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Recent actions by the Saudi Arabia competition authority confirm that the agency is adopting a more aggressive enforcement approach, particularly involving consumer-facing companies.

The Saudi merger control authority—the General Authority for Competition (GAC)—on 7 June 2023 announces that with immediate effect the cap for the merger control filing fee would be reduced to SAR 250,000 (approx. USD 67,000).

The Competition Law issued by Royal Decree No. (M/75) dated 1440/06/29H and its regulations, govern economic concentration, in addition to other directly related operations closely linked to the safety and stability of competition ...

The General Authority for Competition (GAC) today officially announced that they are considering two amendments to the Kingdom's merger control regime.

After the Saudi General Authority for Competition (GAC) initially provided no inside on why it end of 2021 blocked the acquisition of the Saudi food delivery company Chefz by Delivery Hero.

On 21 April 2024, the General Authority for Competition (GAC) released their first-quarter report for 2024 concerning their merger control activities.

On January 7, 2024, The General Authority for Competition (GAC) published its 2024 Merger Control Report. According to the report, GAC granted unconditional clearance for 202 transactions in 2024.

On 7 June 2023, the Saudi Arabian General Authority for Competition (GAC) granted for the first time a conditional clearance.

The Saudi Arabian General Authority for Competition ("GAC") announced this week that its board had blocked Delivery Hero's proposed acquisition of The Chefz...

Welcome to the May 2025 edition of Law Update. This month, we spotlight the continued relevance and growing influence of English law across the MENA...

The Saudi General Authority for Competition (GAC) has released its 2024 Annual Activity Report. The report underscores a year of intensified enforcement, legislative initiatives...

The Saudi General Authority for Competition (GAC) published its 2025 Annual Activities Report, providing insights into the GAC's merger control activity over the past year.

The Saudi General Authority for Competition (GAC) published its quarterly report summarizing merger control activity for the second quarter of 2025.

Middle Eastern economies continued to expand in 2023 with M&A activity in the region fuelled in large part by sovereign wealth funds and other government-owned entities.

Learn more about the overview of pending amendments to the Saudi commercial agency and distributor regime at Bremer.

Foreign direct investment in developing economies—both in the form of green field investments and mergers and acquisitions (M&A)—surged in the 1990s.

On June 13th 2023, the Saudi Council of Ministers approved the Kingdom's new Civil Transaction Law, marking a significant shift from Sharia law to a codified legal system. The law took effect on June 19th 2023, following a grace period of six months...