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European Commission Seeks To Stamp Out Envelope Cartel With Fines Totaling 19.48 Million Euros

A View from Constantine Cannon鈥檚 London Office By Ana Rojo Prada and Richard Pike The European Commission that it has imposed fines totaling 19.48 million euros on five European envelope producers for coordinating prices and allocating customers through an anticompetitive cartel. The Commission imposed fines on the five companies 鈥� Bong (of Sweden), GPV and Hamelin (both of France),...

Net Neutrality 鈥� What鈥檚 In A Name?

By Robert Schwartz

Although President Obama has endorsed a specific approach to 鈥渘et neutrality鈥� 鈥� the principle that Internet service providers should treat all data on the Internet equally 鈥� the debate over whether and how the Federal Communications Commission should enforce that principle is still raging, and may well be decided by whoever wins the battle over defining 鈥淚nternet access.鈥� In...

European Commission Hits Telecoms With Fines Of 70 Million Euros For Abusing Slovak Broadband Market

A View from Constantine Cannon鈥檚 London Office By Yulia Tosheva and听James Ashe-Taylor The European Commission has signalled that it is not dialing down its scrutiny of the telecommunications sector by on Slovak Telekom and its parent company, Deutsche Telekom. On October 15, 2014, the Commission imposed a fine of 38,838,000 euros on Slovak Telekom and Deutsche...

European Commission Settles Two Swiss Franc-Related Derivatives Investigations

A View from Constantine Cannon鈥檚 London Office By Ana Rojo Prada and听James Ashe-Taylor The European Commission has settled two cartel investigations and sanctioned four major banks in the Swiss Franc-related derivatives market, imposing total fines of approximately 94 million euros, for violations of European Union antitrust rules. Interest rate derivatives (including swaps, futures and options) are...

Brussels Antitrust Seminar Demonstrates Shifting European Landscape For Competition Enforcement In Wake Of ECJ MasterCard Judgment

A View from Constantine Cannon鈥檚 London Office By Irene Fraile听and Richard Pike The by the European Court of Justice (鈥淓CJ鈥�) in the MasterCard case is sparking a lively debate about how antitrust enforcement of payment system regimes should evolve in the European Union, as evidenced by an antitrust seminar co-sponsored by 91吃瓜网in Brussels on Monday. The ECJ鈥檚

Apple鈥檚 Appellate Challenge Of E-Books Monitor Moves To Procedural Battlefield

By Allison F. Sheedy Apple鈥檚 battle in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit against a court-appointed external antitrust compliance monitor is winding its way through a procedural thicket as the Second Circuit prepares to consider the merits of Apple鈥檚 appeal. Apple is appealing an order by Judge Denise Cote of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York refusing to disqualify...

Google鈥檚 Settlement Offer Sparks European Debate

A View from Constantine Cannon鈥檚 London Office By James Ashe-Taylor and Ana Rojo Prada

Debate continues over Google鈥檚 settlement offer in search and advertising investigation as European Commission indicates that more is needed.

Google and Rupert Murdoch鈥檚 News Corp have traded blows publicly following comments by the European Commission indicating that it would reopen its antitrust investigation into...

Antitrust Regulators Taking Aim At Drug Companies鈥� 鈥淔orced Switching鈥�

By Rosa M. Morales Signs continue to accumulate that antitrust regulators are on the lookout for innovative anticompetitive tactics by pharmaceutical companies seeking to delay entry of lower-priced generic drugs. This growing interest by federal and state regulators in policing the anticompetitive suppression of generic drugs was the subject of a recent post听on this blog by Ankur Kapoor.听 Among the antitrust...

Regulators Prescribing Higher Dose Of Pharmaceutical Antitrust Enforcement

By Ankur Kapoor Antitrust enforcers returned to their offices after Labor Day, refreshed and ready to tackle what they view to be anticompetitive practices by pharmaceutical companies to delay entry of lower-priced generic drugs. In addition to recent enforcement efforts by antitrust regulators, two federal courts have issued opinions supporting the theory underlying the enforcers鈥� new efforts to police...

European Commission Slaps Smart Card Chips Cartel With Fines

A View from Constantine Cannon鈥檚 London Office By Irene Fraile The European Commission has imposed fines totaling 138 million euros on smart card chips producers Infineon, Philips and Samsung for breaching European Union antitrust laws that prohibit cartels. According to the Commission, from September 2003 to September 2005, the companies engaged in a cartel to restrain competition relating to the smart...