Competition Law
Exclusive: The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has dealt with the first M&A referred to it, clearing within 18 days the proposed takeover by Reliance Industrial Infrastructure of Bharti AXA Life Insurance Company, advised by AZB & Partners and Talwar Thakore Associates respectively.
Competition Law
Exclusive: Singhania & Partners LLP will appeal against a majority decision of the Competition Commission of India (CCI) that gave a clean chit to Microsoft, represented by Amarchand Mangaldas, rejecting last year’s complaint by Singhania that alleged anti-competitive practice and abuse of dominant position by the Indian subsidiary of the Redmond-based software giant.
Competition Law
The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has reportedly fixed the penalty to be imposed on the National Stock Exchange (NSE) a month after having found the bourse guilty of abuse of dominant position in a dispute with MCX-SX.
Competition Law
The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has registered a complaint against iPhone and iPad maker Apple for its alleged abuse of dominant position in India.
Competition Law
Exclusive: P&A Associates and client MCX-SX won an order from the Competition Commission of India (CCI) finding that the National Stock Exchange (NSE), which was represented by Amarchand Mangaldas and Vaish Associates, had abused its dominant position.
The case will head to the CCI on 2 June to allow NSE to respond on the question of penalty, but the decision significantly reduced the director general’s (DG) earlier definition of the “relevant market” in a partial victory for NSE, according to a CCI draft order that Legally India has seen.
Competition Law
Breaking: The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has ruled on the first ever case to enter its doors, levying nominal fines against prominent film producers in the case brought by Luthra & Luthra on behalf of cinema owners two years ago.
Competition Law
The Competition Commission of India (CCI) would now be open to informal talks with advisers before final merger control filings: an amendment of the policy in its latest draft regulations.
Competition Law
Breaking: The long-awaited latest and probably final draft of the Competition Commission’s merger control rules are finally here, and the CCI appears to have listened to a number of key stakeholder concerns.
Competition Law
The Competition Commission of India (CCI) was notified with its full merger control powers late last, according to competition lawyers, which would take effect from 1 June.
Competition Law
Amarchand Mangaldas has challenged the Competition Commission of India’s (CCI) jurisdiction in a writ petition filed for Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) to prevent the anti-trust regulator, which is represented by Economic Laws Practice, from deciding on an aviation fuel suppy dispute with Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) represented by R Sariprabhu Advocates.
Competition Law
The Competition Commission Appellate Tribunal (Compat) has stayed the Competition Commission of India’s (CCI’s) November order imposing a Rs 1 crore fine on Kingfisher airlines for alleged non-compliance in furnishing sufficient information in a cartelisation probe.
Competition Law
Exclusive: Economic Laws Practice (ELP) has been called in to draft Afghanistan’s new competition law regime together with the UK think tank Adam Smith Institute in a project funded by the UK government’s Department for International Development (DFID).
Competition Law
The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has made it first order, clearing 16 banks from the allegation of having acted in a cartel to fix penalty rates of homeowners foreclosing housing loans.
Competition Law
The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has imposed a Rs 1 crore ($220,000) fine on Kingfisher Airlines for not providing sufficient information in the CCI’s investigation of the airline’s alliance with Jet Airways, according to the PTI.
Competition Law
Singhania and Partners, represented by Seth Dua & Associates, has made a complaint against software giant Microsoft before the Competition Commission of India (CCI) alleging anti-competitive practices and abuse of a dominant position, according to news channel CNBC TV18.
Competition Law
Breaking news exclusive: Naik Paranjpe & Company has yet again successfully turned to the Competition Commission of India (CCI) for a Reliance film company, having secured an interim order restraining arch-nemesis Karnataka Film Chamber of Commerce (KFCC) from allegedly directing its members to boycot Reliance MediaWorks multiplex theatres in Bangalore and the state.