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ECJ Advocate General proposes that non-reportable transactions could be caught by abuse of dominance rules

Advocate General Juliane Kokott has proposed that the EU Court of Justice should find that competition authorities have the power to apply Article 102 TFEU to corporate transactions that are not reportable, and test under...more

Lessons from the EU General Court’s recent rejections of two appeals of merger prohibitions (Wieland, Thyssenkrupp)

On 18 May and 22 June 2022, the EU General Court upheld two European Commission prohibition decisions. Both judgments endorsed the European Commission's assessment of the mergers at issue, recognising a broad margin of...more

French Competition Authority decides rare failing firm defence case

The French Competition Authority ("FCA") has unconditionally authorized the acquisition of furniture retailer Conforama by Mobilux under the failing firm defence ("FFD").   On 8 July 2019, Mobilux group ("Mobilux")...more

Gun-jumping – The French Competition Authority fines COFEPP for failure to notify and completing the transaction before clearance

The French Competition Authority ("FCA") fines a company for gun-jumping in a case relating to a progressive takeover and de facto control - On 12 April 2022, the FCA fined the Compagnie Financière Européenne de Prises de...more

Global merger control: Navigating stormy seas

There have been a number of developments in merger control in 2020 and Q1 2021. Some are related to the repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic, while others are borne out of the ambitions and changes sought by individual...more

Catch-22: The European Commission Keeps Broadening Merger Control Intervention Powers and Gives a Glimpse of The Future

A recent speech1 by the European Commission's (the Commission) Commissioner for Competition Margrethe Vestager (the Commissioner), on the 30th anniversary of the EU Merger Regulation (EUMR), praised it as having created "a...more

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