European competition authorities have started to examine how so-called category management or category captain roles may influence market dynamics and potentially restrict competition. Recent enforcement activity reflects a shift towards investigating and addressing more subtle forms of potential fo...
On 14 October 2025, the European Commission (the “Commission”) issued fines totalling over €157M to the three fashion companies Gucci, Chloé and Loewe for restricting resellers’ pricing independence. The practices involved so-called resale price maintenance (“RPM”), i.e. the companies prevente...
The Council of the European Union (the “EU”) adopted on 23 October 2025 its 19th package of sanctions against Russia. Please find our previous blog posts on the sanctions here, here, here, here and here. Russia’s energy sector – A new ban on import of LNG and further sanctions against the shadow fle...
The European Commission (the “Commission”) has accepted binding commitments from Microsoft to address competition concerns regarding the tying of Teams with its Office 365 and Microsoft 365 productivity suites, following complaints from competitors and a preliminary finding of abuse of dominance. Mi...
On 4 September 2025, the Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice of the European Union (the “ECJ” or the “Court”) delivered its preliminary ruling in Case C-21/24, Nissan Iberia. The case addressed the starting point of limitation periods for private antitrust damages actions based on decisions of nat...
The European Commission (the “Commission”) has broken new ground by imposing fines totalling approximately EUR 172,000 on Eurofield SAS and its parent company Unanime Sport SAS for providing incomplete information during an antitrust investigation. This marks the first time the Commission has exerci...
On 24 July 2025, the European Commission (“Commission”) opened a formal investigation into whether KKR & Co. Inc. (“KKR”) provided incorrect or misleading information during the Commission’s merger investigation of KKR’s acquisition of Telecom Italia SpA’s (“TIM”) fixed-line network business (“N...
Swedish courts have assumed to play a more active role in interpreting and applying the EU State aid rules. This development is marked by the first-ever preliminary references from Swedish courts to the European Court of Justice (the “ECJ”) in two cases during the last year: C-401/24, Stockholms Ham...
On 10 July 2025, the European Commission (the “Commission”) launched a call for evidence and a public consultation seeking input from companies, legal practitioners, economists, national authorities and other stakeholders on proposed reforms to the EU’s competition law enforcement framework. The con...
The Council of the European Union (the “EU”) adopted on 18 July 2025, what is considered one of the most forceful sanctions packages against Russia. The aim is to strike at the core of Russia’s war machine – targeting its energy revenues, financial sector, and military-industrial complex. This blog...
On 2 June 2025, the European Commission (the “Commission”) issued a fining decision of EUR 329 million against online food delivery companies Delivery Hero (owner of Foodora) and Glovo for participating in a multifaceted cartel that included an agreement not to hire each other’s employees (so called...
On 8 May 2025, the European Commission (the “Commission”) launched a public consultation on the review of its EU merger control guidelines which will last at least two years. The consultation consists of two components. The first adopts a broad perspective, asking stakeholders to respond to overarch...