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EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation: European Commission Launches Consultation on Guidelines

Jones Day on 3/12/2025

The European Commission seeks stakeholders' views on the guidelines for the application of the Foreign Subsidies Regulation ("FSR")....more

EU Court Holds Back Expansion of Antitrust Reviews to Non-Reportable Transactions

Jones Day on 9/12/2024

The Situation: To address a perceived enforcement gap, the European Commission ("EC") has issued guidelines expanding the types of non-reportable transactions subject to its "upward referral mechanism," which permits EU...more

Trends and Enforcement Priorities from the 2024 ABA Antitrust Spring Meeting

Mayer Brown on 4/22/2024

Last week, a Mayer Brown team joined over 4,000 lawyers from around the globe—including top enforcers from the US Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”), Department of Justice (“DOJ”), and the European Union (“EU”)—to discuss new...more

Unlocking Digital Infrastructure: European Market Drivers and Trends

Latham & Watkins LLP on 4/8/2024

M&A activity in the digital infrastructure sector has been growing year-on-year in Europe, with deal counts and cumulative deal values highlighting the resilience of this asset class. 2024 is likely set to hit a new peak of...more

Reform of the EU Foreign Direct Investment Screening Regulation – How might M&A Transactions be impacted?

Mayer Brown on 3/27/2024

On 24 January 2024, the European Commission (“Commission”) unveiled its proposals to reform the current EU Foreign Direct Investment Screening Regulation 2019/452 (“FDI Screening Regulation”). This forms part of a wider...more

European Commission’s Revised Guidance on Market Definition Will Make It Easier to Allege Mergers Will “Significantly Impede...

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP on 2/14/2024

The European Commission’s (“Commission”) substantially revised Market Definition Notice (“Revised Notice”) will make it significantly easier for it to allege that mergers and other transactions (“mergers”) are likely to...more

Europe Increasingly Turns to Special Committees in Transactions Involving a Controlling Shareholder

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 12/18/2023

A takeover offer from a controlling shareholder presents a challenge to boards of directors who are tasked with protecting minority shareholders, particularly where some of the directors on the board may have relationships or...more

Antitrust in focus - July 2023

A&O Shearman on 8/2/2023

European Commission’s record gun-jumping fine on Illumina serves as warning to merging parties - The European Commission (EC) has imposed a fine of around EUR432 million on genomics company Illumina for closing its...more

EU Adopts Reporting Requirements for Transactions and Public Bids Under the Foreign Subsidies Regulation

Jones Day on 7/19/2023

In Short - The Situation: On July 10, 2023, the European Commission ("EC") adopted the Implementing Regulation ("IR") and the corresponding notification forms (Form FS-CO and Form FS-PP), which specify the information and...more

Comunicazione Della Commissione Sugli Orientamenti Relativi Alla Procedura Di Vendita Alle Condizioni Migliori Di Crediti...

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP on 12/7/2022

In data 21 ottobre 2022 è stata pubblicata la comunicazione della Commissione Europea del 21 ottobre 2022 concernente gli orientamenti relativi alla procedura di vendita alle condizioni migliori di crediti deteriorati sui...more

2021 Transactional Year in Review and 2022 Forecast: Trends in European Public M&A

Jones Day on 2/3/2022

Europe saw a major increase in public M&A activity in 2021, fueled by cheap money and optimism as economies started to emerge from the worst effects of the pandemic. In particular, PE purchasers with dry powder to deploy and...more

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

BCLP on 5/11/2021

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

New Rules: German government passes far-reaching expansion of foreign investment control

Hogan Lovells on 4/30/2021

Regulators are becoming increasingly active in imposing measures on deals or prohibiting them altogether under FDI rules – with prohibitions happening in the EU’s largest economies Germany, France, and Italy in the past...more

Takeover Panel response statement (2020/1): conditions to offers and the offer timetable

Hogan Lovells on 4/7/2021

The Takeover Panel has just published its response statement (2020/1) making important changes to the Takeover Code regarding offer conditionality and timetable. They take effect on 5 July 2021 and will apply in relation to...more

Public Takeovers in Germany

Hogan Lovells on 3/15/2021

Welcome to the fourth edition of our “Public Takeovers in Germany” newsletter. It provides an overview of public takeovers carried out in Germany in 2020 under the German Securities Acquisition and Takeover Act (WpÜG) and of...more

Corporate Parents, Beware in France: One Can Be Liable for Another’s Doing

Morgan Lewis on 3/12/2021

France’s highest Court (Cour de Cassation) recently ruled that an acquiring entity, in this case Iron Mountain, could be found liable for violations committed by the target, here Recall France, before the transaction. ...more

MORE, MORE, MORE! German government plans another far-reaching expansion of foreign investment control

Hogan Lovells on 1/26/2021

Foreign investment control has become a key factor in M&A deals and 2020 was a particularly eventful year. A large number of countries have recently introduced foreign investment control regimes (or tightened their existing...more

"Less is more" – Germany eases merger control requirements

Hogan Lovells on 1/18/2021

On 14 January, the German Parliament passed far-reaching amendments of German antitrust law, the Act against Restraints of Competition (ARC), which also affect merger control. The amendment, also known as the "German...more

Financial Daily Dose 12.14.2020 | Top Story: AstraZeneca Acquires Alexion in $39 Billion Push into Immunology

Robins Kaplan LLP on 12/14/2020

Drugmaker AstraZeneca agreed on Saturday to buy biopharma company Alexion for $39 billion in cash and stock. In the deal—the “biggest by a health care company this year”—will help AstraZeneca expand into the immunology...more

Financial Daily Dose 12.9.2020 | Top Story: DoorDash Makes Public Trading Debut North of $100/share

Robins Kaplan LLP on 12/9/2020

DoorDash is entering the public markets fray today with hopes of “cash[ing] in on the frenzy in initial public offerings” of late. The food-delivery company is expected to price shares “at the high end of or above its...more

Updates to the CMA’s Merger Guidance Documents (CMA2 and CMA56) Following Brexit

Morgan Lewis on 11/12/2020

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) on 6 November published draft updates to two of its merger guidance documents (CMA2 and CMA56) in preparation for the end of the Brexit Transition Period on 31 December 2020....more

Sovereign Wealth Funds Update: A Buyers’ Opportunity – the European Market and Key Considerations for Distressed M&A Transactions

Morgan Lewis on 10/8/2020

Economic turmoil as a result of political instability and from the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, together with unallocated capital and low interest rates, means that non-core, but potentially profitable, operations or...more

UK Amends Enterprise Act 2002 To Protect Businesses Critical to Addressing Public Health Emergencies, Extends Powers To Protect...

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 6/26/2020

In recent months, European states have raced to implement protections against opportunistic acquisitions of key local businesses by foreign buyers amid the economic disruption caused by the spread of COVID-19. ...more

Next steps towards tighter German Foreign Investment Control rules passed

Hogan Lovells on 6/20/2020

For M&A transactions in Germany and beyond, Foreign Investment Control screenings have become an indispensable standard element to assess when structuring deals and planning for regulatory review. Similarly to merger control,...more

Acquisition of businesses in financial difficulty as a result of COVID-19: Do buyers still need to wait for prior...

Hogan Lovells on 5/4/2020

In the wake of the COVID-19 crisis, many companies will be facing significant financial difficulties for which the only viable solution to remain a going concern will be acquisition by another company. It is safe to predict...more

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