While Washington appears to have lost interest in pre-merger antitrust review, such reviews are intensifying in Brussels. Thanks to appeal judgments requiring the European Commission to justify its decisions more thoroughly, a new era of more lengthy and fact-intensive reviews has arrived. It seems that competitors are more easily able to create delays by exploiting this trend, which two case studies will illustrate.
Region:
European Union, United States
Interest Area:
Commercial and Contracts,
Corporate, Securities, and Governance