Antitrust Code by Concurrences

Abuse of Platform Power with Friso Bostoen (Tilburg University)

Join us for an engaging discussion with Friso Bostoen about his latest book, "Abuse of Platform Power: Leveraging Conduct in Digital Markets under EU Competition Law and Beyond," released by Concurrences. In this comprehensive dialogue, Bostoen delves into the critical issues surrounding abuse of dominance in the rapidly evolving platform economy.

In this book, Bostoen provides an in-depth analysis of how traditional concepts of abuse of dominance apply in the context of digital platforms. The book begins with an examination of platform business strategies, setting the stage for a detailed exploration of various forms of leveraging abuse, including tying, refusal to supply, margin squeeze, and discrimination. Bostoen’s analysis is particularly relevant as he offers a fresh perspective on how these practices should be understood and addressed within the unique dynamics of the platform economy.

Explore the full scope of Friso Bostoen’s work and gain insights into one of the most pressing issues in modern competition law. For more details, visit the book’s page on Concurrences.

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A Discussion on the Egyptian Competition Regime, including the New Merger Control Framework with Dr. Mahmoud Momtaz (Egyptian Competition Authority)

In this new episode, Hugh Hollman (A&O Shearman) interviewed Dr. Mahmoud Momtaz (Egyptian Competition Authority) on where we are and what is to come for the New Egyptian Competition Regime including the New Merger Control Framework.

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1. Tamer Nagy, Nazly Khedr, The Egyptian Government publishes the implementing regulation on the amended Competition Act to herald a new merger control regime, 4 April 2024.

2. Hegui Taha, Maha El Meihy, Rana Moustafa, The Egyptian House of Representatives approves the amendments to the national Competition Law to herald landmark reforms in the merger control regime, 4 December 2022.

3. J. Mark Gidley, Tamer Nagy, Ahmad Ashraf, The Egyptian Government approves its first pre-notification merger regime, 25 November 2020.

4. Marianela López-Galdos, The Egyptian Prime Minister approves amendment to the national Competition Act granting independence of its Competition Authority, 18 December 2011.

20 years of competition policy and the first stage of implementation of the DMA with Olivier Guersent (DG COMP) by Khushita Vasant (MLex)

In this live event, Khushita Vasant (MLex) is interviewing Olivier Guersent (DG COMP) on 20 years of competition policy and the first stage of implementation of the DMA.

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1. European Commission, The EU Commission designates a multinational booking platform as a gatekeeper in the online intermediation market (Booking.com), 13 May 2024.

2. Alain Ronzano, Digital Markets Act: The European Commission designates a Big Tech company as a gatekeeper under the Digital Markets Act with respect to its operating system for tablets (Apple), 29 April 2024.

3. US Department of Justice Antitrust Division, The EU Commission, US FTC and DoJ hold a joint technology and competition policy dialogue to strengthen cooperation and promote fair competition in the digital economy, 11 April 2024.

4. Alain Ronzano, Digital Markets Act: The European Commission launches five non-compliance investigations against GAFAMs, as well as two preliminary investigations on suspicion that four of the six gatekeepers are not fully complying with the obligations laid down by the DMA (Alphabet ; Apple ; Meta), 25 March 2024.

5. Alain Ronzano, Digital Markets Act : The European Commission designated gatekeepers who must comply with all obligations provided for by the regulation on digital markets (Apple, Alphabet, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft et ByteDance), 7 March 2024.

6. Alain Ronzano, Digital Markets Act : The European Commission concludes, after four market investigations, that certain platforms from the GAFAM should not be considered as gatekeepers (iMessage ; Bing ; Edge ; Microsoft Advertising), 13 February 2024.

7. General Court of the European Union, The EU General Court dismisses a video-sharing service provider’s challenge to its designation as a gatekeeper (Bytedance), 9 February 2024.

8. Thomas Graf, Robbert Snelders, Henry Mostyn, Sabrina Apitz-Grossman, Conor Opdebeeck-Wilson, Bianca Buzatu, The EU Commission designates the first set of gatekeepers under the Digital Markets Act (Alphabet / Amazon / Apple / ByteDance / Meta / Microsoft), 6 September 2023.

 

Where are we and what is to come for Artificial Intelligence Antitrust with Yann Guthmann (French Competition Authority)

In this new episode, Fayrouze Masmi-Dazi (Dazi Avocats) interviewed Yann Guthmann (French Competition Authority) on where are we and what is to come for Artificial Intelligence Antitrust.

 

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1. Fayrouze Masmi-Dazi, Edging antitrust enforcement in the generative artificial intelligence era, May 2024.

2. UK Competition Authority, The UK Competition Authority seeks views on whether partnerships, hiring of former employees and other arrangements among AI companies, comply with UK merger regulations (Microsoft / Mistral AI / Amazon / Anthropic / Microsoft / Inflection AI), 24 April 2024.

