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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
Understanding Buyer Cartels from an Antitrust Perspective
Most antitrust frameworks around the world have traditionally given significant attention to seller cartels and their anti-competitive...
IRCCL Blog
Jun 22, 20183 min read
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