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Patent settlement agreements between originator pharmaceutical companies and generics manufacturers are a risky business. Originator medicine company Servier and five generic companies rolled the dice and the ECJ largely confirmed their antitrust fines.

The Belgian Competition Authority has applied the Towercast case law in a first case in Belgium. It could possibly try do so again for certain hospital mergers that the legislator has recently exempted from merger filing in Belgium.

Tom Verdonk has co-edited the book ‘Unfair Trading Practices in the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain’, recently published by Larcier-Intersentia.

De maand december is traditiegetrouw een maand van terugblikken en vooruitkijken. Een beslissing van de Raad van Discipline (van 30 oktober 2023, ECLI:NL:TADRAMS:2023:203) is Monique van der Linden bijgebleven.

Unfair trading conditions and tying are gaining traction as alleged abusive practices in the digital industry, as the European Commission fines Meta EUR 797.72 million for hindering competitors of Facebook Marketplace.

In het publiek debat worden bestuurders in toenemende mate aangesproken op hun verantwoordelijkheid voor de ESG-compliance van het bedrijf. Ook juridisch: denk aan strafrechtelijke aangiften en onderzoeken met expliciete aandacht voor bestuurders.

The European Commission will review a transaction thanks to Italy’s call-in powers. Even though the broad interpretation of Article 22 EUMR is off the table, deals that do not meet standard EU and national merger thresholds may still need to be notified.