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This is the competition law blog of CERHA HEMPEL Dezső and Partners. We regularly publish news, articles and analysis about competition law, written by the members of our law firm. On occasion we give place for other fields of law as well.
A Great Success: CHSH Dezső & Partners and publisher Wolters Kluwer hosted a joint book launching event
The Hungarian legal publisher, Wolters Kluwer introduced its newest book to the public on the 11th of April, 2018 in the state room of Pázmány Péter Catholic University in Budapest. The book’s title is Private Enforcement Litigation – a handbook for practitioners. The...
Presentation of the new book: Antitrust damages actions
CHSH’s Antitrust Law Group would like to cordially invite the readers of this blog to the presentation of a new book that was written by eminent antitrust law experts and edited by CHSH’s staff. The book is published by Wolters Kluwer, and its editor-in-chief is Tamás...
Cooperation with the Hungarian Competition Authority – Worth more now than ever before?
The Hungarian Competition Authority (HCA) issued a new communique on antitrust fines in December 2017. The communique added new options that cooperating companies can take advantage to significantly reduce the amount of the fines imposed on them or even completely...
Conference on the Antitrust Law of the Visegrad Four
At the initiative of the Hungarian Competition Authority (HCA), representatives of the competition law communities of the V4+ countries met once again in Budapest yesterday, this time in a conference held under the auspices of Hungary’s V4 Presidency. According to our...
CHSH wins Real Estate Team and Antitrust Team of the Year Award in Wolters Kluwer’s Second Annual Lawyers’ Award Competition
As part of its Lawyers’ Award competition, Wolters Kluwer announced winners in nine categories, including dispute resolution, intellectual property, energy law, antitrust law and real estate law. CHSH Dezső & Partners is the only law firm to have won an award in...
Tibi Kasza got off without fine – but what about the next one?
Even the Hungarian Competition Authority (HCA) pays attention to influencers By now everybody knows that there are “influencers” in social media. In the HCA’s definition, these are people who have the ability to influence the opinion of consumers and share content on...
Accusation against the German car manufactures: the cartel case of the decade?
Will environmental protection be the cause for the fall of cartelists? The German car industry’s troubles started with the diesel scandal in 2015. As everyone knows, it was discovered in 2015 that Volkswagen used various forms of manipulation to ensure that its diesel...
Exclusion of online market places from distribution: is the tide turning?
According to the French Supreme Court, prohibiting an authorized distributor from selling on certain market place is not necessarily a strict restriction of competition. Case history With its decision on 13 September 2017, the French Supreme Court (Cour de Cassation)...
The defendants’ bench is full: more massive fines in the trucks cartel
On 27 September 2017, the Commission announced that it fined Swedish heavy truck manufacturer Scania €880 million because it had participated in the 14-year long trucks cartel (between 1997 and 2011). The cartelists fixed the price of medium and heavy trucks (over 6...
Dezső & Partners’ lawyers attend the 1st industry-specific competition law conference
Wolters Kluwer and the Hungarian Competition Law Association joined forces to organise the first industry-specific conference on competition law on 20 September 2017, where prominent representatives of certain industrial sectors and noted practitioners of competition...
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