Antitrust Across the Atlantic

Is a new era of antitrust and competition policy on the horizon?

Amid mounting geopolitical tensions, technological disruption, and a shifting global order, governments around the world are looking to competition policy as a catch-all tool that can help achieve everything from economic security and innovation to decarbonization and other public interest goals.

Although it’s an open question whether new policies will have desired effects, it is clear that substantive economic research and analysis will play a bigger role for executives, attorneys, and policymakers themselves as they look to withstand today’s choppy political waters.

BRG’s latest issue of ThinkSet addresses these topics and more with contributions from experts across the firm’s burgeoning Antitrust & Competition practice, including several recently arrived at BRG.

In This Issue

• A Q&A with Adina Claici and Henry Kahwaty on new competition policies in the US and European Union (EU)—and their impact on merger controls.
• A podcast with David Teece and Xavier Boutin about dynamic competition, how to maintain innovation in the tech sector, and other hot-button issues.
• Hong Kong-based Dennis Beling and Dorcas Kwan argue that competition authorities across Asia-Pacific may want to reconsider adopting laws modeled after the EU’s Digital Markets Act when looking to rein in Big Tech.
• Johannesburg-based Liberty Mncube questions whether revisions to South Africa’s public interest merger guidelines have gone too far.
• Konstantin Ebinger and Lawrence Krug take up regulators’ heightened scrutiny of buyer power in certain labor markets.
• In a two-part series, Ai Deng discusses the latest research into pricing algorithms and collusion—and what executives and attorneys should know; and implications of using third-party pricing algorithms.
• Mark Bosley surveys the surge of competition litigation and the shifting role of experts.
• David Parker discusses developments in UK competition policy and what the C-suite should consider as the CMA’s scope increases amid a simultaneous increase in private antitrust enforcement claims.
• Francisco Espinosa and Joanna Franaszek offer a new perspective on multimarket contact in horizontal merger assessments.