Sep 16, 2022 They did it again – Crisis Manager FCO allows exclusive cooperation between big German gas wholesalers By Dorothee de Crozals Kaan Gürer New floating LNG terminals are part of the solution to replace discontinued Russian gas supplies for the upcoming winter period in...
Sep 09, 2022 Extraordinary decisions in extraordinary times: The German FCO is the first competition authority to allow competitor collaboration for gas shortages By Dorothee de Crozals Kaan Gürer Crisis management with a touch of ESG: The German Federal Cartel Office (FCO) this week again demonstrated that it can act quickly and...
Jan 25, 2022 German Competition Law and ESG – sustainability-cooperation is fine, unjustified price-fixing is (still) not By Dorothee de Crozals Kaan Gürer The German Federal Cartel Office (FCO) is actively participating in the debate on how to integrate ESG topics into competition law. As...
Jan 10, 2022 Happy New Year? The German FCO closes its first GAFA proceeding under new competition rules By Dorothee de Crozals Kaan Gürer Last week, the German Federal Cartel Office (FCO) published the outcome of its proceedings against Alphabet/Google initiated in May 2021...
Dec 20, 2021 Germany - No One Stop Shop for Big Tech? By Dorothee de Crozals Kaan Gürer Andreas Mundt, president of the German Federal Cartel Office (FCO), continuously stresses that an effective and strong merger control...
Aug 05, 2021 Facebook/Kustomer – Germany’s attack on the EU’s One-Stop-Shop principle in merger control? By Kaan Gürer Dorothee de Crozals The German Federal Cartel Office (FCO) has initiated new proceedings against Facebook. It was already investigating Facebook under the...
Jul 08, 2021 Germany takes the lead in GAFA "gatekeeper" proceedings By Dorothee de Crozals Kaan Gürer The German Federal Cartel Office kept its word. Following the entry into force of the latest German Competition Law Reform in January...
Jun 21, 2021 ESG, German football and antitrust law - where is the connection? By Kaan Gürer Dorothee de Crozals We are currently in the midst of the UEFA Euro 2021, a time which reminds us of great football players and the many unforgotten wisdoms...