Antitrust

Credit Implications of The Digital Markets Act

Credit Implications of The Digital Markets Act

9 min readIntroduction On March 7th, 2024, the European Commission (EC) began enforcing the Digital Markets Act (DMA), one of the most sweeping antitrust policies for Big Tech to date. Yet despite the broad scope covered under the legislation, the market reaction was relatively muted. This suggests a belief that the companies’ operational changes proposed to comply…

Antitrust Anxiety Part 2

Antitrust Anxiety Part 2

7 min readRevisiting Big Tech’s Legal and Regulatory Challenges Through an era of unprecedented volatility, driven by a pandemic, war, and bank failures, Big Tech legislation has remained a constant. Almost two years ago, we published our blog Antitrust Anxiety: The Long Road to Big Tech Reform that explored lawsuits against Big Tech, pending legislation, and some…

Antitrust Anxiety: The Long Road to Big Tech Reform

Antitrust Anxiety: The Long Road to Big Tech Reform

6 min readCo-authored by: Alexander Goldman In June of 2019 the House Committee on the Judiciary launched an investigation into whether Silicon Valley had fallen under the grip of a few large gatekeepers that have come to control key areas of e-commerce. A sixteen-month examination of key players’ market dominance, primarily focusing on Apple’s, Google’s, Amazon’s, and…