Tim Cowen, Chair, Antitrust Practice, provides an explanation of the key findings made by the CMA in its Final Report in the Online platforms and Digital Advertising Market Study. The long-anticipated Final Report makes a number of key findings which are likely to shake up the digital space, including a call for ex ante regulation…
The CMA published its Final Report in its Online Platforms and Digital Advertising market study last week. We are delighted to announce that Tim Cowen, Chair, Antitrust Practice, will be participating in a panel discussing the report hosted by 51 Degrees. The webinar discussion will focus on the impact of the report for businesses, and…
The UK government has introduced legislation to parliament which will provide further powers to intervene in transactions which may affect the UK’s ability to respond to any public health emergency. The powers mean that maintaining the UK’s ability to address public health emergencies has become the fourth public interest ground which would allow intervention in…
Preiskel & Co Chair, Antitrust Division, Tim Cowen, will chair an upcoming Digital Policy Alliance webinar entitled “Competition Remedies or Digital Regulation? Review of CMA investigation of online advertising markets and the latest initiatives”. The webinar will address the likely impact and consequences of proposed initiatives to tackle market imbalance in the digital space. Speakers…
Germany’s Federal Court of Justice, the country’s highest civil court, has overruled a court decision suspending an antitrust authority order which focused on Facebook’s collection and use of data. The court found that there were “neither serious doubts about Facebook’s dominant position on the German market for social networks, nor that Facebook is abusing the…
As reported in Deadline, The Hollywood Reporter and Screen Daily, Neil Marshall’s Plague horror “The Reckoning” (IMDB link) will both world premiere and open this year’s Fantasia International Film Festival, described as perhaps “most outstanding and largest genre film festival in North America“. As has unavoidably been the case for many other recent festivals, this year’s edition of…
As reported in The Guardian, Preiskel & Co client, FilmChain, is at the cutting edge of the developments in the area of revenue collection in the film and television industries by the application of Blockchain technology to conventional collection agency practice. It’s apparently even more useful in a lockdown world because it is so accessible.…
As reported in Variety, Deadline and Screen Daily, Pierce Brosnan will star in the leading role in tech thriller “Youth” produced by Jib Polhemus, Paul Schiff and Martin Brennan alongside executive producers Laura Bickford and Preiskel & Co’s Hannah Leader, which is due to be advertised to buyers at the Cannes (virtual) market later this…
We are delighted to announce that Tim Cowen, Chair, Antitrust Practice, will be speaking at a webinar hosted by Promoting Economic Pluralism on 17 June 2020. The topic of discussion will be “The Digital Economy: A Covid Winner but for whom?” Tim will be joined by Ariel Ezrachi and Miriam Brett. It promises to be…
In 2016, following a merger inquiry, the European Commission blocked a proposed merger between o2 and Three UK, largely due to the impact the merger would have in the UK mobile market, by reducing the number of Mobile Network Operators in the UK from four to three, leading to increased prices and worse quality of…
