by Kevin Coates | Apr 15, 2015 | Commentary Elsewhere
From Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog: Keep Calm—Yes; Carry on—No! A Response to Whish on Intel “Brian Sher, Nabarro LLP argues Keep Calm—Yes; Carry on—No! A Response to Whish on Intel. ABSTRACT: In November 2014 Professor Richard Whish published an...
by Kevin Coates | Jan 29, 2015 | Commentary Elsewhere
From Competition Bulletin: Eurotunnel: when buying assets is a merger “When is an asset acquisition a merger? As the Eurotunnel litigation shows, the answer is not clear-cut. The background is the 2011 liquidation of the cross-channel ferry company SeaFrance. It...
by Kevin Coates | Sep 29, 2014 | Commentary Elsewhere
From Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog: Period of limitations in follow-on competition cases: when does a ‘decision’ become final? “Pınar Akman, Associate Professor of Law, School of Law, University of Leeds asks Period of limitations in follow-on...
by Kevin Coates | Sep 29, 2014 | Commentary Elsewhere
From Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog: The French Taxi Case: Where Competition Meets—and Overrides—Regulation “Liliana Eskenazi, Allen & Overy discusses The French Taxi Case: Where Competition Meets—and Overrides—Regulation. ABSTRACT: A new market for...
by Kevin Coates | Sep 29, 2014 | Commentary Elsewhere
From Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog: Patent Trolls “Lauren Cohen, Harvard Business School; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Umit G. Gurun, University of Texas at Dallas – Naveen Jindal School of Management, and Scott Duke Kominers,...
by Kevin Coates | Sep 15, 2014 | Commentary Elsewhere
From Chillin’Competition: Groupement des Cartes Bancaires and the resilience of the case law on restrictions by object “The ECJ judgment in Groupement des Cartes Bancaires will be discussed at length in the coming months (maybe more so than MasterCard)....