Antitrust & Merger Control

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• Amazon is being fined €4m for unbalanced clauses in the contracts with its marketplace's third-party vendors.

  Article

  Submitted: 09 September 2019

  On September 02, 2019, the Paris Commercial Court imposed a civil fine of €4m on Amazon due to the significant imbalance resulting from 7 clauses in the contract concluded with third-party vendors on its amazon.fr platform. Amazon is also ordered to amend these clauses.

• The French Competition Authority fines Bikeurope €250,000 for restricting online sales

  Article

  Submitted: 09 July 2019

  The French Competition Authority has fined Bikeurope €250,000 for restricting online sales of its bicycles by its distributors.

• European Commission fines Nike €12.5m for restricting cross-border sales

  Article

  Submitted: 04 April 2019

  ​In June 2017, the European Commission opened an investigation into the licensing and distribution practices of Nike. It found that Nike’s licensing agreements prevented its licensees from marketing Nike derivate products cross-border and online within the European Union.

• Common Ownership Structures in Asset Management Industry Under Closer Inspection by German Competition Authorities

  Article

  Submitted: 08 February 2019

  The European competition authorities are currently taking a closer look at the asset management industry, notably also in Germany.

• New Enforcement Action in Relation to Resale Price Maintenance – Once Again Heavy Fines in Germany and France

  Article

  Submitted: 08 February 2019

  The article deals with the recent actions in Germany (ZEG) and France against companies engaging in competition law infringements in the form of resale price maintenance.

• Former fund manager fined £32,200 for disclosure of information in advance of IPO

  Article

  Submitted: 07 February 2019

  Paul Stephany was issued with a fine by the FCA for behaviour which breached FCA Handbook rules. However, the FCA elected to not consider his behaviour a breach of competition law, relying on its FSMA powers instead.

• ECJ provides guidance on gun jumping in Danish EY KPMG merger

  Article

  Submitted: 06 June 2018

  ​On 31 May 2018, in Case C-633/16 Ernst & Young P/S v Konkurrenceradet, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) provided much welcomed guidance in a preliminary ruling regarding gun jumping.

• The French Competition Authority has, for the first time, imposed sanctions on a company for obstruction of an investigation before any decision has even been made on the merits

  Article

  Submitted: 22 December 2017

  The French Competition Authority (FCA) has implemented for the first time the procedure provided for by the second paragraph of Article L464-2 V of the French Commercial Code, which allows it to impose a financial penalty on any company obstructing one of its investigations.

• The French Competition Authority imposes a fine of €25m on Janssen-Cilag for restricting generic development of its originator Durogesic

  Article

  Submitted: 21 December 2017

  The pharmaceutical company Ratiopharm, which became Teva Santé, brought a claim before the French Competition Authority (FCA) on 06 March 2009 for undue interference by Janssen-Cilag into the procedure for issuing a marketing authorization for Teva Santé’s generic version of the drug Durogesic in order to delay the entry of generic competition to Durogesic on the French market.

• Google’s pricey penalty - search engine fined a record €2.42bn by European Commission for favouring its own shopping comparison tool

  Article

  Submitted: 30 June 2017

  ​The European Commission has imposed a record €2.42bn fine on Google for abusing its dominant position in the search engine market.

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