Christian Horstkotte

Sep 5, 2024 | jdsupra.com | Jean-Maxime Blutel |Guillaume de Meersman |Christian Horstkotte

With its eagerly-awaited Illumina/Grail judgment on 3 September 2024, the Court of Justice of the European Union (“ECJ”) closed a transatlantic saga and rejected the European Commission's ("Commission") extended interpretation of Article 22 of the EU Merger Control Regulation ("EUMR") by finding that the Commission had no right to receive referrals of proposed concentrations not meeting the thresholds of the national competition authorities.

Jul 3, 2024 | mondaq.com | Hannah Ha |Christian Horstkotte |Nathalie Jalabert Doury |Kelly Kramer

Dawn raids are back – and they're bigger and bolder than ever before. Authorities are now copying personal electronic devices and seizing information from social media accounts, visiting individual homes, raiding premises in different countries at the same time, and acting on the basis of their own preliminary investigatory work rather than a leniency application.

Jul 11, 2023 | lexology.com | Nikolay Mizulin |Aymeric de Moncuit |Andrea Pomana |Paulette Vander Schueren |Sarah Wilks |Jean-Maxime Blutel | +3 more

IntroductionThis week, the first tranche of rules in the European Commission’s Foreign Subsidies Regulation (“FSR”) package begins to take effect. This imposes on businesses a new set of rules seeking to combat the effects of potentially distortive subsidies granted by third countries to companies operating in the EU.

May 25, 2023 | mondaq.com | Nathalie Jalabert-Doury |Christian Horstkotte |Aymeric de Moncuit |Andrea Pomana

The European Commission ("Commission") has recently announced an important programme to revise and update information explaining how it applies EU competition rules on the abuse of a dominant position, namely Article 102 TFEU, to exclusionary behaviour1.

May 15, 2023 | lexology.com | Nathalie Jalabert-Doury |Christian Horstkotte |Aymeric de Moncuit |Andrea Pomana |Sarah Wilks

The European Commission ("Commission") has recently announced an important programme to revise and update information explaining how it applies EU competition rules on the abuse of a dominant position, namely Article 102 TFEU, to exclusionary behaviour1.