According to a recent report issued by the department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), the Investment Security Unit (ISU) received 222 notifications in the first three months of the UK’s new National Security and Investment Act 2021 (NSIA) coming into force. Of these notifications, 17 were called in for further assessment. This report … Continue Reading
On 19 June 2019, our Paris office organized a client seminar on the topic: “Insight into competition and regulatory authorities’ investigations in France”. Our Paris competition partners Natasha Tardif and Marc Lévy spoke alongside in-house counsel Amandine Jacquemot, senior legal advisor at EDF, before a fully packed room composed of Paris contacts and clients. Natasha … Continue Reading
The recently proposed Sainsbury’s/Asda merger would have combined the second- and third-largest UK supermarkets. The merger would also have created the largest retailer of fuel by volume in the UK. The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) decided to step in and concluded that the prohibition of the merger was the only way to go. Most … Continue Reading
