Specialty Group: Competition and Antitrust

Author: Dieter Hauck In 2017 Austria and Germany implemented an additional merger threshold to catch cases that fall below existing turnover thresholds but where the consideration for the transaction exceeds €200 ...

Author: Dieter Hauck Section 17 of the Cartel Act seems clear in that a merger requiring notification may be implemented only after clearance, which will be achieved if: the Federal Cartel Authority and the fede ...

Author: Dieter Hauck This update addresses the following key points: The Cartel Act Amendment Law 2017 implemented the EU Cartel Damages Directive (2014/104). The law contains a new consideration threshold – ...

Author: Tom Griffith A number of vocational education providers recently been targeted by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) in light of various unlawful sales tactics deployed by them. In t ...