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China issues standardized merger-filing rules to streamline SAMR reviews

By MLex Staff ( September 30, 2025, 06:07 GMT | Insight) -- China issued its first standardized framework for merger filings on Monday, consolidating scattered guidances into a single official set of rules designed to bring predictability to the country's merger review system. The Specification for Notification of Concentrations of Undertakings, published Monday by the State Administration for Market Regulation, takes effect Wednesday. It sets out the conditions under which companies should notify transactions, the documents and information they must provide, and how reviews will be processed.China has issued its first standardized framework for merger filings, consolidating scattered guidances into a single official set of rules designed to bring predictability to the country's merger review system....

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