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The European Commission concludes in its first review of the Foreign Subsidies Regulation (FSR) that the Regulation has filled a regulatory gap and remains “fit for purpose”. At the same time, the Commission recognises that the administrative burden associated with the notification regimes may be reduced while maintaining the effectiveness of the FSR....

Although there is no official statistic, I would expect that roughly 25-40% percent of the merger filings to the European Commission are private equity-backed. Private equity transactions may raise several antitrust questions that do not arise in the same way with strategic acquirers (see also our previous post

The European Commission has just proposed five new joint defence projects. The rationale behind the EU’s growing focus on common defence procurement is easy to understand: Fragmented national markets allegedly make it difficult to generate scale, strengthen industrial capacity and coordinate investment across Europe. Less discussed, however, is how these initiatives m...

Earlier this week, the Bundeskartellamt (FCO) published its annual report covering 2025 and early 2026. If there was a single theme running through ...