Martin Coleman was appointed panel chair and panel inquiry chair of the Competition and Markets Authority on 19 September 2018 and has been a non-executive director of the board since 1 October 2017. He is also a member of the remuneration committee. Martin Coleman currently also serves as deputy chair of the office for students, the regulator for higher education in England, and a trustee of Police Now, whose mission is to transform communities, reduce crime and increase the public’s confidence in policing. Martin Coleman is a Quondam Fellow of Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge.
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Introduction On 15 July, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published its final guidance and policy statement in relation to its approach to enforcement of competition law. The FCA has softened its stance in some respects, following criticism of its proposed approach in a public (...)
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This article has been nominated for the 2015 Antitrust Writing Awards. Click here to learn more about the Antitrust Writing Awards. Introduction The European Commission has recently announced its adoption of a revised Technology Transfer Block Exemption Regulation and new accompanying (...)
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1. Introduction The last special issue on collective dominance, by Nicolas Petit and Norman Neyrinck in October 2011, focussed mainly on the requirement of dominance. The authors provided a comprehensive overview of the application of EU law to the concept of collective dominance in merger (...)
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The proposed acquisition by the Netherlands company Akzo Nobel of shares in an Italian competitor, Metlac, taking Akzo’s interest in Metlac from a pre-existing 49 per cent to full 100 per cent ownership, was notified to nine competition authorities across the world under their merger control (...)
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Given burgeoning competition law regimes in Africa, international and local African lenders, as well as retailers extending credit, will have to reconsider their approach to offering credit life insurance with their loans in many African jurisdictions. This is evident from recent judgments by (...)
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In South Africa, the Supreme Court of Appeal has for the first time recognised in principle the availability of class actions to enforce damages claims resulting from practices prohibited under South Africa’s competition act. The judgment represents a fundamental change, because previously South (...)
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It has been held that when the French Competition Authority issues “opinions”, these are not challengeable before the courts in the same way as the authority’s formal decisions. On 11 October 2012, France’s Administrative Supreme Court rejected two appeals brought by supermarket chains against (...)
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In June this year, Ryanair, the Irish low-cost airline, launched a full takeover bid for Aer Lingus, the airline which has been the country’s national flag carrier. The European Commission is now examining the potential competition effects of that proposed takeover in a full “second-phase” (...)
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This article has been nominated for the 2013 Antitrust Writing Awards. Click here to learn more about the Antitrust Writing Awards. “Crisis cartels” - Can an economic downturn ever excuse anti-competitive practices? Insights from a European Commission statement to Ireland’s High Court, April (...)
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