On 8 March 2021, the European Commission unconditionally cleared Microsoft’s $7.5bn acquisition of ZeniMax (publisher of video games including the Fallout and The Elder Scrolls series). The Commission considered and rejected horizontal theories of harm in games publishing and non-horizontal theories of harm arising from Microsoft’s Xbox console. A CRA team including Cristina Caffarra, Oliver Latham, and Matteo Foschi advised the Parties.
The economics of 5G deployment in the “race” to 5G: The state of 5G in the US, South Korea, and other countries
As regulators in various countries consider when and how much spectrum to allocate for 5G services, valuable lessons can be learned from the experiences of 5G...