Aug 13, 2018 Document requests in EU merger cases By Thomas Wilson Luke Smith 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...
Aug 10, 2018 New Code of Best Practices for State aid procedures By Thomas Wilson On 16 July 2018, the EU Commission (EC) adopted its “Code of Best Practices for the conduct of State aid control procedure” (Best...
Jul 30, 2018 Altice - Commission guidance on gun-jumping By Thomas Wilson Gun-jumping relates to the pre-mature implementation of a transaction prior to obtaining clearance from the relevant competition...
Jun 04, 2018 EY / KPMG - The ECJ provides welcome guidance on the stand-still obligation in mergers By Thomas Wilson 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...
Jan 29, 2018 Antitrust deal risks in 2018 By Thomas Wilson As authorities worldwide step up enforcement of their merger control rules, companies planning deals in 2018 must pay even closer...
Jan 18, 2018 AG Wahl in EY/KPMG - the latest on gun-jumping By Thomas Wilson Most merger control regimes provide for so-called stand-still obligations, i.e. the parties cannot implement the transaction until the...
Nov 16, 2017 Cooperation and information exchange: innovating in a connected world By Thomas Wilson The new digital economy will involve significant cooperation between competitors and data sharing / pooling to a much larger extent than...
Oct 03, 2017 Document disclosure in international antitrust investigations By Thomas Wilson The approach to access to file and who can receive what information can deviate by jurisdiction which can be particularly relevant in...