Nina Frie is a professional support competition lawyer at White & Case LLP, based in Brussels. She is responsible for the implementation and development of a knowledge strategy for the White & Case EMEA Competition practice. Prior to joining White & Case, Nina worked as a practitioner for two other leading international law firms in Brussels and London. Nina holds a Postgraduate Diploma in EU Competition Law from Kings College and LLM in International Economic Law from University of Kent.
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The adopted FSR Implementing Regulation contains important changes compared to the draft published in February 2023. The focus of the FSR filings for M&A deals and public tenders in the EU will be on companies’ foreign financial contributions ("FFCs") received from non-EU countries (or (...)
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The EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation took effect on 12 July 2023 to much fanfare. We take a look at the top five things PE funds need to know when considering acquisitions with a European footprint. The Foreign Subsidies Regulation ("FSR") is the European Commission’s attempt to level the (...)
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The fact that the European Commission (EC) classified resale price maintenance as a hardcore restriction under its Vertical Block Exemption Regulation does not mean that it automatically violates EU competition law as a "by object"restriction pursuant to Article 101(1) TFEU. To that end, (...)
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The long-awaited European Court of Justice’s judgment in Towercast confirmed that national competition authorities (and national courts) can apply abuse of dominance rules to mergers that did not trigger EU and national merger control thresholds, and were not referred to the European (...)
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In two separate non-binding opinions in Super League and International Skating Union issued on 15 December 2022, Advocate General Rantos concluded that sports federations can – under certain circumstances – impose pre-authorisation requirements on third party events without violating EU (...)
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Advocate General Juliane Kokott has proposed that the EU Court of Justice should find that competition authorities have the power to apply Article 102 TFEU to corporate transactions that are not reportable, and test under that provision whether the transaction as such constitutes an abuse of a (...)
