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The Year Ahead for M&A Regulation in Brussels - BCLP’s Top 5 Things to Watch in 2024

2024 is shaping up to be a year of significant change in Brussels. European Parliamentary elections in June will be followed by the appointment of a new Commission in the autumn....more

The year ahead in Brussels - the European Commission’s expanding scrutiny of M&A

As we enter 2023, the European Commission is redoubling its efforts to scrutinise transactions on a variety of bases. The focus has been on the digital sector for some time, but the impact of the Commission’s expanding...more

European Commission publishes draft competitor collaboration block exemptions and guidance

The European Commission (“EC”) is consulting on new rules for collaborations between competitors by inviting comments on two draft Horizontal Block Exemption Regulations on Specialisation and R&D (“HBERs”) and accompanying...more

EU/UK Merger Control - Five Trends to Watch in 2022

2022 is shaping up to be another year of significant merger control and foreign direct investment (“FDI”) developments. The use of Article 22 of the EU Merger Regulation (“EUMR”) might jeopardise the European Commission’s...more

Foreign Subsidies under the European Commission’s Microscope - State subsidised M&A buyers, public procurement bidders to be...

The European Commission’s June 2020 White Paper outlined its initial plans for a subsidies regime. The Commission has now developed these plans in its proposals for a new regulation....more

Safety net or overreach? The European Commission’s new policy on Member State merger referrals

In 2020, European Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager announced a new policy, under which the Commission will entertain requests from Member States to review mergers that do not meet the notification thresholds for...more

The European Commission Goes Big Against Big Tech

On 15 December 2020, the European Commission released two much anticipated proposals for new regulations governing conduct in the digital space – the Digital Markets Act (“DMA”) and the Digital Services Act (“DSA”).  These...more

EU M&A Regulation is getting tougher – what you need to know in 2020 and beyond

The COVID-19 pandemic has made 2020 a difficult year for many companies looking to do deals. Competition agencies and other government regulators have in many cases slowed down their timeframes or even refused to accept...more

EU merger judicial review: where are we now after 02/Three?

For almost as long as EU merger control has existed, scholars and practitioners have discussed and debated the European Commission’s (EC) split roles as investigator, prosecutor, judge, and jury under the EU Merger Regulation...more

Competition law in the time of COVID

The global COVID-19 pandemic is placing an unprecedented strain on healthcare systems around the world. At the same time, the knock on effects of the pandemic are hitting businesses and public authorities hard....more

The Year Ahead in EU Merger Control: Five Key Trends to Watch

The dawn of a new year provides a great opportunity to take stock of where EU merger control might go in the next year. In this blog, we outline what we consider to be five key trends to watch out for in EU merger control in...more

European Parliament delays the start of the von der Leyen Commission

The European Parliament blocked the appointment of three of President-elect Ursula von Der Leyen’s Commissioners-designate, causing a delayed start for her Commission. While rejections and delay are not unusual, the...more

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