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May 23, 2024 | 
concurrences.com | Nigel J Parr |Christopher Eberhardt |Fiona Garside |Hayden Dunnett
Over a year after it was first introduced in the House of Commons, the UK Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill (DMCC) received Royal Assent on 24 May 2024. The DMCC introduces widespread changes to competition law and consumer law enforcement in the UK, as well as a new regime regulating designated Big Tech companies. • The DMCC has now completed the legislative process. While further rules and guidance are required, we expect the key reforms to enter into force later t...
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May 23, 2024 | 
concurrences.com | Nigel J Parr |Christopher Eberhardt |Fiona Garside |Hayden Dunnett
The Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act (DMCC Act), which received Royal Assent on 24 May 2024 (see our May 2024 update), includes significant changes to the UK’s voluntary merger control regime. The reforms enhance the CMA’s jurisdiction to review transactions, in particular so-called "killer acquisitions", while also giving the CMA and merger parties more flexibility during the investigative process. The DMCC Act also significantly increases the CMA’s ability to fine undertakings...
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May 23, 2024 | 
concurrences.com | Nigel J Parr |Christopher Eberhardt |Fiona Garside |Hayden Dunnett
Previous article Next article Share on | The Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act (DMCC Act), which received Royal Assent on 24 May 2024 (see our May 2024 update), includes significant changes to the UK’s voluntary merger control regime.
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May 3, 2024 | 
concurrences.com | Anna Morfey |Fiona Garside
On 3 May 2024, the European Commission published a policy brief setting out how it is likely to view wage fixing and no poach agreements. This is the latest development in competition authorities’ increasing interest in potential competition issues in labour markets in recent years. Regulators from the USA, EU and UK have issued guidance for employers on how to comply with competition law and opened investigations into alleged anticompetitive conduct.
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Mar 21, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Rafael Baena |Gabriele Accardo |Nicolas Quoy |Fiona Garside |Nigel J Parr |Amanda K Ludlow | +4 more
Key themes, incoming reforms and cases to watchDigital platforms, online content providers and other businesses active in the digital economy face an increasingly complex and evolving legal and regulatory landscape in the EU and UK with privacy and data regulation, online safety, competition and consumer issues increasingly intertwined in the digital sphere, and new regulation such as the EU Digital Markets Act (DMA) and Digital Services Act (DSA).
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Feb 14, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Gabriele Accardo |Fiona Garside
On 21 December 2023, the Italian Supreme Administrative Court (CDS) held that the Italian competition authority, Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato (AGCM), must cooperate with the Italian Data Protection Authority (Garante Privacy) when investigations give rise to substantive data protection issues. The judgment is a significant development that will impact future AGCM investigations (including, potentially, in relation to the enforcement of the Digital Markets Act (DMA)).
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Jan 31, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Anna Morfey |Christopher Eberhardt |Fiona Garside |Hayden Dunnett
On 17 January 2024, the UK Court of Appeal confirmed that section 26 of the Competition Act 1998 (CA98) allows the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to compel the production of information and documents from companies located outside of the UK. Key takeawaysThe Court of Appeal confirmed that the CMA has the power, using a notice under section 26 of the CA98 (a s26 notice), to compel companies with no UK connection to provide it with information as part of a competition law investigation.
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Jan 17, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Nigel J Parr |Christopher Eberhardt |Fiona Garside |Hayden Dunnett
On 21 November 2023, the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill passed its third reading in the House of Commons. Consideration of the Bill has now moved to the House of Lords, which held its second debate on the Bill on 5 December 2023 before the Lords' Committee stage scheduled for late January 2024.
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Jan 16, 2024 | 
concurrences.com | Anna Morfey |Christopher Eberhardt |Fiona Garside |Hayden Dunnett
Previous article Next article Share on | On 17 January 2024, the UK Court of Appeal confirmed that section 26 of the Competition Act 1998 (CA98) allows the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to compel the production of information and documents from companies located outside of the UK.
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Jan 10, 2024 | 
concurrences.com | Nigel J Parr |Christopher Eberhardt |Fiona Garside |Hayden Dunnett
Ashurst (London) Associate Hayden Dunnett is an associate at Ashurst specialising in UK and EU competition law. He has experience across all aspects of competition law including mergers before the CMA and European Commission, investigations and private actions.
