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New German Merger Control Thresholds: A More Business-Friendly Approach?

What Happened: • On January 19, 2021, major changes to German antitrust/competition law, i.e. the 10th Amendment Act to the German Act Against Restraints of Competition (ARC) entered into force. • In addition to introducing stricter abuse control, in particular over digital companies with a strong market position (so much so that one may refer to the act as the “ARC Digitisation Act”) and effecting changes to procedural rules and cartel prosecution, the new law also introduces substantive...
By: McDermott Will & Emery
Source Url: https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/new-german-merger-control-thresholds-a-9631495/

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