Whilst the acquisition of Activision Blizzard by Microsoft is yet to be notified to the European Commission, once notified it will certainly require a substantial competition law assessment. This article discusses the Commission’s decisional practice relating to market definition in gaming...

The EU political landscape has evolved significantly over the last months, notably based on a renewed perception of external challenges facing the Union. This has triggered an intensified and refocused policy and legislative production, in particular on strategic topics and industrial policy....

Common ownership fundamentally upsets the well-settled merger enforcement ecosystem. Not only it challenges basic principles informing merger policy such as the presumed profitability of mergers for the merging firms and the merger-specificity of potential efficiencies but also it works against...

The literature identifies a significant drop in merger control enforcement activity on both sides of the Atlantic during the last decade. Furthermore, this drop in enforcement activity is convincingly connected to enforcement problems on the sides of the competition agencies. This paper goes...

In both antitrust and merger cases, remedies serve the same purpose, namely, to stop the infringement of competition and restore competition. However, the practice of remedy policy in these two areas is varied, e.g., structural remedies are preferred in merger cases but strictly limited in...

On the first of August of 2008, the Chinese Antimonopoly Law (hereinafter AML) entered into force. Great expectations were created regarding the impact of the new provisions on business operations in China and international transactions of companies active in the Chinese market. The AML set up,...