This series of ESG-focused thought leadership webinars will share insights and practical guidance for businesses considering what ESG means for them. Set out are details of our forthcoming demystifying ESG webinar series for 2022 including: regulations, executive pay, climate change, strategic initiatives and corporate responsibility.

Off the Shelf, the Global Consumer Goods & Retail Industry Podcast, provides short practical legal insights into the key issues affecting consumer goods and retail (CG&R) businesses. Episode 16: New Brand on the Block(chain): Consortium Considerations In the final episode of our blockchain for brands series, Alyssa Auberger, Baker McKenzie’s Chief…

As European competition authorities and international organizations like the OECD and ICN look to advance the debate on sustainability and antitrust, Baker McKenzie’s global antitrust knowledge lawyer Grant Murray and partner Georgina Foster explore the approach of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission and ask if it can provide a…

In our latest episodes of Off the Shelf, our Global Consumer Goods and Retail (CG&R) Industry Podcast, we discuss the relationship between sustainability and competition law, as well as the importance and challenges of competitor collaboration to address common sustainability issues in the CG&R industry.

Eturas runs the e-commerce back-end of 30 travel agents in Lithuania. An administrator message to each member informed them that the e-commerce functionality allowing each travel agent to grant discounts would be capped at 3 per cent. That message appeared in part of the system relating to information messages. The Court of Justice found that administrator messages could be the basis of illegal cartel type conduct.

In VM Remonts, the EU Court of Justice ruled for the first time on whether a company can be liable for competition law infringements that resulted from the actions of a third party service provider that was not an agent of the company and was taking initiatives that clearly exceeded the tasks assigned to it.

The EU’s highest Court confirms that automated messages can put recipients on the hook for a price-fixing cartel.

The economic literature explains that most markets tend towards oligopoly over the longer term. This does not necessarily imply that competition is impaired.

The EU’s Court of Justice has ruled that a clause in a property lease, between a mall owner and a supermarket “anchor tenant”, which gives that tenant the ‘right to approve’ the granting of leases to competing stores is not anti-competitive ‘by object’.

The Sixth Annual Chicago Forum on International Antitrust Issues took place at Northwestern Law School over two days. Here are 13 thoughts on some of the most noteworthy aspects: 1. One of the benefits of increased international co-ordination in cartel enforcement is lower costs to targets of the investigation. Given…