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23 August 2019

Modernizing The Law On Abuse Of Market Power For The Digital Economy

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A&O Shearman

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A&O Shearman was formed in 2024 via the merger of two historic firms, Allen & Overy and Shearman & Sterling. With nearly 4,000 lawyers globally, we are equally fluent in English law, U.S. law and the laws of the world’s most dynamic markets. This combination creates a new kind of law firm, one built to achieve unparalleled outcomes for our clients on their most complex, multijurisdictional matters – everywhere in the world. A firm that advises at the forefront of the forces changing the current of global business and that is unrivalled in its global strength. Our clients benefit from the collective experience of teams who work with many of the world’s most influential companies and institutions, and have a history of precedent-setting innovations. Together our lawyers advise more than a third of NYSE-listed businesses, a fifth of the NASDAQ and a notable proportion of the London Stock Exchange, the Euronext, Euronext Paris and the Tokyo and Hong Kong Stock Exchanges.
In recent years, Germany, like other European Union Member States, has seen various initiatives to address challenges to competition law by the digital economy. The Bundeskartellamt (BKartA)
Germany Antitrust/Competition Law

In recent years, Germany, like other European Union Member States, has seen various initiatives to address challenges to competition law by the digital economy. The Bundeskartellamt (BKartA) conducted administrative procedures against online hotel portals and against Facebook. In 2017, a number of amendments to the German Act against Restraints of Competition (GWB) came into force. Further amendments can be expected. In 2018, an expert report on “Modernizing the law on abuse of market power” for the German Ministry for Economic Affairs was submitted. The article briefly summarizes the main recommendations of the export report for legislative action.

Read this chapter in Shearman & Sterling’s 2019 Antitrust Annual Report, “Germany: Modernizing the Law on Abuse of Market Power for the Digital Economy.”

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