Mergers

In a press release dated 3 July 2015, Competition Commission of India (CCI) has clarified the scope of amendments made to the Regulations relating to Combinations. The amendments touch upon several…

Mark Katz and Jim Dinning, Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP, Toronto, Canada This Note provides an overview of the notification requirements that apply to certain mergers, acquisitions and other…

The Council of Ministers of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa ("COMESA") has adopted an amendment to the COMESA Competition Rules on the Determination of Merger Notification…

In early November 2014 the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine made a statement, announcing that it was going to reconsider its position on the establishment of VimpelCom Ltd., which led to…

In an earlier post, of 2 December 2014, in which I reviewed the Competition and Markets Authority’s (“CMA”) draft annual plan for 2015/2016, I observed that (as of that date) the CMA had not, since…

The Competition and Markets Authority (“CMA”) has recently published its draft Annual Plan for 2015/2016, its second year of operation after assuming the functions of the Competition Commission and…

General overview of the key merger control regimes in Canada Competition Act Canada’s Competition Act (the Act) authorises the Commissioner of Competition (the Commissioner) to challenge merger…

The recent practice of the President of the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection (the "OCCP") shows that conditional clearance decisions are becoming more common. In 2014, the OCCP issued…

Just over a year ago, I wrote (rather extensively) on the European Commission's public consultation entitled “Towards more effective EU Merger Control” in which the Commission proposed to (i) expand…