Supporting the transition to a low carbon economy is one of the CMA’s goals in its 2021–2022 Annual Plan, which includes a commitment to improving its understanding of ‘green’ claims made by sellers to consumers and, where appropriate, making use of its powers to correct false or misleading statements that affect consumers. Read more

On 5 May 2021, the European Commission issued its much anticipated proposed regulation on foreign subsidies distorting the EU market, which we summarised in our earlier blog post. If adopted in its current form, the proposed regulation could have a transformative impact and significantly increase the regulatory risk and burdens for foreign companies operating or … Read more

Like most competition law regimes around the world, Malaysia’s Competition Act 2010 contains provisions prohibiting anti-competitive practices and abuses of dominance. However, it does not currently include the third “pillar” of competition law that is common to many other regimes, namely, cross sector merger control rules. Such rules enable competition authorities to review transactions and … Read more

On 29 April 2021 the National Security and Investment (NSI) Bill received Royal Assent. The NSI Act 2021 introduces significant legislative reforms which will overhaul the ability of the UK Government to review transactions on national security grounds, and potentially prohibit their completion or require remedies to allow them to proceed. This is against a … Read more

Key takeaways The UK National Security and Investment (NSI) Act received Royal Assent on 29 April 2021. Once fully implemented (expected by the end of 2021) the NSI regime will overhaul the review of transactions on national security grounds in the UK, including real estate transactions. It represents an important new execution risk factor, with … Read more

Germany is continuing to tighten and develop its FDI regime: After various legislative actions in the course of 2020, the German Federal Government agreed on significant amendments of the existing FDI rules which will enter into force with its publication in the Federal Gazette (Bundesanzeiger). During the last year, the German legislator has lowered the thresholds … Read more

On 5 May 2021, the European Commission (Commission) issued its proposal for a Regulation on foreign subsidies distorting the EU market. This follows on from the Commission’s White Paper issued in June 2020 (see our blog post here) and the extensive public consultation that ensued. Read more

On 23 March 2021, the Italian Competition Authority (Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato, “ICA” or the “Authority”), in its consulting role for the Government in the context of the enactment of the annual competition law, issued a series of proposals for reforms. Read more