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Antitrust regulators around the world, including in the UK, have recently proposed changes to merger review policies and enforcement strategies that will likely lead to heightened scrutiny—and...

Over the coming months, years, and decades the digital transformation will raise questions as to whether we need new laws and regulations, should modify existing ones, or do nothing at all. Much of...

The foreign exchange market has been called ‘the world’s largest financial market where trillions are traded daily’. It is also a global financial market in which a variety of global financial...

At a roundtable in Brussels in May, NYU law Professor Harry First described the European Union’s proposed Digital Markets Act (DMA)—an ambitious regulatory proposal aimed at large platforms...

The advent of big tech has re-defined the fundamental rules of the market. Most of these tech companies offer free services to customers, and these freebies raise several questions. Tech companies...

Recently a complaint was filed before the Competition Commission of India (CCI) alleging that Apple forces developers on Apple’s App Store to use its in-app payment system and charges an exorbitant...

The EU Commission has presented three cornerstones of its digital regulation approach in November and December of 2020: the drafts of the Digital Markets Act (DMA), the Digital Services Act (DSA),...

E-marketplaces are at the forefront of the digital revolution in India and are of undeniable importance to consumers and sellers/business users that operate upon it. Reinforced further by the COVID-...

A lot has already been said about the EU draft regulation for Artificial Intelligence (the ‘Regulation’), published by the European Commission on 21 April 2021. What has however remained little...

The German Regional Court of Mannheim dealt in Case 2 O 34/19 dated 18 August 2020 with Daimler’s alleged infringement of Nokia’s Standard Essential Patents (‘SEPs’) and found that Daimler was using...

On March 24, 2021, the Competition Commission of India (‘CCI’) took suo moto cognizance and launched an investigation against WhatsApp and Facebook (‘Investigation Order’). This was a result of...

On October 2, 2020, India and South Africa submitted a proposal to the World Trade Organization for a waiver of some intellectual property rights under the TRIPS Agreement related to the prevention,...

The rise of the Internet of Things (IoT) is set to add a new layer of complexity to the current practice of standard essential patents (SEPs) licensing. While until recently the debate centred on the...

Some digital information intermediaries, such as Google and Facebook, enjoy significant and durable market power. Concerns regarding the anti-competitive effects of such power have largely focused on...

Over the past few years, the Chinese authorities have been increasingly concerned about the enormous economic power and influence of the country’s big tech companies, especially those operating in...

Recent developments have placed antitrust law on a collision course with corporate purpose. In a new paper, I reveal the unforeseen negative impacts of this conflict and provide a roadmap for...

On 31 August 2020, the Australian Law Reform Commission’s Final Report on Corporate Criminal Responsibility was tabled in the Australian Parliament. The ALRC made 20 recommendations to strengthen and...

Around the globe, legislatures have become active in providing competition authorities with new tools and resources to curb the market power of Big Tech. Germany is one of the countries at the...

For quite some time, artificial intelligence (in the following: AI) has been at the centre of attention of IP and competition law scholars. Yet, the role unfair competition law (in the following: UCL...