The UK government has proposed major changes to the UK merger control decision-making procedures and jurisdictional tests as part of a broader initiative to encourage investment and promo...
The UK’s new consumer protection regime equips the CMA with extensive new direct enforcement powers, establishes additional banned practices, and provides for penalties as high as 10% o...
On 24 May 2024, the UK’s Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act received royal assent, representing the most significant reform to UK competition and consumer law in over a decade.
On January 24, 2024, the European Commission announced a package of initiatives to strengthen the EU’s economic security, including a series of proposed changes to the EU foreign invest...
On 12 July 2023, the European Commission (EC) fined Illumina €432 million for closing its acquisition of GRAIL without prior EC approval. Representing 10% of Illumina’s global revenue...
Today, the EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation comes into force. This gives the European Commission new, far-reaching powers to investigate whether companies receiving non-EU state financial ...
On 25 April 2023, the UK government published its Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill. The Bill proposes to impose additional conduct and reporting requirements on digital com...
In the 12 months since the UK NSIA regime became fully operational, it has demonstrated its ability to disrupt cross-border deals and, in over a dozen cases to date, prohibit or condition...
On 28 November 2022, the EU formally adopted its foreign subsidies regulation. This gives the European Commission new powers to examine whether companies benefiting from non-EU state fina...
Davis Polk partners Will Pearce and Louis Goldberg are delighted to be contributing editors of the updated edition of Lexology Getting the Deal Through: Private M&A 2023, a comprehensive ...
