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Roos Elemans, Stijn de Jong and Kaj Privé contributed to Getting the Deal Through – Cartel Regulation 2022. In their publication, they discuss important issues that apply to cartel regulation in the Netherlands.

Intel’s second round at the General Court was significantly more successful than its first. In the first round, the General Court had failed to analyse whether the loyalty rebates at issue were capable of restricting competition. In the second round, afte

A Belgian enterprise Court decided that the Belgian Billiard Association is an undertaking for competition law purposes to the extent that it organises billiard tournaments.

By decision of 7 January 2022, the Belgian Competition Authority approved the merger between the Port of Antwerp and the Port of Zeebrugge. This merger deals with two important ports in Europe, in particular in the Hamburg – Le Havre range.

The General Court annulled the Commission’s EUR 1 billion fine imposed on Qualcomm for abuse of dominance on the LTE chipsets market.

The new Vertical Block Exemption Regulation (VBER) entered into force on 1 June 2022. The new VBER is stricter on dual distribution and across-platform retail parity obligations than the old one, but is more lenient towards active sales and online sales r

Companies involved in M&A transactions had better think twice before temporarily parking a target undertaking with an interim buyer.

On 12 May 2022, Advocate General (AG) Emiliou delivered his Opinion proposing that the European Court of Justice (ECJ) dismiss HSBC’s appeal.

Companies beware: new Dutch and EU transactional hurdles are coming closer. In the Netherlands, new national security investment screening rules are imminent.

The CJEU validates the new liability regime for large online platforms organised by article 17 of the directive 2019/790 on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market.

In de nieuwe podcastaflevering van Stibbe Legal Insights spreken Femke van der Voort, gespecialiseerd in intellectueel eigendom, en Paul van der Hulst, mede-eigenaar en managing director van MoviĜo, over het beschermen van intellectuele eigendomsrechten.

Big Tech faces challenges when denying third parties access to its open platforms. The European Court of Justice has ruled that a dominant company’s refusal to make its open platform compatible with a third-party app may be abusive.