Ukraine Chapter For The Merger Control Review

I INTRODUCTION

The Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (AMC) is the authority exclusively responsible for dealing with mergers.

i Notion of concentration

Merger approvals are required whenever a concentration is consummated, provided that the parties thereto meet or exceed the relevant financial thresholds. In particular, for the purposes of the Ukrainian merger control rules, a concentration is deemed to occur, inter alia, in cases of:

a mergers between undertakings (i.e., when two or more independent undertakings amalgamate into a new undertaking and cease to exist as separate legal entities);

b absorption of one undertaking by another (with one retaining its legal identity and the other ceasing to exist as a legal entity);