Outside Publication

Hot Tub Time Machine? What Role for Towercast in EU Merger Control, Journal of European Competition Law & Practice

26. September 2024

In an article for the Journal of European Competition Law & Practice, co-author and partner Omar Shah writes about the implications of the EU Court of Justice’s Towercast judgment, which has opened the door to ex post enforcement of mergers that bypassed pre-merger review thresholds. Omar and his co-authors assess the judgment’s potential to address regulatory gaps such as “killer acquisitions” while highlighting potential risks of overenforcement, reduced innovation, and increased costs for start-ups and merger and acquisition activities.

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