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UK Merger Control in 2024/25: Key Takeaways

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In FY 2024/25, UK merger control underwent significant changes, including important statutory amendments, updates to the Competition and Market Authority’s (CMA) rules and an apparent shift in focus when reviewing mergers to...more

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Saudi Arabia Responds to Investors with Revised Merger Guidelines Addressing Practical Needs

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The Saudi General Authority for Competition (GAC) continues to develop its antitrust and competition regulatory framework to bring it in line with international standards. These efforts are part of the Kingdom’s broader goal...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

2024 Insights: Corporate Trends

Global M&A Activity Endures Headwinds in 2023 and Displays Resilience Going Into 2024 - Despite market headwinds, dealmakers have looked to carveouts, spin-offs, joint ventures and other creative deal structures to engage...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Mandatory Notification Obligations Under the EU’s Foreign Subsidies Regulation Kick In: Are You Ready?

Starting today, October 12, 2023, the mandatory notification requirements under the EU’s Foreign Subsidies Regulation (FSR) apply. M&A deals involving businesses that (i) have been granted certain levels of financial support...more

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Mexico's Antitrust Authority Updates Merger Guidelines

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The Comisión Federal de Competencia's new guidelines clarify notification requirements for joint ventures and the "failing firm" defense. Newly revised merger control guidelines ("Guidelines") from the Comisión Federal de...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

China Publishes Draft Amendments to Anti-Monopoly Law

For the first time since China’s Anti-Monopoly Law (AML) came into force in 2008, the government is proposing major changes to its centerpiece antitrust legislation. On January 2, 2020, the State Administration for Market...more

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Jones Day Global Merger Control Update - April 2019

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This Jones Day Global Merger Control Update examines recent developments in merger control regimes, as well as anticipated changes to those regimes worldwide. Merger control enforcement has continued to surge around the...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

CFIUS: Inadvertent “Foreign Person” Status

Hundreds of American companies may have inadvertently become “foreign persons” for CFIUS purposes, at risk of being caught up in the Trump Administration’s restrictions on foreign investment. Many people know that the...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

The Hidden Risks of MOFCOM’s Simplified Procedure

Three years ago, China’s Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) introduced a simplified merger review procedure to reduce the review time for transactions that do not pose significant competitive or industrial policy concerns in...more

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Five Things To Know About German Merger Control

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As reported previously, German competition law was recently amended. The amendments included with the introduction of a “size of transaction”-threshold a notable change with respect to German merger control. The following is...more

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New Merger Thresholds for Italian Transactions

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The Background: On August 2, 2017, the Italian Parliament approved the Law on Market and Competition, which provided a new set of pre-merger filing thresholds. After publication of the law in the Official Gazette on August...more

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