Clifford Chance
China amends guidelines on merger notification
13 June 2014
On 6 June 2014, the Anti-Monopoly Bureau (AMB) of the Ministry of Commerce
of China (MOFCOM) issued the amended Guidelines on Notification of
Concentrations of Undertakings (Amended Guidelines). The Amended
Guidelines replace an earlier set of guidelines by the same name issued in
2009. It contains 30 articles that seek to clarify questions frequently raised by
companies and practitioners on the China merger notification process. These
questions mainly relate to the concept of control, calculation of turnover and the
conduct of pre-consultation meetings with AMB.
