Comments regarding the new perspective and understanding that economic analysis of law (exemplary portrayed by the book of Easterbrook & Fischel) provides of traditional corporate legal issues and problems

Several relevant issues concerning information in the market for dental (and other health care) services are analyzed when commenting the Spanish Competition Court Resolution of 5 October 2001 (477/1999, Odontólogos Córdoba) which condemned the local professional dentists' association for an...

In reflecting on the peculiar legal features of American Depositary Shares, this paper considers the hypothesis of insolvency of some of the relevant parties in the contractual scheme in order to extract the legal implications (both contractual and otherwise) arising from the use of ADRs as a...

This paper studies the use of merger review as a shield to obstacle hostile tender offers of a company. Commenting on the transaction Oracle/PeopleSoft (2004) it reflects on the significance and risks of the antitrust authorities' analysis of M&A. The correct definition of the relevant market...

This article analyzes the features of debt and late payment registries as an instrument of information exchange among companies from the perspective of antitrust laws. Since 1992 the Spanish Competition Tribunal has issued more than 300 resolutions dealing with the business agreements to share...

Insurance companies and insurance activities are subject to profuse industry regulation, justified by potential market failures, but this does not exclude the applicability to them of Competition Law. Nevertheless, almost all legal systems worldwide foresee, one way or another, significant...

This article reviews the origins, evolution and legal discipline of U.S. Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) as a way of comparative contextualization of the new real state market investment listed corporations, set up by Act 1/2009, of October 26

Competition law and regulation had played a prominent role in the process of construction and liberalization of the internal energy market in the EU. Several transactions in the last decade have shown the difficulties of the process and how Member States may occasionally make a political use of...