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,...
9/4/2025 8:26:40 AM Injunctions: Taking the hackers to court By Marc Dautlich Freya Ollerearnshaw Imagine your organisation falls victim to a nightmare cyber extortion event. Hopefully you have a cyber response plan already in place,...
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...
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...
3/24/2025 3:54:56 PM An Epic reload: Fortnite fires back at iOS in Brazil By Matthew Hunt Sze-Von Lam Epic Games is ‘dropping in’ to Brazil this July by bringing Fortnite to iOS through its very own app store. This comes after a recent...
3/12/2025 3:59:08 PM Spreadex-Sporting Index: CMA requests that its own merger assessment be quashed given material errors By Sze-Von Lam Francion Brooks In an unexpected turn, the CMA requested that the CAT quash the CMA’s own decision in the assessment of the Spreadex-Sporting Index...
3/3/2025 9:57:39 AM Offside! CJEU judgment that finds FIFA transfer rules anti-competitive set to have major implications for the football transfer market By Stephen Smith Sean-Paul Brankin Iva Gobac This material was first published by Thomas Reuters, trading as Sweet & Maxwell, 5 Canada Square, Canary Wharf, London, E14 5AQ, in...
11/11/2024 1:08:49 PM Competition law guidance on designing and implementing selective distribution schemes By Francion Brooks The Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) has provided guidance on the application of competition law to selective distribution arrangements...