Healthcare & Competition Newsletter, February 2023

Healthcare & Competition Newsletter, February 2023

In this new issue of our Healthcare & Competition Newsletter, we provide an overview of the most relevant news for this sector on the authorities and courts’ front. In particular, we revisit the highly controversial Grail/Illumina case which seems to have a promising future in the podium of European competition law sagas.

Also, very specially, we proudly present two cases in which we successfully advised clients on antitrust matters: (i) the first European fine for sham litigation, in which we acted as complainants; and (ii) the conventional termination of a Spanish antitrust file referred to vertical practices.

We will close the Newsletter with several short highlights that may deserve a closer look in the near future.

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