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Google overturns EU fine for AdSense abuse

By Nicholas Hirst and Lewis Crofts
  • 18 Sep 2024 09:00
  • 18 Sep 2024 09:00
Google has scored a victory at the EU courts, with judges scrapping a 2019 fine imposed for anticompetitive contracts related to online advertising.
The EU’s lower-tier General Court said investigators had failed to properly assess the clauses in Google's contracts that were allegedly abusive, including whether the clauses actually locked-in

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Nicholas Hirst

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Nicholas covers EU merger review and antitrust investigations for Mlex in Brussels. He previously wrote about EU affairs for Politico Europe, European Voice and PaRR. After earning an LLM in European law from the College of Europe in Bruges, he spent a year working in the competition practice of a leading competition law firm in Brussels 2009-10. He graduated in modern European languages from Oxford University in 2006.

Lewis Crofts

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Lewis leads MLex's editorial strategy, content direction, quality and development. He has a reputation for breaking stories and providing analysis on complex legal disputes before regulators and courts around the globe. He has also developed MLex's unrivalled coverage of competition policy, litigation, regulation, Brexit and international investigations.

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