Sep 23, 2024 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...
Sep 05, 2024 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...
Jul 31, 2024 Does the FCA really want to consider mergers below thresholds from an antitrust perspective? By Alice Cabourdin Jérôme Philippe In its widely commented decision no. 24-D-05, the French Competition Authority (FCA) ruled that mergers below the thresholds - in this...
Apr 30, 2024 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...
Apr 23, 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...
Apr 08, 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,...
Mar 21, 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”...
Jan 29, 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...
Jan 24, 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...
Dec 08, 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...
Nov 21, 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...
Oct 10, 2023 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...