anti-competitive conduct. In April 2014, Italian citizen Romano Pisciotti was extradited to the United States from Germany for bid-rigging conduct...

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Airlines in deep water over drip pricing

June 20, 2014 | 0 Comments

The ACCC has launched Federal Court proceedings against Jetstar Airways (“Jetstar”) and Virgin Australia Airlines (“Virgin”) in relation to so-called “drip pricing” of airfares on their online sites. The ACCC alleges that the airlines engaged...

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