A Reform to Strengthen Competition - After publication on 6 November 2023, the long awaited latest reform of German competition law has finally entered into force. Germany’s Vice Chancellor and Federal Minister for Economic...more
In October, the German Federal Cartel Office (Bundeskartellamt, "FCO”) published new guidelines on its leniency program and on the setting of fines in cartel proceedings. The guidelines substantiate the changes in the law...more
The German Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof (BGH)) has recently published on 6 August 2021 the reasoning for its judgment of 18 May 2021 on best-price clauses, which overturned the previous decision of the...more