07 Dec, 2023 Trends and developments in UK Merger Control: Buyer beware By Mat Hughes Ben Forbes “Buyer beware” would be a good summary of UK merger control in 2023. Mat Hughes and Ben Forbes review what has been an eventful year of...
21 Feb, 2023 Merger control planning – five ways to mitigate increasing scrutiny By Mat Hughes Sean O'Flynn Ben Forbes With the challenges currently seen in the M&A market for large-scale standalone acquisitions, one widely applied M&A strategy is “buy and...
08 Jul, 2022 Measuring unilateral price increases in the UK and EU due to mergers in differentiated markets: Are the tools fit for purpose? By Mat Hughes Ben Forbes Jules Duberga In many merger cases, the core competition concern is that the loss of rivalry between two merging competitors may render it profitable...
20 May, 2022 Big Data in Merger Control: Part 4 - Turning data into insight By Ben Forbes Toni Herrell David Waterfield In this series of posts, we are focusing on the increasingly important topic of Big Data and its role in merger control assessments. In...
17 Mar, 2022 The CMA’s Revised Merger Assessment Guidelines – Reading Between the Lines By Ben Forbes Mat Hughes Co-authored by Bruce Kilpatrick, Partner, Addleshaw Goddard In March 2021, the Competition and Market’s Authority (the “CMA”) published a...
22 Nov, 2021 Big data in Merger Control: Part 3 - Lessons from the coal face By Ben Forbes Toni Herrell David Waterfield In this series of posts, we are focusing on the increasingly important topic of Big Data and its role in merger control assessments. Our...
01 Sep, 2021 Killer acquisitions: the trouble with predictions By Ben Forbes Mat Hughes Camelia O'Brien So-called “killer acquisitions” – where large firms acquire threatening start-ups – have become an increasing focus of global merger...
30 Jun, 2021 Big Data in Merger Control: Part 2 – Is Big Data friend or foe? By Ben Forbes Toni Herrell David Waterfield In this series of posts, we are focusing on the increasingly important topic of Big Data and its role in merger control assessments. In...