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How can France catch below-threshold mergers? Consultation offers options

By Natalie McNelis ( January 14, 2025, 16:12 GMT | Insight) -- "Killer acquisitions" are in the French competition authority's crosshairs with a new consultation to ensure France has the power to review and refer mergers that don’t meet its thresholds for notification. Three options are on the table: a call-in power based on “quantitative and qualitative” criteria, a new notification obligation for companies with a degree of market power, or relying on existing provisions that prohibit anticompetitive agreements or abuse of a dominant position. The consultation runs to Feb. 16.How to ensure review of mergers that don’t meet statutory thresholds is the subject of a public consultation opened by the French competition authority today (see here)....

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