WEBINAR ON “VERTICAL RESTRAINTS IN ONLINE SALES- COMPETITION ISSUES” -19TH JUNE 2020 While continuing to fight the Covid-19 Pandemic and working from home, like most other lawyers in India, knowledge dissemination has proved to be a silver lining. I decided to conduct a series of webinars on antitrust issues of larger importance. I…
Uber and Ola win antitrust case in India (?) – No Hub and Spoke cartel with drivers -NCLAT dismisses appeal on grounds of lack of locus standi By way of judgment dated 29.05.2020, the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (“NCLAT”) has exonerated cab aggregators Ola and Uber from allegations of…
CCI publishes Report on Market Study on e-commerce in India The CCI today released much-awaited “Market Study on E-Commerce in India – Key Findings and Observations”, which was launched in May,2019. The preliminary findings of the study were presented in a “CCI Workshop on E -Commerce : Changing Competition Landscape in India ” on August 30, 2019…
End of deep discounting by Uber in India ? Uber loses first round of legal battle in India -Supreme Court dismisses its appeal -Directs investigation against UBER for alleged abuse of dominance -leaves some questions unanswered ! Will India prove to be the nemesis for the Digital Cab Aggregator Giant Uber ? This seems to…
The Competition Commission of India (CCI) vide its order dated 19.07.2017 has dismissed allegations of predatory pricing against OLA (ANI Technologies) made by two Bangalore based radio taxi service providers, Fast Track (Fast Track Call Cab Ltd.) and Meru (Meru Cab Company Pvt. Ltd) (‘Informants’). The Informants had alleged in 2015 that OLA had abused…
