According to a ruling of the OLG Oldenburg (Higher Regional Court of Oldenburg), luring employees away from competitors does not constitute a violation of competition law (Az. 6 U 135/15). GRP Rainer Lawyers and Tax Advisors in Cologne, Berlin, Bonn, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich, Stuttgart and London – www.grprainer.com/en conclude: A company requested that […]
Onshore wind farm developments frequently divide opinion, especially when the wind farm is to be located in a remote or environmentally sensitive area. Yet there have been few legal challenges to the grant of consent and fewer have been successful. In the case of The John Muir Trust, Petitioner the Court of Session has quashed the Scottish […]
In early 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court held in North Carolina State Board of Dental Examiners v. FTC that the “active state supervision” prong of the state-action immunity from antitrust liability test applied to state licensing boards controlled by market participants. You can read my analysis of the decision here. And you can read the amicus brief that Bona Law filed in […]
Several German publishers (e.g. BILD, Zeit-Online, Handelsblatt, Pro7/Sat1, RTL Interactive) already tried to convince German courts to outlaw AdBlock Plus – a software that allows users to block certain content while looking at websites. So far unsuccessfully. A few days ago, the DIEWELT, which is part of the Springer family, tried to obtain a preliminary […]
IR Global, the world’s largest exclusive network of advisory firms is delighted to introduce Benjamin Niemeijer of La Gro Advocaten. Benjamin has joined IR as our exclusive Competition Law Member in the Netherlands. a Gro is a full service law firm in the Netherlands and is among the fifty largest and oldest firms. Although everyone is welcome for […]
IR Global, the world’s largest exclusive network of advisory firms is delighted to introduce David Flint of MacRoberts LLP. David has joined IR as our exclusive Corporate Governance & Compliance, Competition Law Member in Scotland. “We are one of Scotland’s leading commercial law firms. We maintain strong links within the Scottish economy, working with large private […]
Many of our clients are retailers who have been subjected to price restrictions from manufacturers, whether in the form of minimum advertised pricing (MAP), unilateral pricing policies (UPP), or resale price maintenance (RPM). In fact, it is one of the most common situations our clients encounter. In many ways, the explosion of e-commerce has been good for consumers but […]
Bona Law attorneys Jarod Bona and Aaron Gott submitted a comment to the FTC on behalf of LD Vision Group in response to the FTC’s request for submissions on the Contact Lens Rule. LD Vision Group, is a leading online contact-lens retailer that operates the websites LensDiscounters.com and Opticontacts.com and an outspoken advocate of reducing barriers to free trade in the market for replacement contact lenses. […]
Foreign companies investing in the EU would be well-advised to find out a bit more about state aid control before accepting the very attractive incentives they are offered by some countries. State aid control is still the poor brother of EU competition law, and often ignored even by the most sophisticated in-house legal departments. This […]
FTC Commissioner Joshua Wright recently announced his retirement from the FTC Commission to go back to George Mason University School of Law. But he did not go out quietly. Not only was he incredibly productive during his FTC tenure, but he left right after the Federal Trade Commission issued “Principles Regarding ‘Unfair Methods of Competition’ Under Section 5 […]
Bona Law attorneys Jarod Bona and Aaron Gott filed an amicus curiae brief on behalf of LD Vision Group urging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit to uphold a Utah law that protects online discounters who compete with other retailers and optometrists on price. LD Vision argued in its brief that the Utah Contact Lens Consumers […]
It is easier to succeed in business without competition than with it. And if you are used to practicing your profession in a particular way, it is quite uncomfortable when new approaches develop that undercut your business. (As an aside, Aaron Gott and I just published an article for CIO Storythat discussed this idea in the context of […]