Posts tagged #Merger Control
All PostsECJ Advocate General: No Gap-Closing under EUMR
Competition LawIn a recent Opinion, Advocate General Kokott takes the view that a merger of businesses can be reviewed under Article 102 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) even if a merger does not meet the turnover thresholds for applica...
FCA does not like Facebook's takeover of GIPHY
Competition LawThe Austrian Federal Competition Authority (FCA) is currently investigating the takeover of the US GIF and sticker platform GIPHY by the US Facebook group. The merger had not been notified - possibly unjustly, according to the FCA. In May 2020, Faceb...
OGH: admissibility of hypothetical merger notifications in cartel law
In the course of the notification of a merger to the Federal Competition Authority (Bundeswettbewerbsbehörde, BWB), the Austrian Supreme Court (Oberster Gerichtshof, OGH) had to address the question of whether such merger notifications are possible w...
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