28 Nov, 2024 DMCC digital markets competition regime comes into force on 1 Jan 2025 By Francion Brooks The DMCC Act introduces the most significant changes to competition law for over 20 years including a new digital markets competition...
10 Sep, 2024 DMCC Act: plans for implementation announced By Francion Brooks The Government has set out its plans for implementation of the DMCC Act. In particular, the Government aims to commence the provisions...
13 Aug, 2024 DMCC Act: Enforcement and penalties By Francion Brooks In our Spotlight series on the DMCC Act we have explored which big tech firms may be designated as having strategic market status (SMS)...
02 Aug, 2024 DMCC Act: CMA consults on updates to merger guidance By Francion Brooks This week the CMA published a consultation on draft updates to six of its merger guidance documents. These largely reflect the...
01 Aug, 2024 DMCC Act: investigating and monitoring digital markets By Francion Brooks The DMCC Act introduces a digital markets competition regime giving the CMA a range of new powers in relation to firms with significant...
25 Jul, 2024 DMCC Act: Private enforcement & competition litigation By Matthew Hunt Competition litigation is on the rise. Data from litigation analytics firm Solomonic (here) charts a substantial increase in 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...
09 Jul, 2024 Subscribe here: A spotlight on consumer contracts By Alice Esuola-Grant Elisa Lindemann In this fifth article of our Spotlight series on the DMCC Act, we provide an overview of some of the new consumer protection measures set...
02 Jul, 2024 DMCC Act: A guide to the new merger rules By Stephen Smith Victoria Yuan The DMCC Act introduces the most significant changes to the UK merger control regime since the Enterprise Act 2002: changes to the...
21 Jun, 2024 DMCC Act: The new digital markets competition regime for SMS firms By Francion Brooks The DMCC Act introduces a digital markets competition regime giving the CMA a range of new powers in relation to firms with significant...
14 Jun, 2024 DMCC Act: Strategic market status By Sophie Lawrance James Batsford In this first article of our Spotlight series on the DMCC Act, we take a closer look at how firms will be designated as having ‘strategic...