Bianca Buzatu is an associate in the antitrust team at Cleary Gottlieb, London, United Kingdom. She has experience advising on a range of competition and regulatory matters including merger control, antitrust, and EU and UK digital markets regulation. Bianca Buzatu joined Cleary in 2019 as a trainee and qualified into the competition team in 2021, having completed a secondment in the firm’s Brussels office. Prior to joining Cleary Gottlieb, she obtained a masters in Law and Finance from the University of Oxford.
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The Digital Markets Act (DMA) is a landmark piece of legislation granting unprecedented powers to the European Commission to regulate large digital platforms. The DMA targets platforms that operate as gatekeepers between businesses and users, hold an “entrenched and durable position,” and (...)
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On July 18, the European Council approved the final text of the DMA, marking the final step before the DMA enters into force. This followed the European Parliament approving, on July 5, the final text of the Digital Markets Act (DMA), by 588 votes to 11. The DMA is likely to enter the EU’s (...)
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In a significant judgment rendered on July 13, 2022 (“Judgment”), the EU’s General Court validated the position taken by the European Commission (“EC”) in a March 2021 Guidance Paper encouraging national competition authorities (“NCAs”) to use Article 22 of the EU Merger Regulation (“EUMR”) to (...)
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On July 5, 2022, the European Parliament approved the final text of the Digital Markets Act (DMA), by 588 votes to 11, marking the penultimate step before the DMA enters into force. The DMA now needs to be ratified by EU ministers, who will vote on July 18. The DMA is likely to enter the EU’s (...)
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Background The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) and telecoms regulator (Ofcom) recently published a joint paper setting out their advice to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) on new rules for digital platforms’ use of publishers’ content. The DCMS asked the CMA and (...)
