Preiskel & Co is pleased to announce that the UK Chapter of Getting the Deal Through’s Foreign Direct Investment series 2019, to which Partner Tim Cowen, Associate Maddi Gaunt, and Trainee Solicitor Claire Barraclough contributed. This chapter offers the definitive guide to non-economic regulatory controls on mergers in the UK, and is a must-read for…
Music streaming service, Spotify, has filed a complaint against Apple with the European Commission, alleging unfair practices in relation to Apple’s App Store. Spotify appears to be arguing that Apple has been using its power over the App Store to give their own products, such as Apple Music, an unfair advantage against competitors, thus harming…
The European Commission finally announced its decision in the Google AdSense investigation on Wednesday 20 March 2019. The Commission found that Google’s Adsense for Search product had a market share of over 70% in the EEA market for online search advertising mediation platforms, thus having a dominant position in that market. The Commission found that…
Preiskel & Co Partner, Tim Cowen, will today chair a session at Infrastructure Investor’s Digital Infrastructure Forum. The session Tim will moderate will focus on how policymakers and regulators are driving investment in the digital economy. In particular, this will focus on the following issues: legislating to address broadband speeds encouraging competition in these markets…
Lord Tyrie, the Chair of the Competition and Markets Authority (“CMA”) has published his preliminary advice on reform to the UK competition law regime. On 21 February 2019, his outline for reforms was published on the CMA website. The proposals are apparently aimed at ensuring the legal framework is robust enough to protect consumers and…
On 23 January 2019, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) released a Guide on social media endorsements made by popular social media users, known in the industry as influencers. The Guide requires that influencers make it clear when they have been paid, given or loaned things which are then featured in their Instagram, Snapchat or…
Danny Preiskel and Stephan Buck have had published by LexisNexis an article on the European Electronic Communications Code, following the adoption of the EU Directive in December 2018 to modernise the regulation of telecoms in Europe. A fascinating read, the article provides insight into how the new European Electronic Communications Code will shape the communications…
Preiskel & Co Consultant, Philip Goldenberg, has written an article in the Independent, considering whether the “Humble Address”, an obscure Parliamentary mechanism under which MPs can make their desires known directly to the Queen, could offer the House of Commons an escape from Brexit.
A fascinating read, the article can be found here.
The nature of (video game) software has been disputed from the very beginning. Whilst software’s binary code cannot be perceived by the naked eye, this note will show that it still has physical properties of mass and volume. In this blog, Senior Associate Stephan Buck considers the law – and the science – behind the…
Tim Cowen will be speaking at the Digital Policy Alliance’s round table on “How is Artificial Intelligence affecting Competition and Markets?” on Monday 3 December 2018, 2-4pm. The meeting will be chaired by Lord Clement-Jones CBE, who is the Chair of the House of Lords Artifical Intelligence Select Committee and Co-Chair of the All Party…
