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Merger Control
485 published works
Antitrust Alert
Dutch Competition Authority Fines Cold-Storage Companies for Exchange of Information in the Context of Merger Talks
On 23 March 2016, the Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) announced that it had fined four cold-storage firms for having put in place anticompetitive arrangements while in extended…
Antitrust Alert
Italian Competition Authority Updates Merger Control Turnover Thresholds
The Italian Competition Authority has updated its merger control turnover thresholds. Effective 14 March 2016, Section 16(1) of Law no. 287 of 10 October 1990 requires prior notification of all mergers…
Timely disclosure
Time will tell if the timing’s right: CSA adopt the most sweeping changes to the Canadian take-over bid regime in a generation
By Aaron Atkinson, Bradley Freelan
On February 25, 2016, the CSA released the final version of the long-awaited changes to the Canadian take-over bid regime. While the final rules are largely in line with the…
China Law Vision
2015 China Anti-Monopoly Annual Report
By AnJie Broad
Authored by Dr. Zhan Hao (zhanhao@anjielaw.com) and Song Ying (songying@anjielaw.com) at AnJie Law Firm I. Legislation A. Legislation Tendency Highlight In the year of 2015, China’s antitrust enforcement agencies, namely the National Development and…
Focus on Regulation
German Federal Government intends a strengthening of merger control for the sale of start-ups
By Falk Schoening, Martin Sura
In June 2015 Microsoft paid between EUR 100-200 million for the relatively unknown "6Wunderkinder GmbH" – a company which generates its revenue primarily through the operation of "Wunderlist", a to-do…
China Law Vision
Slow Down! Follow Merger Filing Procedures Step by Step
By AnJie Broad
Authored by Michael Gu (michaelgu@anjielaw.com) and Bai Chen (baichen@anjielaw.com) at AnJie Law Firm Background On 29 September 2015, the Ministry of Commerce of the People’s Republic of China (“MOFCOM”) issued four penalty decisions…
China Law Vision
Warning from MOFCOM: Second Wave of Penalties Imposed for Breaches of Concentration Notification Rules
By AnJie Broad
Authored by Dr. Zhan Hao (zhanhao@anjielaw.com) at Anjie Law Firm and Ms. Li Xiang(lixiang@anjielaw.com) On September 29th 2015, the Ministry of Commerce of the P.R.C (“MOFCOM”) published four administrative decisions on penalties for…
On Competition Law and Economics
FTC v. Steris Corp.- The FTC Fails
On May 29, 2015, the FTC filed a complaint against Steris Corporation and Synergy Health plc alleging their proposed merger would substantially lessen competition in a market that included the…
Focus on Regulation
Webcast: The Global Antitrust Corner – Circumnavigating the Merger Control World
By Antitrust, Competition, and Economic Regulation Practice
Thursday, 1 October 2015 9 am CDT / 10 am EDT / 3 pm GMT / 4 pm CET / 10 pm CST / 11 pm JST Global M&A activity…
China Law Insight
Recent developments in COMESA merger control
By King & Wood
By Cameron Firth and Rahul Saha, King & Wood Mallesons The Common Market of Eastern and Southern Africa (“COMESA”) is a supra-national organisation with 19 Member States, which are Burundi,…