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Thursday, April 15, 2021 The Federal Economic Competition Commission (COFECE, or the Commission) has published an update to the Merger Control Guidelines. Although there are no significant changes from the prior version, the Commission did strengthen its view to carry out a “substance-over-form” analysis when it comes to transactions requiring prior antitrust clearance in Mexico. 1 Some of the key aspects include: 1.   Not only acquisitions are reportable “concentrations.” As with competition law in other jurisdictions, Mexico’s Competition Law uses the term “concentr...

Conciliation 14 April 2021

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: From standstill to strong recovery, Covid-19 created a year of two halves for transactions in 2020, forcing buyers and sellers to adjust their tactics in the private M&A market.   Global transactions ground to a near standstill in the first half of 2020 as Covid-19 swept the world. However, there was a remarkable resurgence in activity during the second half of the year, and this has been sustained in the early days of 2021. Some commentators speculated that the economic impact of the coronavirus would lead to the return of a fully...

[co-author: Sarah Taheny] The European Commission (EC) has published new guidance on the application of Article 22 of the European Merger Regulation (EUMR) which will allow for the EC and Member States to refer transactions that do not meet existing EC or national jurisdictional thresholds for EC review. On March 26, 2021, the EC published its Staff Working Document (Working Document) on the Evaluation of Procedural and Jurisdictional Aspects of EU Merger Control, 1 the latest step in its evaluation of proposed reforms of the EUMR. 2 The EC also launched an accompanying impact assessment desi...

08 March 2021