Exclusive dealings in multisided platform markets: The case of Gympass in Brazil
Introduction. In 2020, the wellness platform Totalpass filed a complaint before the Brazilian antitrust authority (CADE) claiming that a competitor, Gympass,...
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- 01Aker Solutions, SLB (formerly Schlumberger)/Subsea 7The UK team – Matthew Bennett, Vicki Mertzanidou, and Mariam Arutyunyan – coordinated the engagement, with Marci de Oliveira assisting on the Brazilian...View engagement
- 02Assisting Napster (iFood) during the acquisition of Pedidos Já, a local competitorCRA experts prepared a natural experiment for this case. It was shown that the rivalry between the iFood and Pedidos Já was not significant, as, when one of...View engagement
- 03Assisting Stone in the acquisition of LinxThis transaction regards the acquisition of Linx, a Brazilian provider of software services by Stone (Nasdaq listed, STNE), a provider of financial technology...View engagement