23 Apr, 2024 Updating the UK national security and investment regime By Alastair Mordaunt Sarah Jensen Iona Crawford Reforms to “fine tune” the system – with more opportunities ahead for stakeholders to help make the regime as pro-business as possible A...
08 Apr, 2024 Setback for the European Commission’s power to review non-notifiable transactions By Paul van den Berg Merit Olthoff Gian Luca Zampa Rikki Haria Tuna Tanik Jan Jeram Riccardo Fadiga +4 more... Show less On 21 March 2024, Advocate General (AG) Nicholas Emiliou recommended setting aside the General Court (GC) judgment in Illumina/Grail,...
21 Mar, 2024 Italian below-thresholds merger review: taking stock of the first transactions “called-in” – it’s getting crowded there By Gian Luca Zampa Ermelinda Spinelli Alessandro Di Giò Cecilia Carli Ignazio Pinzuti Ansolini +2 more... Show less Approximately one year and a half has elapsed since the introduction of the power by the Italian Antitrust Authority (IAA) to “call-in”...
29 Jan, 2024 China revises its merger control filing thresholds for the first time By Ninette Dodoo Hazel Yin Wenting Ge Xiaopeng Lai +1 more... Show less China’s State Council has published its Regulation on the Notification Thresholds for Concentrations between Undertakings ('2024...
26 Jan, 2024 German taxation of business relationships with Russia – recent developments and outlook for 2024 By Christian Sistermann Moritz Lehmann As expected, Russia has now officially become a “non-cooperative jurisdiction” for the purposes of the German Tax Haven Defence Act...
24 Jan, 2024 FDI Screening: EU Commission Unveils Draft Regulation To Revamp Europe’s FDI Screening Landscape By Juliane Hilf Alvaro Iza Petya Katsarska Thomas Lübbig Alastair Mordaunt Tone Oeyen Natalie Pettinger Kearney Frank Röhling Uwe Salaschek Ermelinda Spinelli Paul van den Berg Matthias Wahls +9 more... Show less On 24 January 2024, the European Commission (Commission) presented five new initiatives to advance “European economic security”. One of...
22 Jan, 2024 Sponsor activity in real assets in 2024 By Richard Johnson Jenny McIvor Alon Gordon Richard Thexton Patrick Ko Alexander Watt Victoria Hills Roger Schofield +5 more... Show less 2023 was generally a challenging year for M&A globally as dealmakers battled inflation, rising interest rates and political uncertainty...
08 Dec, 2023 Not over yet: UK DMCC Bill enters the House of Lords with some key questions still up for debate By Sharon Malhi Rikki Haria Sarah Jensen Martin Dickson Abigail Legge Milo Noone +3 more... Show less The Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill (the Bill) is still expected to come into force in Autumn 2024. Although the overall...
21 Nov, 2023 UK national security screening in the political crosshairs By Iona Crawford Sarah Jensen Michele Davis Alastair Mordaunt +1 more... Show less UK Conservative Government looks at refining the NSI regime – but, ahead of a 2024 election, Labour objects to any watering down On 13...
07 Nov, 2023 German Real Estate Transfer Tax – the uncertainty arising from new guidance on the attribution of real estate assets in shareholding structures By Martin Schiessl Tanja Walter-Yadegardjam Sebastian Jung Christian Schmidt Alina Paschke +2 more... Show less The Finance Ministries of the Federal States have recently released harmonised decrees (dated 16 October 2023) providing guidance on the...
21 Aug, 2023 Private M&A: Equity consideration transactions - Enhanced due diligence, more extensive warranties and alternative risk allocation By Gaia Pattyn The past eighteen months have seen a steady increase in sellers accepting consideration other than cash in private M&A transactions....
17 Jul, 2023 Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) screening mechanisms must respect fundamental freedoms: A Case built on Clay, Sand (and Gravel) By Thomas Lübbig Uwe Salaschek Matthias Wahls Weak cases sometimes make good law. On 13 July, the ECJ in Case C-106/22 held that: Except in specific circumstances, the EU FDI...