Concurrences

Estimated reading time: 6 min On 19 August 2026, the US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit affirmed the final approval of the nationwide class settlement resolving the Sherman Act challenge to the National Association of Realtors rule requiring sellers to offer compensation to buyers brokers as a condition of access to a multiple listing service.

Estimated reading time: 3 min On 21 August 2026, the European Commission approved a €4.5 million German scheme granting direct subsidies to undertakings active in the primary production of fishery and aquaculture products, in order to offset part of the increase in fuel costs attributable to the Middle East crisis.

Estimated reading time: 10 min On 12 August 2026, the Chilean Tribunal de Defensa de la Libre Competencia ("TDLC") upheld the abuse of dominance claim brought by the power generator Generadora Metropolitana SpA ("GM") against Metrogas S.A., the natural gas distributor serving Greater Santiago, in Generadora Metropolitana / Metrogas (Judgment No. 215/2026, Rol C No. 477-23).

Estimated reading time: 9 min Following a sector inquiry launched by the Competition Board’s decision of 8 December 2021, the Turkish Competition Authority ("TCA") published its Preliminary Report on the Pharmaceutical Sector Inquiry (“Preliminary Report”) on 10 August 2026, opening it for public consultation.

Estimated reading time: 6 min Paul Weiss Discusses Delaware Decision Ordering Specific Performance of $2.35 Billion Merger* In Verisk Analytics, Inc. v. ExactLogix, Inc., the Delaware Court of Chancery held in a post-trial opinion that a buyer’s termination of a commercial relationship with the target’s competitor constituted “willful conduct” that was the “primary cause” of the failure of an antitrust closing condition that prevented the deal from closing before the outside date.

Estimated reading time: 4 min The President of the Polish Competition Authority (UOKiK) has fined AGCO, the wholesale distributor of the Valtra, Fendt and Massey Ferguson agricultural machinery brands in Poland, together with 8 of its authorised dealers and 5 individual managers, a total of PLN 135,835,906.25 for an 11-year cartel under which the dealers divided the Polish market geographically and exchanged pricing information so that farmers could not obtain a competitive offer outside...

Estimated reading time: 5 min The Turkish Competition Authority has published the Preliminary Report of the pharmaceutical sector inquiry opened by the Competition Board in December 2021, and has invited the public to comment on its findings, observations, assessments and policy recommendations.

Estimated reading time: 2 min Today, 1 August 2026, a significant package of competition law reforms aimed at strengthening competition in both the private and public sectors enters into force in Sweden. The new rules introduce three major changes to Swedish competition law: a new competition tool for market investigations, a new act governing public commercial activities, and revised merger control rules.

Estimated reading time: 5 min For more about the FDI regimes in the world, check in Open Access the Cleary Gottlieb + Concurrences Foreign Direct Investment Guide. On 2 August 2026 the French Government published in the Journal officiel a decree and an implementing ministerial order which together bring French companies listed exclusively on foreign stock exchanges within the reach of the 10% notification trigger of the French foreign investment screening regime.

Estimated reading time: 5 min The Czech Constitutional Court has dismissed as manifestly unfounded a constitutional complaint by the ČEZ energy group challenging an inspection of business premises carried out by the Czech Competition Authority (ÚOHS) at ČEZ’s registered seat in September 2024, upholding the judgments of the Regional Court in Brno and of the Supreme Administrative Court (NSS) that had found the inspection lawful.