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Turf Battle for Jurisdiction: Feasibility of the Exclusive Domain Model for Market Regulators
[Sushant and Vanshaj are students at Dr Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University, Lucknow.] With the Monsanto Holdings judgement, the...
Sushant Kumar, Vanshaj Dhiman
Nov 8, 20205 min read
Data Accumulation by Big Tech: Is the Indian Competition Regime Ready?
[Lavanya and Aaditya are students at Symbiosis Law School, Pune.] Earlier this year, the CEOs of Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon...
Lavanya Gupta, Aaditya Mishra
Oct 29, 20205 min read
Res Judicata in CCI: Grounds for Non-Applicability
[Swetank and Anand are students at Symbiosis Law School, Noida.] Under the Roman law, a defendant could successfully contest a suit filed...
Swetank Neelabh, Anand Kamal
Oct 14, 20206 min read
Amazon’s Antitrust Practices Involving Third-Party Seller Data Re-Emerge?
[Urshila and Sanah are students at School of Law, Christ University.] Amazon has been the subject of multiple antitrust investigations...
Urshila Pandit, Sanah Javed
Oct 12, 20206 min read
Samir Agrawal v. CCI: NCLAT's Misstep in Interpreting Locus Standi of Whistle-blower Informants
[Parash is a student at Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law.] The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) in its recent...
Parash Biswal
Sep 13, 20206 min read
Buyers’ Cartels in India: An Antitrust Oversight?
[Saurabh is a student at National Law School of India University, Bangalore.] The Competition (Amendment) Bill 2020 (Bill) expands the...
Saurabh Gupta
Sep 4, 20206 min read
Implications of CCI’s Proposal to Dispense with Assessment of Non-Compete Restrictions under Merger
[Niti is a Research Associate at the Competition Commission of India.] Since merger and acquisition (M&A) transactions largely entail...
Niti Richhariya
Aug 17, 20205 min read
Sandeep Mishra v/s NHAI: A Case of CCI's Prejudice
[Yagya is a student at Institute of Law, Nirma University.] Public procurement is a principal economic activity of the government which...
Yagya Sharma
Aug 10, 20206 min read
Does Section 3(1) of the Competition Act 2002 Have a Standalone Applicability?
[Srishti is a student at National Law University, Jodhpur.] The draft Competition Law Amendment Bill 2020 (Bill) was released recently....
Srishti Rai Chhabra
Aug 6, 20206 min read
Green Channel Approval for IBC-driven Acquisitions?
[Jai is a student at Maharashtra National Law University, Mumbai.] The time bound resolution of distressed corporate entities is perhaps...
Jai Sanyal
Jul 11, 20206 min read
Maintaining Competition: The Failing Firm Defense in Indian M&A Transactions
[Shivek is a student at Amity Law School, Delhi.] The disastrous impact of the COVID-19 on domestic businesses is widely documented. In...
Shivek Endlaw
Jul 3, 20206 min read
Monsanto Judgment: A Step Towards Resolving a Jurisdictional Conundrum
[Yagya and Paridhi are students at Institute of Law, Nirma University, Ahmedabad.] On 20 May 2020, a single-judge bench of the Delhi High...
Yagya Sharma, Paridhi Rastogi
Jun 18, 20207 min read
Competition (Amendment) Bill 2020: A Failure to Address Effects-Based Approach to Abuse of Dominance
[Prerna Raturi is a student at Symbiosis Law School, Pune.] On 12 February 2020, the Union Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) introduced...
Prerna Raturi
May 24, 20207 min read
Most Favored Nation Clauses: What is the Way Ahead?
[Kritika Dobhal is a student at National Law University, Jodhpur.] Recently, on an information filed by Treebo Hotels, the Competition...
Kritika Dobhal
May 6, 20206 min read
The Defence of Objective Justification in Competition Law: Is the Defence is Really “Objective”?
[Yash Bhatt is a student at Government Law College, Mumbai.] The defence of objective justification in competition law exempts liability...
Yash Bhatt
Apr 22, 20207 min read
CCI’s Horizontal Breakthrough in OEM Market: Leniency Granted to Japanese Companies
[Ashu Bhargav is a student at Law Centre - I, Faculty of Law, University of Delhi.] The Competition Commission of India (CCI), in an...
Ashu Bhargav
Jan 28, 20206 min read
Interlocking Directorate and its Relevance to Competition in India
[Aditya Mukherjee and Arihant Agarwal are students at Jindal Global Law School.] The concept of interlocking directorate revolves around...
Aditya Mukherjee, Arihant Agarwal
Jan 22, 20206 min read
CCI Publishes Final E-Commerce Sector Report
The Competition Commission of India (CCI), on 8 January 2020, released a market study on e-commerce (Study) in India to fill a much need...
IRCCL Blog
Jan 17, 20203 min read
CCI Orders Investigation against Online Hotel Booking Service Providers - OYO, MakeMyTrip
[Prerna Kapur is a student at National Law University, Odisha.] On 28 October 2019, the Competition Commission of India (CCI) ordered the...
Prerna Kapur
Dec 15, 20197 min read
Competition Law and Judicial Review: Has Bombay High Court Ousted CCI's Jurisdiction in Telecom
[Soham Goswami is an Editor at IRCCL.] The Bombay High Court has quashed a Competition Commission of India (CCI) investigation against...
Soham Goswami
Nov 22, 20195 min read
Seventh Set of Amendments to Combination Regulations: CCI Makes Sweeping Changes to the Framework
[Saumya Raizada is an Editor at IRCCL.] The Competition Commission of India (CCI) on 13 August 2019 notified the seventh set of...
Saumya Raizada
Aug 15, 20195 min read
Big Trouble for the Big Tech: EU investigates Amazon
[Saumya Raizada and Shreetama Ghosh are Editors at IRCCL.] In 2015, Forbes reported that, by the year 2020, about 1.7 megabytes of new...
Saumya Raizada, Shreetama Ghosh
Jul 25, 20194 min read
Update: EC Blocks Joint Venture between Tata Steel and Thyssenkrupp
[The following update has been brought to you by our Editor, Saumya Raizada.] The European Commission (EC) in a press release dated 11...
Saumya Raizada
Jul 2, 20192 min read
Regulating Big Data Competition
[Karan Shelke is a student at Maharashtra National Law University, Mumbai.] Several years ago, The Economist noted that data generated...
Karan Shelke
Sep 7, 20185 min read
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