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1 month ago | 
mlex.com | Frank Hersey |Jon Menon
By Frank Hersey and Jon Menon ( March 10, 2025, 14:46 GMT | Insight) -- The UK’s new consumer powers will focus early enforcement on only the most egregious breaches of the law as it adopts a “phased approach,” to give companies more time to adapt to the changes and engage with the regulator, the country’s top antitrust enforcer said.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
mlex.com | Jon Menon
By Jon Menon ( January 16, 2025, 11:10 GMT | Insight) -- Viavi Solutions is considering making an offer for the Spirent Communications’ high-speed ethernet and network security assets that are being auctioned as part of Keysight Technologies’ efforts to get antitrust approval for its acquisition of Spirent, MLex has learned....
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
mlex.com | Jon Menon
By Jon Menon ( January 13, 2025, 17:05 GMT | Insight) -- Japanese shipper MOL and other defendants have sought to misrepresent the class representative's arguments in a mass damages action over a car-transportation cartel, a court was told on the first day of a UK trial that’s expected to run for more than two months....
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
mlex.com | Jon Menon
By Jon Menon ( January 10, 2025, 10:47 GMT | Insight) -- Spreadex has appealed the UK antitrust regulator’s order to unwind its acquisition of online sports betting company Sporting Index over a finding that the deal would harm competition....
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
mlex.com | Jon Menon
By Jon Menon ( January 8, 2025, 12:04 GMT | Insight) -- US chip design toolmaker Synopsys took a big step closer to gaining UK antitrust approval for its $35 billion buyout of Ansys after the antitrust regulator said that planned asset sales may be sufficient to ease its competition concerns....
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Sep 24, 2024 | 
mlexmarketinsight.com | Jon Menon
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Apple, Amazon urge UK court to throw out mass claim after first cross-examination
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Apple and Amazon told a judge today that a mass claim over online sales should be thrown out, after a proposed class representative was cross-examined for the first time at a specialist UK competition court.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
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Apple to see two UK damages claims over App Store fees heard at separate trials
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Apple will face separate trials over two separate mass claims for damages relating to the fees it charges on its App Store, a UK court decided today.
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Sep 5, 2024 | 
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Home / News / Mergers & Acquisitions / Comment: Tate & Lyle Sugars deal shows exit door is open for UK merger clearance Mergers & Acquisitions Published 05 Sep 2024 15:32 Modified 05 Sep 2024 15:32 In-depth merger review Tate & Lyle Sugars’ buyout of Tereos UK and Ireland’s retail business gained UK antitrust clearance, even though it will create a company with a share of as much as 60 percent of the white granulated sugar market. Critically, the Competition and Markets Authority’s in-depth...
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Jul 31, 2024 | 
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DAF Trucks’ bid to challenge cartel damages decision refused by UK’s top court
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DAF Trucks has been denied permission by the UK Supreme Court to challenge a ruling against the Dutch manufacturer over damages relating to a pricing cartel. The company applied to appeal after the Court of Appeal in February this year decided that BT and Royal Mail were rightly paid out
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Jul 29, 2024 | 
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Qualcomm wrangles with UK mass claimant over disclosure issues
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Qualcomm and a class representative, seeking damages over the US chip giant’s alleged abuse of dominance, clashed in a UK court today over issues ranging from levels of disclosure to the relevance of evidence to be used in a future trial. The claim brought by the Consumers’ Association alleges that
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