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Merger Control
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The CLS Blue Sky Blog
Skadden Discusses Proposed UK Reforms to Merger Process
By Bill Batchelor, Aurora Luoma
On November 20, 2023, the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced proposed reforms to its in-depth merger control review process (the phase 2 review) that seek to provide more opportunities for…
Cleary Antitrust Watch
European Court of Justice Confirms Altice’s Gun-Jumping Violation
By Christopher J. Cook, Benjamin Grimm
On November 9, 2023, the European Court of Justice dismissed, on most grounds, [1] Altice’s appeal against the General Court’s judgment[2] upholding the European Commission’s decision, in 2018,[3] to fine…
Competition Law
CCI’s Draft (Combinations) Regulations: Key Takeaways
By Avaantika Kakkar, Vijay Pratap Singh Chauhan, Dhruv Rajain, kaustav kundu, Kirthi Srinivas
The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has published the draft CCI (Combinations) Regulations, 2023 (Draft M&A Regulations) on 5 September 2023 and has invited stakeholder comments, to be submitted by…
Competition chronicle
Buyer Beware! Aggressive Competition Watchdogs Trying to Block More International Deals – a cautionary tale from the Illumina-GRAIL merger challenge
By John Pecman, Huy Do, Robin Spillette
In an unprecedented intervention by the European Commission (EC), the EC recently asserted jurisdiction over and challenged a United States-based merger that falls below the filing thresholds of the EC…
Cleary Antitrust Watch
European Commission asserts merger control jurisdiction over non-reportable deals for first time after Illumina/Grail
By Robbert Snelders, Thomas Graf, Andris Rimsa, Basak Arslan, Sophia Antoniou
On August 17, 2023, the European Commission (EC) decided to review Qualcomm's acquisition of the Israeli-based semiconductor company Autotalks, even though the deal was not reportable at EU or Member…
Blog of Reason
FTC Proposes Dramatic Changes to HSR Premerger Filings, as Agencies Unveil New Merger Guidelines
By Benjamin H. Diessel, Adam Silverman, Robert Langer, Wiggin and Dana
On October 10, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) announced its final rules with respect to Premerger Notification under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvement Act of 1976 (as amended) (“HSR”). The final…
Cleary Antitrust Watch
CAT Upholds CMA’s Rejection of Dual-Track Remedy Proposal
By Paul Gilbert, Chrishan Raja, John Kwan, Ben Taggart
On 10 July 2023, the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) dismissed an appeal by Canadian software company Dye & Durham’s (D&D) against a decision of the Competition and Markets Authority…
The Antitrust Attorney Blog
The FTC Keeps Digging Its Own Grave: Microsoft-Activision Merger Deal Can Move Ahead Says Federal Judge in California
By Bona Law PC
Authors: Steve Cernak and Luis Blanquez This week a federal judge in California denied a preliminary injunction to block Microsoft’s $68.7 billion merger with Activision Blizzard Inc. Both parties may…
Antitrust Advocate
Another Setback for the FTC in Microsoft and Activision Blizzard Proposed Merger
By Alyse Stach, Kayley Sullivan
This past Tuesday, July 11, a federal judge ruled against the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) request to the District Court of Northern California to issue a preliminary injunction against Microsoft’s…
Cleary Antitrust Watch
CK Telecoms (Case C-376/20): Call for Return to Orthodoxy Accepted by the Court of Justice
By Elena Chutrova, Jon Polanec, John Kwan, Rita Pimentel Torres
On July 13, 2023, the Court of Justice delivered its much anticipated judgment in Commission v. CK Telecoms,[1] setting aside the General Court’s landmark judgment that annulled the Commission’s 2016…