3. Henry Mostyn, Anders Jay, Aleksandra Katolik, Ghazzal Maydanchi, The UK Competition Authority publishes its updated review of AI Foundation Models which highlights that the sector is developing in ways that risk negative market outcomes, 11 April 2024.

4. French Competition Authority, The French Competition Authority initiates ex officio inquiries and launches a public consultation into generative artificial intelligence, 8 February 2024.

5. German Competition Authority, The German Competition Authority announces that the investments and cooperation between a Big Tech and an artificial intelligence company are not subject to merger control (Microsoft / OpenAI), 15 November 2023.

 

Merger Control & FDI with Neil Dryden (Compass Lexecon) and Leigh Oliver (Clifford Chance)

In this new episode, Neil Dryden (Compass Lexecon) and Leigh Oliver (Clifford Chance) discussing with Rima Alaily (Microsoft), 
Aditi Mehta (U.S. Department of Justice), Vijay Iyer (Booking Holdings) and Anjali Patel (Verizon) on Merger Control & FDI.

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1. Nicole L. Castle, Jon B. Dubrow, Noah Feldman Greene, Gregory E. Heltzer, Joel R. Grosberg, Raymond Jacobsen, The US FTC and DOJ propose new draft Merger Guidelines which introduce substantial changes including reduction in the threshold for presuming competitive harm in horizontal mergers and a new structural presumption for vertical mergers, 19 July 2023

2. Craig A. Waldman, Aimee E. DeFilippo, Michael A. Gleason, Michael H. Knight, Jeremy P. Morrison, Pamela L. Taylor, Ryan C. Thomas, The US FTC and DOJ propose important changes to Hart-Scott-Rodino Act for premerger filings, 29 June 2023

3. Gabrielle Kohlmeier, Jennifer E. Mellott, Meghan Rissmiller, Mergers in the telecommunications sector: An overview of EU and US case law, 29 June 2023

4. David M. Harrison, Sarah Wilks, Ruth Neligan, UK : Trends in merger control post-Brexit : Fresh out of the oven, May 2023

5. Nicholas Xenakis, Ryan K. Quillian, The US House of Representatives passes a legislative package updating legislation on antitrust, FDI and mergers, 29 September 2022

6. Marc Freedman, The UK Government publishes a report summarising FDI under the new screening regime, 16 June 2022

Tech Antitrust Litigation with Joseph Ostoyich (Clifford Chance)

In this new episode, Joseph Ostoyich (Clifford Chance) discussing with Ulf Öberg (General Court of the European Union), Ana C. Reyes (U.S. District Court of Colombia) and David Tudor (Prosus) on tech antitrust litigation.

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1. European Court of Justice, The EU Court of Justice upholds the annulment of the Commission’s €1.06B fine on a chipmaker for alleged abuse of dominance through loyalty rebates (Intel), 24 October 2024.

2. Fayrouze Masmi-Dazi, Edging antitrust enforcement in the generative artificial intelligence era, May 2024.

3. David Bosco, Pauline Helly d'Angelin, Didier Theophile, Adam Kidane, Virginia Pavel Dobre, Jonathan M. Barnett, Alec J. Burnside, A look at the treatment of abusive mergers in Europe (Art. 22 of Regulation (EC) No 139/2004, Art. 102 TFEU, etc.), March 2024.

4. Alyse Stach, The US Supreme Court declines to hear an appeal concerning a judgment sharing agreement among major US meat suppliers in the case concerning the broiler chicken industry (ACR / Amick / Cargill...), 8 January 2024.

 

Digital Regulations: Americas, EU, UK & Asia with Aren Megerdichian (Compass Lexecon) and Stavroula Vryna (Clifford Chance)

In this new episode, Aren Megerdichian (Compass Lexecon) and Stavroula Vryna (Clifford Chance) are discussing Reiko Aoki (Japan Fair Trade Commission), Sarah Cardell (CMA UK), Alexandre Cordeiro Macedo (CADE) and Paula Blizzard (California Department of Justice) on the digital regulations in Americas, EU, UK & Asia.

