Today, the UK’s new National Security and Investment filing regime becomes fully operational. A wide range of deals will be scrutinized for national security concerns requiring further…
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 2022, a…
The UK government has opened a consultation on proposed powers to allow it to block listings that raise national security concerns. Such proposed powers would give the government the…
On 26 March 2021, the European Commission published new guidance on when it will accept referrals from EU National Competition Authorities to review deals involving potential “killer…
On 11 November 2020, the UK government published the National Security and Investment Bill, which, if enacted, will significantly reform the regulation of M&A activity in the UK by…
Davis Polk partners Will Pearce and Louis Goldberg are delighted to be contributing editors of the updated edition of Getting the Deal Through: Private M&A 2021, a comprehensive…
The UK government has announced amendments to the merger control regime which extend its discretionary powers to intervene on national security or public interest grounds. These reforms aim…
In addition to antitrust and other regulatory approvals, an increasing number of jurisdictions have now adopted FDI screening mechanisms. These aim to determine whether investments by…
The UK operates a voluntary merger control regime. In addition, the European Commission (EC) operates a ‘one-stop shop’ jurisdiction to review the largest and most complex cases on behalf…
