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On 20 June, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced the latest raft of changes intended to refocus UK merger control. As we...
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Hot off the press The UK Government published its long awaited 10 year infrastructure plan last Thursday, 19 June. Some of the headline...
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In November 2024, the European Commission (EC) published an extensive study on so-called ‘killer acquisitions’ in the pharma sector,...
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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”...