How Is Competition Law Adapting to Digital Markets and AI?

Competition and antitrust lawyers from India, Armenia and Nigeria compare how regulators are reshaping enforcement for digital platforms, AI and concentrated markets. The through-line is the gap between rules written for large economies and the realism smaller and emerging jurisdictions need: India is testing an ex ante digital framework while widening merger and penalty rules, Armenia is strengthening expost tools and aligning with EU standards without adopting gatekeeper regulation, and Nigeria is adapting global doctrine to an informal, fast growing market through a three force enforcement framework. Recurring themes include jurisdiction over non resident platforms, proportionality of fines tied to global turnover, AI as both a tool and an object of enforcement, and how to keep regulators predictable and independent under political and geopolitical pressure.

Chapters:
0:00 Panel introductions
7:01 Question one: regulating digital markets
7:34 India: the digital competition bill, mergers and penalties
16:06 Armenia: incremental reform and the jurisdictional reach problem
20:43 Nigeria: competition architecture and the Meta case
28:22 Attention economy market definitions by big tech
31:51 Nigeria’s three force enforcement framework
34:08 Question two: AI and competition enforcement
34:41 India: AI tools in case analysis
36:06 Armenia: AI as a tool versus an object
39:48 Nigeria: infrastructure, data bias and block exemptions
43:20 Question three: politics and regulatory independence
43:57 India: economic considerations and consistency
47:00 Armenia: predictability over politics
50:17 Nigeria: geopolitical enforcement, fines and independence
55:40 Closing thoughts

Panel:
Arthur Buduryan, Legelata, Armenia
Subodh Deo, KBD Law Partners, India
Ikem Isiekwena, SCP-Law, Nigeria
Hosted by Jenny, Global Law Experts.