After months of waiting, the UK government has now introduced into Parliament the text of the hotly anticipated Digital Markets,...
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The European Court of Justice (CJEU) handed down its judgment in Towercast on 16 March 2023, confirming Advocate General Juliane Kokott’s...
The question of how best to capture and test non-reportable acquisitions that are nonetheless deemed as meriting review is one the...
Only 20 months after the ink dried on Germany’s Competition Digitisation Act, the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate...
This isn’t the first time we’ve written about this US-focused transaction in the innovative markets for next generation gene sequencing...
Alongside China’s new Anti-Monopoly Law (the New AML, see our client briefing on the New AML here), which enters into force on 1 August...
On 30 June 2022, the three institutions of the European Union (the Commission, the Parliament and the Council) announced their political...
The UK Government’s extensive reforms to the competition and consumer law regimes follow a lengthy period of debate and consultation on...
On 26 June, the European Commission launched a public consultation on its Market Definition Notice. The public consultation forms an...
Gun-jumping relates to the pre-mature implementation of a transaction prior to obtaining clearance from the relevant competition...
Speed readOn 31 May 2018, the EU’s Court of Justice (ECJ) gave judgment in the EY / KPMG case on whether the EU suspension obligation was...
With complex merger reviews now taking 6-15 months, buyers can face lengthy periods between signing and closing, when they bear...