Daniel Muheme is an associate in the Antitrust and EU Competition team in Brussels and advises clients on all aspects of EU and Belgian competition law in a wide variety of sectors. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Muheme worked as an associate lawyer and also gained experience as a research and teaching assistant in European and Belgian competition law at the University of Liège (Liege Competition and Innovation Institute – LCII). Mr. Muheme recently obtained an LL.M. in Global Antitrust & Economics from George Mason University in Washington DC and did an internship at the Office of International Affairs of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.
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Introduction In its preliminary ruling of 14 January 2021, the Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) clarified that the duration of an infringement in the case of bid rigging ends once the essential characteristics of the public tender are determined – which in practice likely (...)
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On 25 May 2020, the European Commission (“Commission”) has published its Final Report of the support studies for the evaluation of its Vertical Block Exemption Regulation (“VBER”) and the accompanying Guidelines on Vertical Restraints (the “Final Report”). The Final Report was published (...)
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I. The Parties AC Treuhand AG, the applicant, is a consultancy firm which is based in Zurich (Switzerland) and provides a range of international focused services, like business management and administration, assessment of market data, presentation of market statistics, etc. The European (...)
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I. The Parties Post Danmark S/A is a Danish undertaking that provides postal services in Denmark. The undertaking provides postal services and applies uniform tariffs throughout Danish national territory. At the time of the main proceedings, in 2007 and 2008, Post Danmark was controlled by (...)
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I. Parties InnoLux Corp. (“InnoLux”), the applicant, is the surviving legal entity pursuant to a merger agreement between Chi Mei Optoelectronics Corp. (“CMO”), InnoLux Display Corp. and TPO Displays Corp in 2010. InnoLux is active in the worldwide market for liquid crystal display panels (...)
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I. The Parties The four involved parties are four of the main actors on the global airline market: (i) Société Air France (hereafter “Air France”); (ii) Alitalia Società Aerea Italia SpA (hereafter “Alitalia); (iii) Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij (hereafter “KLM”) and; (iv) (...)
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I. The Parties Lampiris SA is a Belgian company which main activity consists in the supply of electricity and natural gas. EDF Luminus SA is a company which activity consist in the production of electricity, its gross commerce, and the supplyi of electricity and natural gas. The company is (...)
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The Court of Justice of the European Union (“Court of Justice”) sets aside the judgment of the General Court of the European Union (General Court) by which it confirmed the European Commission’s (“Commission”) decision finding an anticompetitive practice in the Groupement des cartes bancaires (...)
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I. The Parties Anonima Petroli Italiana SpA: An Italian undertaking active in the refining, processing and distributing services for crude oil and petroleum products in Europe. Ministero delle Infrastrutture e dei Trasporti and Ministero dello Sviluppo Economico: The Italian Ministry for (...)
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I. The Parties Electrabel S.A. (‘Electrabel’) is the incumbent operator on the Belgian electricity market. Electrabel is the main producer of electricity. It is also active on the delivery market to end-consumers in Belgium. Elia is Belgium’s transmission system operator. It enjoys a legal (...)
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I. The Parties RWE AG is part of the RWE group with its main activities in the energy supply sector (gas exploration, electricity production, trading, and retail and grid activities). Regarding the activities in the paraffin waxes, RWE group is not currently active on this market due to the (...)
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I. The Facts Historical background Cyclocity The college of Aldermen of the City of Brussels awarded a public contract, after a call for tenders, to JC Decaux Street Furniture (“JCD”) concerning the manufacture, supply, placement, activation and the maintenance of self-service movables, (...)
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I. The Facts In the 1990s Great Britain was affected by the outbreak of BSE (“bovine spongiform encephalopatie"), causing the European Union to take immediate action. Member States were obliged to comply with the imposed obligations by the European Union and to carry out tests urgently. The (...)
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I. The Parties Belgacom S.A. is the incumbent operator on the Belgian telecom market and former historical operator. In 2005, Tele2 was a 100% subsidiary of a Swedish company. In the meantime, this company was sold to KPN, a Dutch company, in 2007. II. The Facts Access to the (...)
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Douglas H. Ginsburg Liber Amicorum : An Antitrust Professor on the Bench Vol. II