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1. Cary Coglianese, Alicia Lai, Algorithms and Competition in the Digital Economy, 5 October 2023

2. Omar Shah, Leonidas Theodosiou, Savas Manoussakis, Nina Jayne Carroll, The UK Competition Authority releases its initial AI foundation models report and the guiding principles for firms, 18 September 2023

3. Thibault Schrepel, Generative AI, pyramids and legal institutionalism, September 2023

4. Philip Marsden, UK Competition law & Digital markets: An overview of national case law, 13 July 2023

5. Kyriakos Fountoukakos, Peter Rowland, Jose Munoz, The EU Commission publishes the names of the companies that have declared that they meet the thresholds to qualify as gatekeepers under the Digital Markets Act (Alphabet / Amazon / Apple / ByteDance / Meta / Microsoft...), 4 July 2023

6. Yannis Katsoulacos, Accelerating antitrust enforcement through the use of more presumption-based legal standards for the big-tech digital markets, May 2023

7. Nigel Parr, Anna Morfey, Christopher Eberhardt, Fiona Garside, The UK Government announces the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill to introduce a wide range of reforms in the regulation of Big Tech, 25 April 2023

8. US Department of Justice Antitrust Division, The US DoJ adds 9 State Attorneys General to its joint suit against a Big Tech company for monopolising digital advertising technologies (Google), 17 April 2023

9. US Department of Justice Antitrust Division, The US DoJ, FTC, and EU Commission hold the third meeting of the EU-US Joint Technology Competition Policy Dialogue, 30 March 2023

10. Adam Acosta, Mark J. Gidley, George Paul, Gabriela Baca, Cassandra Calderon, Sandra González Sánchez, The US DoJ joins with the Latin American Competition Authorities to launch parallel investigations and enforcement actions involving alleged anticompetitive restrictions on digital products and in-app purchases, digital advertising, self-preferencing, and various exclusivity arrangements, 2 March 2023

How the CMA works? - Sarah Cardell (UK CMA)

In this new episode, Sharis Pozen (Clifford Chance) is interviewing Sarah Cardell (UK CMA) on how the CMA works.

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1. Bill Batchelor, Aurora Luoma, Nick Wolfe, Iacovos Antoniou, The UK Government sees its new Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act come into force handing more powers the Competition Authority, 1 January 2025.

2. Tom Smith, The UK Parliament’s Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill receives royal assent, 24 May 2024.

3. James Mulligan, Eric Pennesi, The UK Competition Authority publishes an update paper outlining its concerns with AI foundation models, 11 April 2024.

4. Nigel Parr, Christopher Eberhardt, Fiona Garside, Hayden Dunnett, The UK Competition Authority publishes an overview of its provisional approach to implementing the new Digital Markets regime explaining how it will carry out its Digital Markets functions, 11 January 2024.

5. David M. Harrison, Sarah Wilks, Ruth Neligan, UK : Trends in merger control post-Brexit : Fresh out of the oven, May 2023.

How Tech Shapes the Future of Antitrust. A Discussion with David Tudor (Prosus) and Neil Dryden (Compass Lexecon)

In this new episode, Neil Dryden (Compass Lexecon) is interviewing David Tudor (Prosus) on how tech shapes the future of antitrust.

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Current competition enforcement tool for dealing with fast moving digital market with Alexandre Cordeiro Macedo (CADE)

In this new episode, Milena Robotham (Clifford Chance) is interviewing Alexandre Cordeiro Macedo (CADE) on the current competition enforcement tool for dealing with fast moving digital market.

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1. Cary Coglianese, Alicia Lai, Algorithms and Competition in the Digital Economy, 5 October 2023

2. Omar Shah, Leonidas Theodosiou, Savas Manoussakis, Nina Jayne Carroll, The UK Competition Authority releases its initial AI foundation models report and the guiding principles for firms, 18 September 2023

3. Thibault Schrepel, Generative AI, pyramids and legal institutionalism, September 2023

4. Philip Marsden, UK Competition law & Digital markets: An overview of national case law, 13 July 2023

5. Kyriakos Fountoukakos, Peter Rowland, Jose Munoz, The EU Commission publishes the names of the companies that have declared that they meet the thresholds to qualify as gatekeepers under the Digital Markets Act (Alphabet / Amazon / Apple / ByteDance / Meta / Microsoft...), 4 July 2023

6. Yannis Katsoulacos, Accelerating antitrust enforcement through the use of more presumption-based legal standards for the big-tech digital markets, May 2023

7. Nigel Parr, Anna Morfey, Christopher Eberhardt, Fiona Garside, The UK Government announces the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill to introduce a wide range of reforms in the regulation of Big Tech, 25 April 2023

8. US Department of Justice Antitrust Division, The US DoJ adds 9 State Attorneys General to its joint suit against a Big Tech company for monopolising digital advertising technologies (Google), 17 April 2023

9. US Department of Justice Antitrust Division, The US DoJ, FTC, and EU Commission hold the third meeting of the EU-US Joint Technology Competition Policy Dialogue, 30 March 2023

10. Adam Acosta, Mark J. Gidley, George Paul, Gabriela Baca, Cassandra Calderon, Sandra González Sánchez, The US DoJ joins with the Latin American Competition Authorities to launch parallel investigations and enforcement actions involving alleged anticompetitive restrictions on digital products and in-app purchases, digital advertising, self-preferencing, and various exclusivity arrangements, 2 March 2023