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These proposals are significant and seek to more closely scrutinise foreign investment deals that affect national security.

The BCA is of the opinion that Belgian notification thresholds should not be increased because they are already relatively high when compared to those neighbouring Member States.

On 12 December 2012, the General Court of the European Union handed down a judgment dismissing an appeal by electricity company Electrabel against a European Commission decision to fine it for acquiring control of Compagnie Nationale du Rhone without having received prior approval under the Merger Regulation.

On 8 June 2015, the Belgian Competition Authority lifted the conditions imposed four years ago on Proximus (formerly called Belgacom) in the context of its acquisition of The Phone House.

Avago's acquisition of Broadcom received a first phase conditional clearance from the European Commission on 23 November 2015.

The case arose from Saiag SpA’s sale of its marine hoses business to Parker Hannifin Corp. in January 2002.

On 11 January 2017, GE notified its proposed acquisition of LM Wind to the Commission.

In this edition in our series on the Foreign Subsidies Regulation (FSR), we focus on the significance of today's date – 12 July 2023. As of today, the FSR is applicable. But what does...

On 28 February 2018, the Brussels Court of Appeal held that the decision of the Belgian Competition Authority to partially lift specific conditions imposed on Kinepolis was poorly reasoned..

The second SO concerns the GE/LM Wind transaction. GE

On 30 November 2015, the Belgian Competition Authority (Belgische Mededingingsautoriteit/Autorité Belge de la Concurrence – the "BCA") decided to open an in-depth investigation into the acquisition by Kinepolis of four cinema complexes currently owned by Utopia NV. Kinepolis had notified the proposed acquisition to the BCA on 12 October 2015.

No doubt that this health crisis has impacted M&A deals: deals that have been signed tend to proceed to completion, but the interim period is likely to be extended in many cases, and deals...

In this case, T-Mobile was a direct competitor of Hutchison and Orange.

On 28 January 2015, in two separate decisions, the European Commission conditionally approved a complex transaction between pharmaceuticals producers GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Novartis.

The substantive FSR review essentially follows a three-step test: (i) assessing whether a foreign subsidy distorts the EU market; (ii) weighing the foreign subsidy's negative effects against its positive impacts ("balancing test"); and (iii) imposing remedies if necessary...

In merger procedures, it is a fundamental requirement for parties to provide accurate and complete information to the European Commission as it forms the basis of the Commission's assessment of mergers.

The European Commission wants to be able to block or conditionally approve transactions, mainly in the digital economy and in the pharmaceutical sector, even when the thresholds for notification...