Takeaways For the first time in more than two decades, HSR filing fees and fee tiers will be adjusted. The filing fees will range from $30,000 to $2.25 million and apply to HSR notifications filed on or after February 27, 2023…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Commercial Law & Contracts, Mergers & Acquisitions
In a judgment dated 13 July 2022 (T-227/21), the General Court of the European Union (the “General Court” or the “Court”) upheld the decision of the European Commission (the “Commission”) whereby the latter accepted to assert…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Commercial Law & Contracts, Mergers & Acquisitions
Following a trend towards protectionism that seems quite fashionable in many jurisdictions globally those days, the European Commission proposed, on 5 May 2021, a regulation on foreign subsidies distorting the internal market…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Commercial Law & Contracts, International Law & Trade
After the various measures taken by countries, international organizations and companies to pressure Russia to stop its aggression against Ukraine, it is now the turn of the antitrust enforcers of the European Competition…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Commercial Law & Contracts, International Law & Trade
The Federal Trade Commission announced revised Hart-Scott-Rodino (“HSR”) filing thresholds on January 24, 2022, as required by the HSR Act, based on the change in the US gross national product. The new minimum HSR “Size of…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Commercial Law & Contracts, Mergers & Acquisitions
The European Commission (“Commission”) is expanding its jurisdiction over transactions by encouraging national competition authorities (“NCAs”) of the EU Member States to ‘refer’ certain transactions to it that fall below the…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts, International Law & Trade, Mergers & Acquisitions
New enforcement tool for the German Federal Cartel Office in the control of abusive behavior of companies with a paramount cross-market significance for competition..…
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The Federal Trade Commission has announced new HSR thresholds for 2021, which are lower than the existing thresholds. The thresholds typically increase year-over-year, but are decreasing in 2021 from $94 million to $92 million,…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Commercial Law & Contracts, Mergers & Acquisitions
The German Government is about to tighten the control of foreign direct investments (FDI) in German companies—again! The suggested changes might impede or at least delay non-EU (in reality mainly U.S.…) investments in German…
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/ International Law & Trade
In a Nutshell -
What’s new?
Significantly increased turnover thresholds for German merger control…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts, Mergers & Acquisitions
The debate about competition issues and unfair practices specific to online platforms and the appropriate tools to tackle them was taken a step further by the European Commission (‘Commission’), which presented two legislative…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, International Law & Trade, Science, Computers, & Technology
SEP licensing in supply chains: ECJ gets opportunity for a major trend-setting decision -
In a decision of November 26, 2020 in a patent infringement case of Nokia Technologies Oy against Daimler AG, the Düsseldorf Regional…
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/ Civil Procedure, Intellectual Property, Science, Computers, & Technology
The EU State Aid regime has long protected the EU internal market from anti-competitive subsidies granted by EU Member States. On 17 June 2020, the European Commission published a White Paper that proposes a new set of tools…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Commercial Law & Contracts, Finance & Banking, International Law & Trade, Mergers & Acquisitions
Last month, Colorado Governor Jared Polis signed a law repealing a provision of the Colorado Antitrust Act that prohibited challenging a merger under state law where the federal antitrust agencies did not also challenge the…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Commercial Law & Contracts, Consumer Protection, Mergers & Acquisitions
In a welcomed attempt to align their approaches, the antitrust enforcers of the European Competition Network (ECN) have published a brief joint statement on the application of competition law during the Covid-19 crisis…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Consumer Protection, Health, International Law & Trade, Mergers & Acquisitions
