Andrew Hockley

Jan 9, 2025 | mondaq.com | Andrew Hockley |Paul Culliford |Tom Wright |Sanjay Lohano

Key competition law and digital markets aspects of the UKDigital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024("DMCC"), enforced by the UK Competition and MarketsAuthority ("CMA"), came into force on 1 January 2025. Youcan read our in-depth analyses of the DMCC here.

Jan 7, 2025 | jdsupra.com | Paul Culliford |Andrew Hockley |Tom Wright

Key competition law and digital markets aspects of the UK Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 (“DMCC”), enforced by the UK Competition and Markets Authority (“CMA”), came into force on 1 January 2025. You can read our in-depth analyses of the DMCC here.

May 1, 2024 | jdsupra.com | Andrew Hockley |Patrick Johnson

On 10 April 2024, Australia’s Federal Government announced far-reaching reforms to its merger control regime, most notably the introduction of a new single, mandatory and suspensory, merger control system. The reform package is due to come into effect from 1 January 2026 and will align Australia’s regime for reviewing M&A transactions from a competition perspective with the majority of other merger control regimes globally.

Mar 26, 2024 | lexology.com | Tom Wright |Aslan Sönmez |Jennifer Kies Mammen |Rémi Beydon |Nicholas Young |Tonio Sadoni | +4 more

SUMMARYAt a time of significant geopolitical challenges, many jurisdictions are looking at their investment screening regimes to ensure that they can adequately safeguard national security and public order. Within this context, there have been – or will likely soon be – significant changes to FDI regimes across the world.

Jun 20, 2023 | jdsupra.com | Paul Culliford |Andrew Hockley |Victoria Newbold

SUMMARYAs we reported previously, on 25 April this year the UK Government introduced the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill (“DMCC Bill”). Many of the headlines about the DMCC Bill have understandably related to the new regulatory regime for digital markets and companies with “strategic market status”, and there are also changes proposed to the UK’s consumer protection laws.