Competition & antitrust

August 2026  |  SPECIAL REPORT: COMPETITION & ANTITRUST

Financier Worldwide Magazine

August 2026 Issue

Q&A: Algorithmic collusion: antitrust enforcement

All agencies are focused on the fact that technology cannot create a safe space for collusion and harmful price-fixing. FW discusses algorithmic collusion in antitrust enforcement with Nicole Kar, Lauren O’Brien, Katherine B. Forrest, Eyitayo St. Matthew-Daniel and Henrik Morch at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP.

Cartel hunt: how enforcers use whistleblowers and AI to detect conspiracies

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP Enforcers are now turning to new tools to detect and investigate antitrust cartels to supplement leniency. Agencies are implementing or expanding programmes offering whistleblowers financial rewards for information on antitrust offences.

Competition regulation and enforcement trends in the EU’s digital economy

Gleiss Lutz Hootz Hirsch PartmbB To cope with the challenges digital markets pose with their accelerated dynamics, concentrative tendencies and threats of unwanted economic and potentially political power, the EU has built a comprehensive rulebook for digital markets.

Canada tests limits with increased use of production orders

Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP As Canada’s Competition Bureau expands the extent and scope of its use of section 11 powers, businesses operating in Canada will increasingly have to grapple with the burdens that such orders impose.

What national security review can learn from merger control

Honeywell Aerospace The risk lies not in the existence of screening but in its direction: an expanding and indeterminate concept of security, applied through opaque and divergent procedures, that fragments the global market for investment and leaves dealmakers unable to plan.

Q&A: New frontier of merger control

Internal documents have to tell a procompetitive story long before any transaction is on the table. FW discusses the new frontier of merger control with Valeri Bozhikov at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher UK LLP and Logan Breed at Hogan Lovells Cadwalader.

CONTRIBUTORS

Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher UK LLP

Gleiss Lutz Hootz Hirsch PartmbB

Hogan Lovells Cadwalader

Honeywell Aerospace

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

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