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In November 2024, the European Commission (EC) published an extensive study on so-called ‘killer acquisitions’ in the pharma sector,...
Freshfields Transactions
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On Tuesday 18 March, a draft legislative Act was published and opened up for public consultation (see here). Dutch Parliament has...
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On 12 March, the Competition & Markets Authority (CMA) kicked off the next round of outreach in its “evolving approach to merger...
In a recent post, we shared details of the 2025 edition of Getting the Deal Through: Merger Control, now called Panoramic: Merger...
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has definitively rejected the European Commission’s (Commission) novel and broad interpretation of...
In its widely commented decision no. 24-D-05, the French Competition Authority (FCA) ruled that mergers below the thresholds - in this...
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This article was first published by Global Competition Review on 25 April 2024. Following a public consultation launched in November...
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Reforms to “fine tune” the system – with more opportunities ahead for stakeholders to help make the regime as pro-business as possible A...
On 21 March 2024, Advocate General (AG) Nicholas Emiliou recommended setting aside the General Court (GC) judgment in Illumina/Grail,...
Approximately one year and a half has elapsed since the introduction of the power by the Italian Antitrust Authority (IAA) to “call-in”...
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China’s State Council has published its Regulation on the Notification Thresholds for Concentrations between Undertakings ('2024...
On 24 January 2024, the European Commission (Commission) presented five new initiatives to advance “European economic security”. One of...