European Union:
Conglomerate Effects: An EU Resurgence?
21 August 2019
Shearman & Sterling LLP
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The European Commission (EC) is increasingly invoking
conglomerate theories of harm in its merger reviews. The complexity
of these theories is resulting in more in-depth Phase 2 reviews and
behavioral access commitments are relatively common for
conglomerate mergers in the high-tech space.
Read this chapter in Shearman &
Sterling's 2019 Antitrust Annual Report, "Conglomerate
Effects: An EU Resurgence?"
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