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ESG Update: Congress Questions Whether ESG-Related Coalitions Violate Antitrust Laws

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Republican lawmakers are continuing their antitrust push against environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investor initiatives by investigating a prominent climate coalition that is focused on getting companies to curb...more

K&L Gates LLP

Brussels Regulatory Brief: March 2024

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Antitrust and Competition - The European Commission Fines Apple EUR 1.8 billion for Abusing Its Dominant Position in the Music Streaming Sector - On 4 March 2024, the European Commission (Commission) fined Apple EUR 1.8...more

Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP

A New Era for Canadian Competition Law: Landmark Proposed Changes to the Competition Act Announced

The government announced significant additional amendments to Canada’s Competition Act in late November 2023, building on those already under consideration by Parliament in Bill C-56 and others enacted in 2022. More...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Antitrust and Sustainability: EU, UK and US Take Divergent Enforcement Approaches

On October 12, 2023, the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) issued its final Green Agreements Guidance (Guidance). The Guidance is designed to help businesses seeking to collaborate on environmental sustainability...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

The Informed Board - Summer 2023

Short sellers make their money by publishing information that attacks a company in order to drive down its share price. How can a company prepare? And what should it not do in the face of a short attack? We offer some tips in...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Antitrust Enforcement Mid-Year 2023 Review

The year 2023 is proving to be a milestone year for antitrust enforcement.  Less so for novel cases and investigations and more so for the generational changes being proposed by the enforcement authorities for merger...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

New EU Competitors Cooperation Framework: Stricter on Information Exchange, Broader on Joint Sustainability Agreements

On June 1, 2023, the European Commission (EC) adopted a revised legal framework that block-exempts research and development (R&D) and specialisation agreements between competitors from the prohibition of anticompetitive...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Republican AGs Target 53 Large Asset Managers' ESG Practices

On March 30, 2023, 21 Republican Attorneys General (AGs) wrote a letter addressed to over 50 U.S. asset managers citing “concerns about the ongoing agreements between asset managers to use Americans’ savings to push political...more

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Georgia Results Flip the Senate and Will Lead to More Congressional Investigations

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With the majority in both the U.S. House and Senate, Democrats are poised to chair powerful investigative committees in the 117th Congress - With the victories of Raphael Warnock over incumbent Kelly Loeffler, and Jon...more

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