As EU Antitrust Enforcement Intensifies, Data Challenges Dominate

In the sphere of antitrust regulation, there’s near unanimous agreement that recent escalation in enforcement activity is only the beginning of what will become a groundswell of regulatory investigations and interventions. Under the European Commission’s jurisdiction, the rate of prohibition decisions in merger clearance has increased, the number of deals subject to remedies has grown and the power of national competition authorities has expanded. Likewise in other areas of competition enforcement, authorities are highly focused on pursuing cartels and abuse of dominance, with a recent surge of judgements and newly opened cases.

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