Global Merger Regulation: Key Themes in 2024 and Predictions for 2025: Winds of Change
Simpson Thacher published its annual report on Global Merger Regulation: Key Themes in 2024 and Predictions for 2025: Winds of Change, which was also highlighted in The Wall Street Journal. With the changing of government leaders on both sides of the Atlantic and an evolving geopolitical equilibrium, the regulatory landscape is entering a new frontier. The authors, Partners Antonio Bavasso, Josh Buckland, Peter Guryan and Preston Miller, discuss the antitrust and foreign investment regulation landscape in the US, EU and UK. Our key themes from 2024 and predictions for 2025 include:
- Changing of the guard on both sides of the Atlantic
- A new geopolitical equilibrium and renewed industrial policy
- Are merger control authorities running out of steam or just catching their breath?
- New breed of remedies in strategic sectors?
- How to catch a killer (acquisition)
- Partnerships and acqui-hires: a new frontier of merger enforcement
- New HSR rules set to shake up US antitrust reviews
- CFIUS under Trump (version 2.0)
- FDI and National Security remains a top priority in Europe
- First blood: first-ever conditional approval under the EU’s foreign subsidies regulation
To read the full report, please click here.