Maria Karpathakis

May 23, 2024 | lexology.com | Mikkel Taanum |Pia Ek |Maria Karpathakis |Simon Hembt |Georgina Parkinson |Manuela Cox | +8 more

Bird & Bird’s International Gambling Group were delighted to host our inaugural online Global Gambling webinar on 8 May 2024. Over the course of the morning, specialists from across our international offices delivered sessions on some of the key issues shaping the industry including the UK White Paper, international regulatory updates, mass consumer claims, tax, AI and much more.

Apr 23, 2024 | lexology.com | Pauline Kuipers |Reshmi Rampersad |Tenisha Cramer |Maria Karpathakis

In the special edition on Investigations of our monthly newsletter Competitive Edge, we have shared our insights covering various topics relating to competition and regulatory investigations, including preparing for a dawn raid, the growing trend of authorities ‘outsourcing’ investigations to companies, data protection and employment-related issues to be considered in an investigation, as well as how the DMA, DSA and the AI Act would strengthen competition authorities’ investigative powers.

Apr 23, 2024 | lexology.com | Thomas Jones |Pauline Kuipers |Peter Willis |Maria Karpathakis |Reshmi Rampersad |Tenisha Cramer | +2 more

In this article, members of our international competition team share their insights on competition authorities’ investigations into both anticompetitive conduct and consumer harms. We focus on the investigation trends of the European Commission (EC), the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) and the Chinese State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR).

Feb 5, 2024 | lexblog.com | Maria Karpathakis

Although Finnish people are eager to make use of gambling services, so far the Finnish market has provided only a few locally-regulated business opportunities to gambling operators due to the gambling monopoly. However, as the development of online gambling continues, Finland has taken the first steps in opening up its gambling market to online gambling.

Apr 4, 2023 | lexblog.com | Maria Karpathakis

FINLANDAlthough Finnish people are eager to make use of gambling services, the Finnish market provides only a few locally-regulated business opportunities to gambling operators. This is due to the gambling monopoly, which Finland has been strongly defending over the past decades. However, as the development of online gambling continues, Finland turns out to be on the verge of having to reconsider the next steps in its gambling policy.