May 26, 2021 Merger control: are we witnessing a paradigm shift? By Laurent Bougard Josh Chamberlain Inspired by the Chicago School in the late sixties and seventies, the advent of the consumer welfare standard in antitrust enforcement,...
Oct 20, 2020 Getting The Deal Through – The future of merger control By Amaryllis Müller Justin Stewart-Teitelbaum Ninette Dodoo Paul van den Berg +1 more... Show less The opening chapter of the 2021 Getting The Deal Through: Merger Control publication presents a few key developments relating to the...
Mar 30, 2020 Essential Antitrust podcast series – episode 4: Lessons from the US FTC’s bid to block Evonik/PeroxyChem By Meredith Mommers Andrew Ewalt Laura Onken Jennifer Mellott Eric Mahr +2 more... Show less Until early 2020, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) had won each of the seven litigated merger challenges that it had brought since...
Feb 26, 2020 Essential Antitrust podcast series – episode 3: US spotlight on vertical mergers By Meredith Mommers Jennifer Mellott Jan Rybnicek Thomas Ensign +1 more... Show less In 2017, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) brought its first challenge against a vertical merger in 40 years in its unsuccessful suit to...
Apr 10, 2019 US Court Takes an Unusually Close Look at CVS/Aetna Merger Remedy By Jennifer Mellott Andrew Ewalt On Friday, U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon, who is presiding over the mandatory Tunney Act review of the remedy in the CVS/Aetna...
Jan 25, 2019 Competition policy and the digital economy – what to expect for M&A in 2019 By Jenny Leahy “How will history judge the choices we made?” It is with this question that EU Commissioner Margrethe Vestager opened last week’s hotly...
Jan 17, 2019 Getting deals through in 2019: planning for the unpredictable By Sarah Jensen Anyone contemplating a deal which raises competition concerns or involves a sensitive sector needs to plan ahead for heightened...
Jan 10, 2019 Hitting a Wall: How the U.S. Government Shutdown Impacts Deals By Marissa Yu Matthew Herman Paul Humphreys Peter Lyons +1 more... Show less As if there were not enough uncertainty in the markets, a partial U.S. government shutdown (that today shows little sign of speedy...
Nov 05, 2018 How can M&A failure be avoided? By Rhys Evans Sellers in M&A processes are looking for three things: value, speed and certainty. At no point since the global financial crisis has...