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MAITLAND WALKER WINS GLE LAW FIRM OF THE YEAR FOR COMPETITION LAW


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DIGITAL MARKETS, COMPETITION AND CONSUMERS BILL - CHANGES TO UK COMPETITION AND
MERGER LAW

1. INTRODUCTION The Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill (the “Bill’)
was introduced in the House of Commons on 25 April 2023. It is expected to
receive Royal Assent in early 2024 and to come into force by the end of that
year. The Bill is very substantial, comprising six parts, 317 Sections and 26
Schedules providing, • A significant expansion of UK competition and merger law;
• A new competition regime for digital markets; and • New enforcement powers for
UK consumer protection laws. The Bill is scheduled to complete its passage
through Parliament by the Spring of 2024. However, with the General Election due
to take place before November 2024, there is a risk that the legislation may not
get on to the statute book this side of the Election. Given the size of the Bill
and its broad coverage, this Briefing Note will cover the proposed changes to UK
competition and merger law. The new competition rules for the digital sector and
the new enforcement powers for UK consumer protection will be covered in
separate MW Briefing Notes. 2. UK COMPETITION AND MERGER LAW The Competition and
Markets Authority (“CMA”) is the regulatory authority primarily responsible for
the enforcement of competition and merger law under the Competition Act 1998
(“CA98”) and the Enterprise Act 2002 (“EA02”) as amended by the Enterprise and
Regulatory Reform Act 2013. Its responsibilities include: • Carrying out
investigations of perceived anti-competitive behaviour and issuing infringement
decisions ordering appropriate remedial action and the imposition of fines and
other penalties; • Investigating acquisitions and mergers above defined
thresholds and if appropriate issuing decisions prohibiting transactions or
ordering behavioural or structural remedies; and • Undertaking sectoral
inquiries where there are competition concerns and subsidy reports with
recommendations to Government as to measures to alleviate any perceived
anti-competitive effects. The Bill proposes amendments in the law to broaden the
application of existing UK Competition Law and to enhance the CMA’s
investigative and enforcement powers. 3. MERGERS In relation to mergers, the
Bill proposes some changes to the merger thresholds under which a merger will
qualify for CMA scrutiny. Currently, a qualifying merger situation will arise
where: a) the turnover of target exceeding £70 million (the “turnover test’), or
b) post merger, the merged enterprise will acquire a share of supply of the
products or services concerned in excess of 25% or an accretion in an existing
share of 25% (the “share of supply test’). The Bill proposes an increase in the
turnover test from £70 million to £100 million but makes no change in the share
of supply test. However, the Bill proposes a new “acquirer focused” threshold
for merger review where one party has, a) A ‘significant market presence in the
UK comprising a share of supply of goods or services of at least 33%; and b) UK
turnover of over £350 million. In such cases, the merger will qualify for CMA
review whether or not the parties are competing enterprises. The Bill also
proposes a new safe harbour for ’small mergers‘ defined as those where each
party’s UK turnover is less than £10 million. 4. COMPETITION LAW INVESTIGATIONS
The Bill proposes a number of changes to CA98 broadening the CMA’s powers of
intervention, its investigating powers and the penalties which it may impose.
These include the following: • The removal of the requirement that an agreement
infringing the ‘Chapter I Prohibition’ must be implemented or intended to be
implemented in the UK. Under the Bill, any agreement giving rise to actual or
potential anti-competitive effects within the UK, will be caught by the
Prohibition whether or not there is an intention to implement; [NOT CLEAR] • The
imposition of a formal duty on any person who knows or suspects that a CMA
investigation is being or is likely to be carried out has a duty to preserve and
not falsify, conceal or destroy any document relevant to the investigation. •
Additional powers to seize documents from domestic premises; • Enhanced
information gathering and enforcement powers eg increasing the fines for failing
to comply with an information request or providing false or misleading
information of up to 1% of turnover plus a daily fine of 5% of daily turnover to
replace or supplement the current fixed penalties capped at £30,000 and daily
penalties capped at £15,000; and • The power to support international
co-operation with other regulatory authorities by exchanging information and
even exercising the CMA’s investigatory powers to obtain information on behalf
of an authority of another country such powers however, being conditional on
reciprocity. The Bill also proposes that the Competition Appeal Tribunal (“CAT”)
should have: • The power to grant declaratory relief; and • The power to grant
exemplary damages in collective actions. MARKET STUDIES The Bill proposes a
range of measures designed to allow the CMA to carry out market studies with
greater flexibility and utility by allowing the CMA to accept undertakings under
Part 4 EA02 at any stage and to impose on the CMA a duty to monitor undertakings
and any orders made subsequent to the market study.    
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MAITLAND WALKER SUCCESSFUL IN DEFENDING TRADEMARK INFRINGEMENT CLAIM BROUGHT BY
THE BEVERLY HILLS POLO…

LIFESTYLE EQUITIES CV v ROYAL COUNTY OF BERKSHIRE POLO CLUB CASE NO.
IL-2018-000115, [2023] EWHC 1839 (Ch) BACKGROUND The Claimants, Lifestyle
Equities CV and an associated company, owners of the Beverly Hills Polo Club
(BHPC) brand brought an action against the Royal County of Berkshire Polo Club
(RCBPC), its directors, its former licensing agent, the director of that former
licensing agent and six overseas companies (some of which were current or former
licensees of RCBPC) operating in Chile, Panama, Peru, Mexico and the UAE
(together “the Overseas Territories”) for infringement of the BHPC registered
trade mark in the UK, EU and the Overseas Territories. BHPC’s principle claim
was that the RCBPC marks, both depicting a polo rider on a horse (including that
at fig. 1 below), were confusingly similar to the BHPC mark (fig. 2 below) which
also depicting a polo rider on a horse. BHPC sought an injunction and damages in
respect of RCBPC’s use of its marks which it said constituted trade mark
infringement under section 10(2) and 10(3) of the Trade Marks Act 1994 (“TMA”).
 
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