By Kelley Chittenden
Google recently responded to the European Commission’s formal
antitrust charges with a 150-page rejection defending its
comparison-shopping service. The European antitrust chief, Margrethe Vestager,
filed charges last April accusing Google of systematically favoring its own
search results. Google General Counsel Kent Walker summarized the company’s
defense in an August 27th blog
post, arguing the regulators “are
wrong as a matter of fact, law, and economics.” The European Commission will
now review Google’s response before making a final decision, which could be a
fine of up to ten percent of Google’s annual revenue. In the meantime, Avisa
Partners and Hausfeld
& Co LLP are lining up clients through the Google Redress &
Integrity Platform (GRIP)
to pursue further cases in the event Google loses the case.
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