Tag: Competition Law
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Online Markets and Competition Law in India
By Apoorva Mandhani, Symbiosis Law School, Pune. Online market platforms have altered the dynamics of many businesses since its inception. This has shaken the well-established offline retail market; and offline retailers fear the loss of business at a great extent because of E- Tailers.[1] Consequently, even at such a nascent stage, online markets have come…
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Implications of Competition Act, 2002 on Cross-border Mergers and Acquisitions
By Apoorva Mandhani, Symbiosis Law School, Pune. Cross border mergers and acquisitions have significantly increased over the past decade, fuelled by the era of globalization, as a response to the pressures of an increasingly consolidating world economy. Cross border mergers and acquisitions now pose as an elementary feature of the global business landscape.
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Are the discounts given by e-retailers anti-competitive?
By Aayushi Mehta, University of Mumbai. Since time immemorial, consumers have known only one way of shopping- and that is going to the shop and buying what they need. We can know from the history of the early Roman Empire that efforts were made to prevent anti-competitive practices. Fines were imposed on anyone who deliberately stopped supply…
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Extent of validity of Non-Compete Clause in India
By Apoorva Mandhani, Symbiosis Law School, Pune. A clause in an employment agreement that restrains an employee from working with a competitor or carrying out a competing business is called a Non-Compete clause. An agreement in restraint of trade has been defined as “one in which a party agrees with any other party to restrict his liberty…
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Competition Law and Public Procurement
By Archit Gupta, National Law Institute University, Bhopal. Governments devote a large share of taxpayers’ money to public procurement – purchasing goods and services from road building to school textbooks. Besides the central ministries and departments, public sector enterprises also form a major share in the overall public procurements. According to a paper by the Competition…