08 Apr, 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,...
21 Mar, 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”...
29 Jan, 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...
24 Jan, 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...
10 Oct, 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...
14 Sep, 2023 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...
27 Apr, 2023 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...
24 Apr, 2023 EU merger control simplification package: cutting or increasing the red tape? By Felix Roscam Abbing Jan Jeram Paul van den Berg Joanna Goyder +1 more... Show less In brief On 20 April, the European Commission (Commission) adopted a merger control simplification package including a revised...
07 Feb, 2023 EU foreign subsidy control – consultation on implementing rules By Merit Olthoff Paul van den Berg Sarah Erne Joanna Goyder Malte Symann Christopher Sickinger +3 more... Show less Yesterday the European Commission put out for consultation a draft Implementing Regulation on proceedings pursuant to the Foreign...
06 Jan, 2023 New Italian power to call in below-threshold mergers – guidance now published By Gian Luca Zampa Alessandro Di Giò Gabriele Maria Polito The new IAA’s power to review concentrations below thresholds As anticipated in one of our previous blog posts, the “2021 Competition...
14 Nov, 2022 Expanding the merger control toolkit - Is this the end of non-reportable M&A for firms that are deemed dominant? By Thomas Lübbig Kasia Bojarojc Daniel Wylde Justin Chen Sarah Mitchell +2 more... Show less The question of how best to capture and test non-reportable acquisitions that are nonetheless deemed as meriting review is one the...
17 Oct, 2022 Merger control moves up a gear By Jan Jeram Thomas McGrath Merit Olthoff Ermelinda Spinelli Jan Rybnicek +2 more... Show less In a post last week, we shared details of the 2023 edition of Getting the Deal Through: Merger Control, which covers the basic principles...