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Global Merger Regulation: Key Themes in 2023 and Predictions for 2024
Simpson Thacher published a report, as highlighted by The Wall Street Journal, titled Global Merger Regulation: Key Themes in 2023 and Predictions for 2024. The report explores the rapidly changing landscape for antitrust and foreign investment regulation in three leading jurisdictions — the US, EU and UK. The authors, Partners Antonio Bavasso, Preston Miller and Counsel Josh Buckland, offer key themes from 2023 and predictions for 2024, including:
- New antitrust paradigm crystallises in the US — will the courts fall in line?
- Across the Atlantic, the UK remains highly interventionist while the EU relies on conditions
- Ecosystem theories of harm at epicentre of most high-profile cases
- Did PE rhetoric result in enforcement action?
- Behavioural remedies: down, but not out?
- EU/UK diversion: searching for common ground with an eye to D.C.
- Telecom decisions provide an important “checkpoint” for European merger control
- Digital mergers remain top-of-mind
- National security and foreign subsidies concerns continue to drive increased governmental scrutiny
- Adapting contractual stance to changed paradigm
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