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Getting Down To Business? CMA Opens Investigation Into Microsoft’s Business Software Ecosystem
The UK's Competition and Markets Authority has launched a strategic market status investigation into Microsoft's business software ecosystem, examining whether the tech giant holds substantial and entrenched market power across its productivity suite, operating systems, and security tools. The investigation will scrutinize Microsoft's commercial practices, technical design choices, and potential leveraging of market dominance into adjacent markets like cloud services, with the possibility of imposing bespok
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Macfarlanes LLP
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Competition Law Update - June 2026
This newsletter examines significant competition law developments across the UK and EU, including the European Commission's draft Merger Assessment Guidelines that modernize analytical frameworks and give greater weight to merger efficiencies. The edition also explores landmark rulings on no-poach agreements in sports, updates to technology transfer regulations, and the CMA's evolving approach to digital markets enforcement and consumer protection.
United Kingdom Anti-trust
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Macfarlanes LLP
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Consumer Law: £4.2m Fine On AA Shows CMA Means Business
The Competition and Markets Authority has issued its first infringement decision under the UK's new consumer enforcement regime, fining the AA £4.2 million for misleading pricing practices and requiring substantial consumer refunds. This landmark case signals a fundamental shift in UK consumer protection enforcement, with businesses now facing significantly tougher penalties including fines up to 10% of turnover and mandatory consumer redress schemes.
United Kingdom Anti-trust
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Travers Smith LLP
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Q1 2026 Transport M&A Review: Deal Activity Inflects Upward As Strategic Buyers Consolidate A Still Oversupplied Freight Market
Freight transport M&A showed signs of recovery in Q1 2026, with deal volume rising approximately 5% and capital concentrating in larger strategic transactions. North American activity surged back to pre-Liberation Day levels, while geopolitical risks and structural oversupply continued to reshape buyer strategies and underwriting models across the sector.
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AlixPartners
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Private Equity In Sports – What Is Prompting The Boom In Investment?
Over the past two decades, the value of sports franchises and related assets has skyrocketed, with rapid revenue growth across various commercial streams including the more traditional broadcasting and sponsorship (both now of course more global than ever), to new commercial tie ups and off field year round monetisation of stadia. While the skyrocketing valuations have prompted some commentators to argue that we could be witnessing the formation of a "sports bubble", this does not seem correct to us.
United Kingdom Commercial
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Travers Smith LLP
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Antitrust, EU Competition

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Getting Down To Business? CMA Opens Investigation Into Microsoft’s Business Software Ecosystem
The UK's Competition and Markets Authority has launched a strategic market status investigation into Microsoft's business software ecosystem, examining whether the tech giant holds substantial and entrenched market power across its productivity suite, operating systems, and security tools. The investigation will scrutinize Microsoft's commercial practices, technical design choices, and potential leveraging of market dominance into adjacent markets like cloud services, with the possibility of imposing bespok
United Kingdom Anti-trust
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Macfarlanes LLP
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