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...
Jul 17, 2024 Distressed carve-outs: great risks, great opportunities By Stefan Bajohr Franz Aleth Buying parts of a distressed company may offer great opportunities for buyers. When a company is struggling but not yet insolvent,...
May 01, 2024 New mobility – key issues to consider By Juliane Hilf Pascal Cuche Sascha Arnold Jonas Köster Guillemette Burgala Fedor Teselkin Sara Barin Mesut Korkmaz +5 more... Show less Mobility without CO2 emissions Reducing CO2 emissions from the transport sector is one of the key ambitions of policy makers – not just...
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 30, 2024 Clean hydrogen – what you need to know By Ulrich Scholz Pascal Cuche Tanguy Bardet Andreas Ruthemeyer James Chapman Olivier Rogivue Hendrik Wessling Louise Bragard +5 more... Show less Opportunities and risks of a clean hydrogen economy Clean hydrogen and its derivatives are widely seen as key enablers for the...
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 26, 2024 German taxation of business relationships with Russia – recent developments and outlook for 2024 By Christian Sistermann Moritz Lehmann As expected, Russia has now officially become a “non-cooperative jurisdiction” for the purposes of the German Tax Haven Defence Act...
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...