Document requests issued by the EU Commission (EC) have become common in complex EU merger cases. A few years ago, the EC would only ask...
Freshfields Risk & Compliance
Thomas Wilson
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Brussels, Belgium
On 16 July 2018, the EU Commission (EC) adopted its “Code of Best Practices for the conduct of State aid control procedure” (Best...
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...
As authorities worldwide step up enforcement of their merger control rules, companies planning deals in 2018 must pay even closer...
Most merger control regimes provide for so-called stand-still obligations, i.e. the parties cannot implement the transaction until the...
The new digital economy will involve significant cooperation between competitors and data sharing / pooling to a much larger extent than...
The approach to access to file and who can receive what information can deviate by jurisdiction which can be particularly relevant in...