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The Düsseldorf Court of Appeals (“DCA”) has now published its full reasoning rejecting the Federal Cartel Office’s (“FCO”) expansive interpretation of Germany’s transaction value-based test in Adobe’s acquisitions of Magento (e-commerce software) and Marketo (B2B marketing automation software).[1]  The decisions clarify that the transaction value-based threshold is a subsidiary test, triggered only where the…

On June 2, 2025, the Commission fined Delivery Hero and Glovo €329 million for a cartel in the online food delivery sector.  During Delivery Hero’s non-controlling minority shareholding in Glovo from 2018 to 2022, the parties (1) agreed not to poach each other’s employees; (2) divided national markets among themselves, and (3) exchanged commercially sensitive information.…

On May 8, 2025, the European Commission (the “EC”) launched a public consultation on the EU Merger Guidelines (together, the “Guidelines”), which describe the framework applied by the EC to assess the competitive impact of horizontal and non-horizontal mergers (the “Consultation”).[1]  The Consultation responds to the Draghi Report’s call for “more forward-looking and…

In January 2025, the French Competition Authority (the “FCA”) launched a public consultation on the introduction of a merger control framework for transactions that fall below the current turnover-based notification thresholds.[1] Whereas three options were presented in the consultation, on April 10, 2025 the FCA announced that the first option, namely the introduction of…

On March 18, 2025, a legislative proposal was opened for consultation that, if enacted, would enable the Dutch Authority for Consumers and Markets (“ACM”) to “call in” transactions that currently do not meet notification thresholds for merger review.[1] The Proposal follows calls by the ACM for expanded authority and coincides with its first investigation…

On March 18, 2025, the German Federal Court of Justice (“FCJ”) confirmed the designation of Apple Inc. (“Apple”) as a company of “paramount significance for competition across markets” (“PCMS”) under Section 19a(1) of the German Act against Restraints of Competition (“ARC”) which enables the German Federal Cartel Office’s (“FCO”) to prohibit specific conduct of Apple in…