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Das Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Technologie (BMWi) hat am 10. November 2011 den Entwurf der 8. GWB-Novelle veröffentlicht. Der Entwurf basiert auf dem im August 2011 vorgestellten Eckpunktepapier des BMWi, welches die wettbewerbspolitischen...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has become the first Court of Appeals to address information exchanges in the pre-transaction context. In the long-awaited Omnicare, Inc. v. UnitedHealth Group, Inc., the Seventh Circuit examined, among other topics,...

Headlines in this issue: HOT TOPICS EU: Commission adopts new guidelines for cooperation between competitors. SUPERMARKETS/GROCERIES RETAILING France: Competition Authority recommends action to address food retail concentration. Germany: EDEKA/trinkgut...

China's National Development and Reform Commission and the State Administration for Industry and Commerce have issued a swathe of new rules on price and monopoly related abuses, which will come into effect on 1 February 2011. These long-awaited rules will guide...

Joint ventures are an increasingly common feature of the European real estate landscape. Investors are seeking to share the risks and rewards of investment, developers are being incentivised with equity-based "promotes" and lenders are swapping distressed...

Since the Anti-Monopoly Law came into force nearly three years ago, the Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) has reviewed more than 240 transactions. It has prohibited one transaction, and intervened in six other cases imposing conditions. This is MOFCOM's eighth intervention...

The European Commission (the Commission) has reviewed a number of concentrations involving Chinese State-owned enterprises (SOEs) this year, including DSM/Sinochem/JV, China National Bluestar/Elkem, Huaneng/OTPPB/Intergen, and PetroChina/Ineos/JV. With China...

Premerger notification requirements in the US have been significantly revised, affecting the information that must be supplied on the Premerger and Notification Report Form (Form) used to notify the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and US Department of Justice...

China's Ministry of Commerce has released further details of the application and review procedures for the country's new national security review system for foreign M&A involving Chinese enterprises. In this briefing, our lawyers summarise the interim provisions...

In August 2011, China issued new provisions for its national security review system. These provisions cover procedure and reflect MOFCOM's latest instructions on the process and timeline for submitting applications for national security review, and should...