Jul 26, 2024 Foreign Subsidies Regulation: The European Commission's guidance on assessing market distortions By Andreas von Bonin Merit Olthoff Paul van den Berg Fabian Bickel Justyna Smela Wolski Maxim Betivu +3 more... Show less More than one year after the EU’s Foreign Subsidies Regulation (FSR) started to apply, many elements of the EC’s substantive assessment...
Jun 11, 2024 The UK’s digital roadmap: CMA consults on draft digital markets guidance By Rikki Haria Martin Dickson Saif Gilani Within minutes of the UK Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 (the DMCC Act) receiving Royal Assent on the evening of 24...
May 24, 2024 Across the finish line in the wash-up: the DMCC Act receives Royal Assent – what happens next? By Andrew Austin Cat Greenwood-Smith Rikki Haria Sarah Jensen Patrick Teague Kate Collister Martin Dickson Aaron Green Daniel Wylde Karen Slaney Francesca Triggs Philipp Baschenhof +9 more... Show less In the final days of Parliament, the landmark UK Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 (the ‘Act’) has received Royal...
May 23, 2024 Court of Appeal Judgment – The Claim Notice Was Compliant By Ali Kirby-Harris Christina Franzese Jack Harrison In the third blog published in our series on M&A disputes, we provided five practical pointers when faced with a breach of warranty claim...
Apr 16, 2024 Tax Indemnity Claims: Complying With the Notice Provisions in ‘Full-Recourse’ and ‘W&I-Backed’ M&A Deals By Emily Szasz Laura Western Bringing a contractual claim following the successful conclusion of an M&A transaction is sometimes unavoidable. It is important to...
Feb 27, 2024 Taking stock: Four months of notifications under the EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation - More than 150 cases and one Phase II investigation By Andreas von Bonin Paul van den Berg Merit Olthoff Martin McElwee Vanessa van Weelden Fabian Bickel Maxime Riethuisen +4 more... Show less The first months of notifications under the EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation (FSR) have shown that more transactions and public...
Feb 15, 2024 European Commission adopts a revised Market Definition Notice By Lena Boucon Rory Jones Alvaro Pliego Selie James Aitken Thomas Lübbig +2 more... Show less As noted by Executive Vice-President Vestager, “if something happens every 25 years, it deserves attention.[1]” Last Friday, the European...
Jan 30, 2024 Is It a Done Deal? Breach of Warranty Claims: How to Protect Your Position By Ali Kirby-Harris Emily Tilden-Smith Charlotte Dunn Post-closing disputes are on the rise. The post-covid M&A surge led to pressurised negotiations resulting, in some cases, in less due...
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...
Jul 12, 2023 EU’s foreign subsidies regime officially kicks off – a new chapter for M&A and public procurement in the EU By Andreas von Bonin Merit Olthoff Martin McElwee Paul van den Berg Vanessa van Weelden Aytaç Çelebi Joanna Goyder +4 more... Show less On 10 July 2023, the European Commission (Commission) published the much-awaited final version of the Implementing Regulation on...
Apr 26, 2023 The wait is over: UK Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill introduced to Parliament By Sharon Malhi Michele Davis Karen Slaney Justin Chen +1 more... Show less After months of waiting, the UK government has now introduced into Parliament the text of the hotly anticipated Digital Markets,...
Mar 21, 2023 Court of Justice confirms yet another tool to tackle non-reportable M&A – but is it all bark and no bite? By Thomas Lübbig Kasia Bojarojc Daniel Wylde Justin Chen Sarah Mitchell +2 more... Show less The European Court of Justice (CJEU) handed down its judgment in Towercast on 16 March 2023, confirming Advocate General Juliane Kokott’s...