Intelligence

As Morocco steps up its merger control enforcement, businesses are increasingly grappling with the country's evolving local nexus test.

Morocco has effectively rolled out a national electronic platform that offers a single interface for local company creation and procedures.

In November 2024, the Moroccan Competition Council (Direction Générale de la Concurrence et de la Répression des Abus de Marché) imposed a fine of MAD 7.58 million dirhams (approx. USD 760,000)...

On May 24, 2023, the Moroccan legislature ushered in a new era of merger control with the implementation of heightened notification thresholds.

Effective 24 May 2023 the Moroccan legislator introduced new, increased merger control notification thresholds.

The most recent amendments of the Moroccan merger control regime, which entered into force in May 2023, introduces new turnover notification thresholds as well as several procedural novelties.