Fierce Competition Podcast | Below-Threshold Mergers: Global Antitrust Scrutiny
In March 2025, the Beijing Intellectual Property Court issued a landmark ruling—the first case in which a filing party challenged a merger decision by the State Administration for Market Regulation (“SAMR”) through judicial...more
On January 26, 2024, the State Council of China adopted new merger filing thresholds by promulgating the amended Provisions of the State Council on Thresholds for Prior Notification of Concentration of Undertakings (the...more
- On April 16, 2020, the Chinese competition authority finally announced its conditional approval of Nvidia’s $6.9 billion acquisition of Mellanox. - The Chinese SAMR approved the acquisition after a yearlong investigation...more
In March 2018, China’s State Council announced the establishment of a unified market regulator, the State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR), which now is responsible for all antitrust enforcement in China....more