Thomas Vinje: History of Antitrust Cases Against BigTech | EU Competition Law | Digital Markets Act

Thomas Vinje, Chairman Emeritus, Global Antitrust Practice Group at Clifford Chance.
Thomas Vinje had been involved for decades in major IT and antitrust cases - including such landmark cases like IBM, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Apple…
While looking at some of these cases, the aim of the conversation was to offer Thomas Vinje's broader strategic views on the development of competition policy - primarily in the area of digital markets. We looked at the history and the latest development.
As Thomas Vinje represents industry coalition in many high-profile, textbook cases, knowing the functioning of the system from inside, I asked him to offer to us his reflections about the implications of these cases on the functioning of competition in digital markets.
We also discuss the development of Art 102 TFEU over the last years through the prism of the latest CJEU judgments.
We looked at the increased standard of procedural requirements and rights-based vocabulary. Does the CJEU expect too much in terms of the standard of evidentiary requirements, competition on the merits, the requirement to conduct counterfactual analysis?
We also discussed the DMA: vision, goals, expectation, feasibility, preferences and many other important issues.
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In the next 81st episode (to be published next Tuesday) we’ll have a conversation with three antitrust academics - Lena Hornkohl (Vienna), Matthew Cole (Exeter) and Christian Bergqvist (Copenhagen) at seminal Court of Justice Grand Chamber judgment in Google Shopping.
The Digital Markets Research Hub is an independent academic initiative aiming at scrutinising the functioning of competition/regulation in digital markets. We host one-to-one interviews with leading policymakers, regulators and practitioners. We also organise online mini-workshops inviting high-profile experts and academics in various fields of digital competition law & policy to discuss the most vibrant issues of the ongoing regulatory reforms in digital markets. While having our clear normative stand on the matters discussed within the hub, we value different views and invite relevant stakeholders and thinkers representing the whole spectrum of reasonable positions on how to regulate competition in digital markets. All our materials are available at TH-cam channel, which you are very welcome to subscribe to. This interview is organised & conducted by Prof. Oles Andriychuk, School of Law, University of Exeter.