The GCR Guide to Life Sciences – Merger control: Procedural issues

Miranda Cole, Julien Haverals and Emma Clarke of our Brussels/ London offices are the authors of a chapter on procedural issues in merger control that has been published in the third edition of the Global Competition Review’s The Guide to Life Sciences. This covers a number of significant procedural developments that have affected merger review of life sciences transactions.

The chapter discusses

• the EC’s new approach to Article 22 referrals and the position of the courts,
• the entry into force of the Merger Simplification Package,
• the EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation,
• the application of the transaction value thresholds in Germany and Austria,
• recent developments in merger control in Luxembourg, Italy, Spain and Belgium, and
• merger review in the UK.

An extract from Global Competition Review’s The Guide to Life Sciences, can be accessed here, provided with the kind permission of the publishers, Global Competition Review.

The whole publication is available here.