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Austrian merger control continues to capture non-full-function joint ventures. Joint ventures covered by merger control are sheltered against parallel assessment under the Austrian rules against anticompetitive agreements (no dual control).

A glance at the website of the Austrian Federal Competition Authority confirms that private equity investors do not always observe competition law. Sanctions for non-compliance with competition law range from fines to ineffectiveness of the complete transaction.

According to a recent study, one out of four SMEs will be handed over within the next five years, meaning some 79,400 corporate succession challenges in Austria alone.

In unserem "to the point" beleuchten unsere Experten für Sie jedes Quartal die aktuelle österreichische Rechtsprechung im Gesellschafts- und Unternehmensrecht.

The amendments to the Austrian Cartel Act introduce an additional notification threshold, which is based on value of a transaction.

After explaining their economic models, the AFCA sets out their tests and criteria for approving shutdown mergers.

The Austrian Federal Competition Authority (FCA) has published a new and more detailed form for merger filings, which shows quite significant changes from the earlier version.

Begünstigte sind im Genehmigungsverfahren nach § 33 Abs 2 PSG nicht stets rekurslegitimiert, wenn sie sich auf Auflösungsgründe berufen.

In light of the economic significance of public procurement and the respective volume of public expenditure in Europe (public sector spending accounts for approximately 20% of EU GDP) it is a well-established and unsurprising fact that public procurement proceedings are particularly vulnerable to corruption.

A Seller must be aware that any deal can "die" and in the cur­rent M&A envi­ron­ment, the chances that a deal dies are – quite frankly and unfor­tu­nately – not low.

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On 6 April 2017 the Austrian Parliament adopted significant amendments to the Austrian merger control system, introducing a transaction value test that extends the reach of Austrian merger control.

Digital antitrust is having a moment. Antitrust cases against tech giants are being discussed on talk shows and podcasts and in connection with buzzwords like "Big Tech" or "Big Data"...

If con­fir­ma­tion was ever needed of the impor­tance of infor­ma­tion for deal-making, the (joint) award of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Eco­nomic Sci­ences to Eugene F. Fama drove home the point.

On 30 June 2017, Regulation (EU) 2017/1129 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 June 2017 on the prospectus to be published when securities are offered to the public or admitted to trading...

March 2026 – CRD VI (Directive (EU) 2024/1619) introduces a new harmonised EU regime requiring EU credit institutions and licensed (mixed)...

On 31 January 2012, the Financial Market Authority (FMA) amended the compliance regulation (Amendment to the Emittenten-Compliance-Verordnung 2007, ECV 2007) introducing the concept of „compliance-relevant information".

In the second half of 2017 both Austria and Germany introduced transaction value based thresholds as alternatives to purely turnover based thresholds that trigger the obligation to obtain merger control approval.