19 Jul, 2024 A new legal expert guide on Competition Law and IP rights by Pat Treacy, former head of Bristows competition team By Sophie Lawrance Elgar Competition Law and Practice series Bristows is delighted to announce the publication of the authoritative resource on the...
15 Jul, 2024 DMCC Act: The CMA gets a boost with a raft of competition law changes By Edwin Bond Antonia Kendrick The DMCC Act has been in the limelight since receiving royal assent on 24 May 2024. Much of the focus has been on the new digital markets...
25 Jun, 2024 Biotech Review of the Year: Six months on By Bristows LLP It's hard to believe that six months have passed since we released the 11th edition of our Biotech Review of the Year publication. Our...
13 Jun, 2024 Takeaways from the EU Pharma Law Forum 2024 By Jamie Hatzel Bristows was delighted to sponsor and attend this year’s EU Pharmaceutical Law Forum, which was held in Brussels at the Steigenberger...
04 Jun, 2024 Digital Markets Competition Regime: DMCC Act now published By Francion Brooks The final text of the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 (the “DMCC Act”) was published yesterday. This Act, which...
24 May, 2024 Reflections on CAT's Prochlorperazine judgment (and other pharma cases that got away...) By Sophie Lawrance Some five and a half years after the CMA's October 2017 dawn raids on a host of UK generics-focussed pharmaceutical companies, the CAT...
30 Apr, 2024 Competition law and data protection meet again By Francion Brooks Over recent years there has been a raft of developments at the intersection of competition law and data protection. Both the UK and EU...
23 Apr, 2024 Administrative Court (re-)confirms CMA's right to raid domestic premises By Sophie Lawrance I spoke to GCR on 22 April [full article behind paywall] about the Administrative Court judgment on the CMA's appeal of a judgment in...
12 Apr, 2024 CMA's potential competition concerns for Foundation Models/Generative AI By Matthew Hunt The CMA has published an update paper building upon its initial review of Foundation Models (FMs) (the technology underpinning generative...
12 Jan, 2024 European Commission joins UK Competition and Markets Authority in examining application of merger control rules to OpenAI/Microsoft partnership By Sean-Paul Brankin On 9 January 2024, the European Commission (EU) issued a press release announcing that it is reviewing whether Microsoft’s investment in...
11 Dec, 2023 OpenAI/Microsoft partnership attracts attention under UK merger control rules By Sean-Paul Brankin The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has invited comments on whether the partnership between Microsoft and OpenAI constitutes a...
11 Oct, 2023 EU Foreign Subsidies Regulations – 10 things businesses need to know before 12 October 2023 By Victoria Yuan Victoria Yuan discusses the FSR's decision to introduce a new mandatory and suspensory notification obligation on parties to large...