Tim Cowen will be speaking at the Big Data & Competition Law event on 15 October 2019 in Brussels.
Please see Tim’s speaker profile here.
If you would like to attend, please click here for a 20% discount to your ticket price.
The European Commission has announced a formal investigation into Broadcom, a US chipmaker, regarding alleged abuse of a dominant position in the markets for modem and television chipsets. In doing so, the European Commission has indicated that it intends to impose interim measures to restrain any exclusionary practices the chipmaker may be engaging in. This…
The UK Competition and Markets Authority (“CMA”) has opened an investigation into the proposed private equity consortium takeover of Inmarsat. Inmarsat is the UK headquartered leading global mobile satellite communications provider of connectivity to ships, aircraft, and generally to locations not covered by traditional mobile networks. Moreover, it is reported that the CMA has also…
The European Commission has fined US chipmaker Qualcomm €242 million for abuse of market dominance in 3G baseband chipsets. The chipsets are a key component which enable smartphones and computer tablets to connect to the internet via 3G. The European Commission has found that company engaged in predatory pricing, “with the intention of eliminating a…
The European Commission has today announced the opening of a formal antitrust investigation against tech giant Amazon. The investigation is to assess whether Amazon’s use of sensitive data from independent retailers selling on its marketplace breaches EU Competition Law. With the European Commission having issued record-breaking fines in recent years against Google for illegal leveraging…
Preiskel & Co is delighted to announce that Partner Tim Cowen has published a Radix report entitled Freedom to Choose – Why Competition Policy affects us all.
A fascinating report, Freedom to Choose outlines the manner in which Competition Policy affects the lives of each and every one of us.
The full report is available here.
Preiskel & Co Partner Tim Cowen’s 2014 article questions whether the process of merger control is adequate to consider wider public interest issues. Last year the UK parliament introduced new threshold tests for merger control where the businesses concerned are involved in the provision of critical national infrastructure. With further reform in this area expected,…
Preiskel & Co Partner, Tim Cowen, has been interviewed by Will Hutton as part of the radio 4 programme “Goliath: How Monopolies Came to Be”, discussing Technopoly, a paper Tim co-authored. .
The programme can be listened to here.
Please contact Tim Cowen if you have any questions regarding the programme.
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…
