Feb 21, 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...
Jul 08, 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...
May 20, 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...
Mar 17, 2022 The CMA’s Revised Merger Assessment Guidelines – Reading Between the Lines By Ben Forbes Mat Hughes Co-authored by Bruce Kilpatrick, Partner, Addleshaw GoddardIn March 2021, the Competition and Market’s Authority (the “CMA”) published a...
Nov 22, 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...
Sep 01, 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...
Jun 30, 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...
Jun 08, 2021 Big Data in Merger Control: Part 1 – Our take on the five Vs of Big Data By Ben Forbes Toni Herrell David Waterfield Big Data is playing an increasingly important and prominent role in global merger control. But what do we mean by ‘Big Data’ in this...