3/14/2025 1:12:52 PM The next step in the CMA’s evolving approach to M&A By Colin Raftery James Aitken Alastair Chapman Karen Slaney +1 more... Show less On 12 March, the Competition & Markets Authority (CMA) kicked off the next round of outreach in its “evolving approach to merger...
3/10/2025 3:50:43 PM Below threshold review: ACM calls in transaction for potential abuse of dominance By Winfred Knibbeler Paul van den Berg Felix Roscam Abbing On Friday 7 March, the Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (the ACM) announced that it was investigating the acquisition of...
9/23/2024 8:01:20 AM Modernising merger control means more unpredictability By Janet Jones-Duffy Charlotte Colin-Dubuisson Ilka Oberländer Justin Stewart-Teitelbaum Vanessa van Weelden +2 more... Show less In a recent post, we shared details of the 2025 edition of Getting the Deal Through: Merger Control, now called Panoramic: Merger...
9/5/2024 9:51:15 AM Landmark reversal in Illumina/Grail: the European Commission’s power to review non-notifiable transactions curtailed By Tuna Tanik Jan Jeram Paul van den Berg Alvaro Pliego Selie Gisela Santos Laura Onken Kirsty Brown +4 more... Show less The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has definitively rejected the European Commission’s (Commission) novel and broad interpretation of...
4/30/2024 11:34:49 AM The CMA’s revised Phase 2 process – more than old wine in a new bottle? By Colin Raftery This article was first published by Global Competition Review on 25 April 2024. Following a public consultation launched in November...
4/8/2024 9:11:35 AM 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,...
3/21/2024 2:14:42 PM 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”...
1/29/2024 4:48:51 AM 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...
1/24/2024 3:45:55 PM 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...
10/10/2023 7:10:30 AM Tougher merger control enforcement – a trend here to stay? By Enrica Schaefer Conor Leavy Rikki Haria Jenny Leahy Jennifer Mellott +2 more... Show less The 2024 edition of Getting the Deal Through: Merger Control has been published. This annual overview of global merger control has been...
9/14/2023 1:58:28 PM Getting the Deal Through Merger Control 2024 By Thomas Janssens Lexology Getting The Deal Through: Merger Control – 2024 edition now out The latest edition of Lexology Getting the Deal Through: Merger...
4/27/2023 4:06:05 AM Vietnam's merger control process – finding the right balance By Hoang Ha An Alastair Mordaunt Charles Tay Laurent Bougard +1 more... Show less It has been more than two years since Vietnam’s merger control regime became operational. A number of practices by the Vietnam...