Category: M&A and Competition

This article focuses on the increasingly intertwined relationship between antitrust and competition law and other areas of regulation and on the expanding set of national and international institutions that are examining and addressing these issues...

In the trade and investment areas we are seeing moves towards protectionism and the politicization of some aspects of antitrust and competition policy resulting in some divergence between the EU and the United States...

The Guidelines significantly expand the scope of transactions that are likely to be scrutinized by the agencies and signal the agencies’ intention to continue the recent shift to aggressive merger enforcement in the United States...

M&A is also frequently disruptive and can fail to deliver anticipated benefits if the process is not carefully managed. It is therefore imperative for CEOs to carefully evaluate various aspects before embarking on such a journey...

Because of recent legislative developments on both sides of the Atlantic, the times of fluid and smooth cooperation between the European Union (EU) and the United States are over, at least on economic, trade, competition and antitrust affairs...