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In this episode of Cleary Gottlieb’s Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy is joined by a panel featuring Jackie Holland, Cleary partner and former Senior Director of the UK Office of Fair Trading; Ricardo Zimbrón, former Director of Mergers at the Competition & Markets Authority and currently a partner at Cleary; Alexander Baker, CEO, Fingleton; and John Gray, Partner, FGS Global, to discuss the implications of the new Labour Government for competition enforcement and practice in the UK. Their conversation covers an array of topics, including the new government’s growth agenda, the role of politics in antitrust enforcement, merger control, consumer protection, digital regulation, and much more.

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In the latest instalment of Cleary Gottlieb’s Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy is joined by the team of lawyers who represented Illumina in its landmark appeal to the European Court of Justice, which overturned the Commission’s assertion of jurisdiction under the EU Merger Regulation over below-threshold mergers on September 3, 2024. Mario Siragusa, Enrique González-Díaz, Cesare Rizza, and Anita Magraner Oliver explain how they litigated the case, why the Court of Justice sided with Illumina, and what implications the Court’s judgment will have for EU merger control.

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In the latest instalment of Cleary Gottlieb’s Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy is joined by Martijn Snoep, Chair of the Dutch Authority for Consumers & Markets. Their conversation covers an array of topics, including the role of sustainability in antitrust enforcement, merger control, consumer protection, digital regulation, and more.

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In the latest instalment of our Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy is joined by Barry Hawk, one of antitrust law’s leading jurists and commentators.  Their conversation covers an array of topics, including the U.S. antitrust enforcement under President Biden, the evolution of EU competition law, the proliferation of antitrust agencies, digital regulation, and much more.

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In our latest instalment, host Nick Levy speaks with George Cary, one of the leading U.S. antitrust lawyers of his generation and a former Deputy Director of the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Competition. Their conversation covers the continued relevance of the consumer welfare standard, U.S. antitrust enforcement under President Biden, hipster economics, merger control, Big Tech, and more.

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In our latest installment, host Nick Levy is joined by Sir John Vickers, Warden of Oxford University’s All Souls College and a former head of the Office of Fair Trading. Their conversation covers the relevance of industrial economics, the evolution of UK competition law, the CMA’s enforcement priorities post-Brexit, consumer protection, Big Tech, and much more.

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The Digital Markets, Competition, and Consumers (DMCC) Act, which passed on 23 May 2024, will introduce significant reforms to UK competition and consumer protection law and digital regulation (see our update summarising the main changes). In this post, we’ll take a closer look at the Act’s overhaul of the UK consumer protection regime.

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UK Becomes Fourth Jurisdiction to Introduce Dedicated Digital Platform Regulation, with More Jurisdictions Likely to Follow

On 23 May, the UK Parliament passed the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers (DMCC) Bill.  The new DMCC Act will bring about some of the most significant reforms to competition and consumer protection law in the UK in decades. Among other major reforms, it introduces a dedicated regime that provides for specific conduct rules for large digital platforms. The UK therefore becomes the fourth jurisdiction—after the EU with its Digital Market Act (DMA), Germany with its s.19A rules, and Japan with its new smartphone bill (also passed on 23 May)—to introduce rules that target a handful of the largest digital firms.[1]

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In the latest instalment of Cleary Gottlieb’s Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy is joined by Damien Gerard, Prosecutor General of the Belgian Competition Authority.  Their conversation covers an array of topics, including the agency’s enforcement priorities, enhanced capabilities, and new powers, merger control, sustainability, Big Tech, and much more.

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In the latest installment of Cleary Gottlieb’s Antitrust Review podcast, host Nick Levy welcomes Bill Kovacic, a legend in the world of antitrust. Their conversation covers an array of topics, including Bill’s 50-year career, the consumer welfare standard, the progressive leadership of the U.S. antitrust agencies, regulation of Big Tech, the global antitrust landscape, and much more.

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