11/26/2025 12:51:58 PM UK Competition and Markets Authority launches its first consumer enforcement action – what businesses need to know By Victoria Yuan Stephen Smith Sean Ibbetson On 18 November, the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) used its direct enforcement powers under the Digital Markets, Competition...
11/21/2025 5:03:53 PM Bitter medicine for Cinven By Sophie Lawrance David Horner Victoria Yuan Oliver Alsop +1 more... Show less CMA reportedly seeking first Competition Disqualification Orders against PE fund directors Summary The UK Competition and Markets...
11/13/2025 5:22:50 PM Judgment in second-hand software dispute By Anna Cook The Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) has handed down a judgment on two preliminary issues relating to the reselling of software licences...
10/22/2025 12:19:36 PM Competition-IP Interface: Transactions, Collaboration, and Unilateral Conduct (EU) By Sophie Lawrance Edwin Bond Iva Gobac Reproduced from Practical Law with the permission of the publishers. For further information, visit practicallaw.com. A Practice Note...
10/21/2025 3:18:56 PM Fashion Victims: European Commission fines Gucci, Chloé and Loewe €157 million for resale price fixing By Edwin Bond Iva Gobac On 14 October 2025, the European Commission announced that it had imposed fines of over €157 million on luxury fashion houses Gucci,...
8/14/2025 11:42:10 AM Women’s healthcare and UK competition enforcement – recent developments By Antonia Kendrick Healthcare generally is a priority enforcement sector for competition watchdogs across the world, including the UK’s Competition and...
7/30/2025 2:34:53 PM Biotech Review of the Year: latest developments By Bristows LLP At the start of the year, our editors (Xisca Borrás, Katie Cambrook and Aida Tohala) presented to you the 12th edition of our Biotech...
7/11/2025 8:39:50 AM Some comfort at last - European Commission issues informal guidance endorsing Automotive Licensing Negotiation Group By Sophie Lawrance Katharine Head On 9 July 2025, the European Commission (EC) issued informal guidance (aka a ‘comfort letter’) that the creation of a Licensing...
6/24/2025 11:09:04 AM Interim injunctions in the Competition Appeal Tribunal - recent developments By Sophie Lawrance A perennial complaint about competition law is that it takes too long. Investigations and litigation can often run for many years before...
6/19/2025 2:50:14 PM Not playing nicely: abuse of dominance in the toy industry By Edwin Bond On 16 June the UK High Court handed down an entertaining judgment in a dispute between MGA Entertainment, one of the world’s largest toy...
5/29/2025 4:12:44 PM “Context always matters”: AG Emiliou’s Opinion on no-poach agreements in the Tondela case By Edwin Bond In his recent Opinion in Case C-133/24 Tondela and others, Advocate General Emiliou has suggested that a no-poach agreement concluded...
4/15/2025 9:20:07 AM The CMA’s new enforcement and investigatory powers By Georgia Austin Sean Ibbetson The consumer law provisions of the DMCC Act came into force on Sunday 6 April reforming consumer protection in the UK. To learn more...