Industry: Utilities
RPC poaches Leigh Day competition head
The lead lawyer on a series of novel excessive pricing class action claims against UK water utility companies has left Leigh Day to join Reynolds Porter Chamberlain in London.
19 June 2024
Don’t go breaking my Hart-Scott-Rodino: The Tipline for 23 January 2024
Any graduate of an AP history course can rattle off the names of the Sherman and Clayton Acts, but it is knowledge of the HSR rules that separate antitrust’s casual fans from diehards. The parent company behind American Apparel has accused an activist investor of breaking those sacred pre-merger vows as part of a boardroom coup. Meanwhile, the Federal Trade Commission has published new size-of-transaction thresholds for M&A groupies.
23 January 2024
Indonesia's antitrust head backs digital competition reform
Indonesia’s newly-appointed competition head said he supports the creation of a specific digital competition law for the country.
19 January 2024
California enforcer: states more nimble than feds
States will bring more antitrust cases independent of the Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission in the upcoming years, California’s top antitrust prosecutor has predicted.
16 January 2024
Water companies slam novel UK environmental class actions
Severn Trent has dismissed a landmark class action accusing it of overcharging UK customers by discharging sewage into the country’s waterways as “highly speculative” and without merit.
09 August 2023
COFECE hits Veolia, Engie and Suez with gun jumping fines
Mexico’s competition authority has slapped three major water and waste management companies with penalties for failing to notify three separate transactions as part of the Veolia/Suez mega-merger.
31 May 2023
French court rejects EDF request to intervene in complaint appeal
A French court has rejected EDF's request to intervene in an appeal challenging the national competition authority's dismissal of a complaint against the state-owned energy provider for allegedly abusing its dominance.
24 November 2022
UK Supreme Court rejects Royal Mail abuse of dominance appeal
The UK’s top court has refused to hear Royal Mail’s appeal against a decision upholding its £50 million abuse of dominance fine from the country’s communications regulator, ending the hotly-contested saga over the agency’s largest-ever antitrust penalty.
20 June 2022
Edison illegally restricts labour market, fired employees say
Three former employees have filed a lawsuit accusing Southern California Edison of abusing its monopoly power in an effort to stunt the growth of their own electrical contracting company.
10 June 2022
India hits Veolia with gun-jumping fine for Suez deal
The Competition Commission of India has fined Veolia nearly €120,000 for failing to notify its acquisition of a 29.9% stake in Suez from Engie, which was the first step in its two-pronged takeover of its rival.
24 May 2022