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Here you can find the recent competition policy and public procurement projects in which Lear has been involved.
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Competition Economics, Litigation
DAMAGES ESTIMATION IN THE EUROPEAN TRUCK MARKET – ONGOING
Lear is assisting multiple hauliers in the Italian, Slovak, and Czech Republic market in the action for damages arising from a collusive price-fixing agreement in the market for medium and heavy trucks, as established by the European Commission. In Italy, Lear is currently involved in five claims and assisting 212 firms. Lear economists have been […] Read more
Policy Assessment, Regulation
Past merger assessment in technology sector
Lear carried out a research and evaluation project for the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) looking at approaches to assessing potential theories of harm and evaluating past merger decisions in the technology sector. Lear’s report identifies which theories of harm Competition Authorities should investigate when facing a merger in the technology sector and what […] Read more
Policy Assessment
Study on the economic impact of competition policy enforcement on the functioning of telecoms markets in the EU (European Commission – DG competition)
Lear, jointly with DIW Berlin and Analysys Mason, has been retained by DG competition to study the economic impact of competition policy enforcement in the European (“EU”) telecoms markets. The study consists of both a descriptive analysis on the evolution of competition policy enforcement and the functioning of telecoms market over the past 20 years […] Read more
Litigation
Arbitration dispute in the Mexican telecom market
Tele Fácil, a Mexican telecommunication company, initiated a dispute against the Mexican telecom regulator, IFT, in relation to the implementation of an interconnection agreement negotiated with the incumbent operator, Telmex. The interconnection agreement between Tele Fácil and Telmex involved, among several elements, a very high interconnection rate for all the traffic delivered from Telmex to […] Read more
Policy Assessment, Regulation
Quantifying harm from regulation in the telecom sector
Lear is assisting a telecom operator in quantifying harm that will be suffered as a result of a change of the regulated price of compulsory communication data that have to be provided to the Judiciary by law. The analysis developed by Lear aims at verifying the methodology used to determine incremental costs borne by the […] Read more
Litigation
Assessment of damages caused by a breach of co-marketing agreements
Lear assisted a major insurance company in claims for damages caused by a fashion leather industry brand that did not fulfil their co-marketing contract agreements. Damages have been estimated based on a comparison between contractual terms and common market practices as well as on the estimation of the fair market value of the co-marketing agreement […] Read more
Cartels
Alleged horizontal agreement in the mobile telecom market
The Italian Competition Authority started an investigation into the retail market for mobile telecommunications services to assess whether mobile operators had coordinated their strategy with reference to a change in the billing cycle for mobile services imposed by a change in regulation. According to the Authority, the operators all reacted to the change in regulation […] Read more
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