Reshmi Rampersad

Jun 19, 2024 | lexology.com | Pauline Kuipers |Reshmi Rampersad

The Dutch savings market has been a topic of concern for the Dutch Minister of Finance due to the low savings rates compared to the European Central Bank's (“ECB”) policy rate. In 2023, the Netherlands Authority for Consumers & Markets (“ACM”) started a market study to examine the relationship between the lack of competition in the Dutch savings market and the low savings rates.

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).

Jan 17, 2024 | lexology.com | Pauline Kuipers |Reshmi Rampersad

Introduction In recent years, artificial intelligence (“AI”) has emerged as a transformative technology with vast potential to reshape various industries. However, concerns about its potential anti-competitive effects have prompted regulatory action. As a part of the European Union's Digital Strategy, which aims to support Europe's digital transformation, the draft Artificial Intelligence Act (“Draft AI Act”) was proposed by the European Commission (“Commission”) in 2021.

Aug 10, 2023 | mondaq.com | Pauline Kuipers |Reshmi Rampersad

The District Court for the central region of the Netherlands (Rechtbank Midden-Nederland) rejected a request for interim relief by the European Football Agents association and Pro Agent, both associations of football agents, against the KNVB (Dutch national football association) and FIFA. This interim relief procedure was initiated to stop FIFA from implementing the new FIFA Football Agent Regulations ("FFAR"). The court rejected this request.