Tom advises clients on a wide variety of competition law issues including multi-jurisdictional and EU/UK merger control, patent and know-how licensing, distribution networks, JVs and other forms of competitor collaboration, compliance programmes, and the defence of clients involved in cartel investigations, including to appeal stage before the European Courts in Luxembourg. Tom also advises on UK/EU trade controls (focusing on export controls and sanctions).
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On 9 April 2020, China’s State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) fined three domestic pharmaceutical companies Shandong Kanghui Medicine Company Limited ("Kanghui"), Weifang Puyunhui Pharmaceutical Company Limited ("Puyunhui") and Weifang Taiyangshen Company Limited Pharmaceutical (...)
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This article has been nominated for the 2020 Antitrust Writing Awards. Click here to learn more about the Antitrust Writing Awards. Since September 2018, the State Administration for Market Regulation ("SAMR"), the consolidated Chinese competition authority, has strengthened its enforcement (...)
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That incompatibility between devices might harm competition has been a feature of antitrust investigations since the dawn of the IT industry (Decca Navigator, IBM undertaking, UNIX Group). It has fuelled many EU policy choices, as diverse as the Software Directive interoperability exception, (...)
2013 Competition Case Law Digest - A Synthesis of EU and National Leading Cases
