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Irish Merger Control 2020 – Your 3-Minute Update

by Philip Andrews | Jan 19, 2021 | Representative Blogs

5 Key Takeaways More Deals Take Longer More deals than ever before involved extended CCPC reviews.  Of 42 deals notified, 10 involved merger review delays of at least 3 months.  Two “Phase 2” reviews, both on going as of 15/01/2021, have each taken 11 months already. ...

Irish Merger Control 2019 – Your 3-Minute Briefing

by Philip Andrews | Feb 11, 2020 | Representative Blogs

P2s Get Longer, But P1s Don’t! Two 2018 P2s, cleared in 2019, took over 320 days.  One of the two decisions is published and runs to 240 pages.  In 2003, Year 1 of modern Irish merger control, a P2 averaged 100 days and a typical P2 decision was 20 pages.  But delays...

2 Long Phase 2s Complete: What Lessons Learnt?

by Philip Andrews | Jul 23, 2019 | Representative Blogs

325 days from first filing, the CCPC just recently cleared Live Nation’s acquisition of sole control of Irish concert promoter, MCD Productions, a merger of Ireland’s largest ticketing company and venue operator with the country’s biggest concert and event promoter....

A small charitable donation for gun-jumping

by Philip Andrews | Apr 11, 2019 | Representative Blogs

After an 18 month investigation involving officials from both the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (“CCPC”) and Ireland’s Director of Public Prosecution, and a first-ever criminal prosecution, a company that gun-jumped Irish merger control rules avoided...

Irish Merger Control 2018 – 5 Takeaways

by Philip Andrews | Jan 11, 2019 | Representative Blogs

1. More Deals Receive More Scrutiny Of 98 deals notified, 11 received extended CCPC review (including 4 Phase 2 reviews) – the most extended reviews ever conducted by the CCPC in a single year. While no deal was blocked outright, 5 were cleared conditional on...

Ireland – Hard-Core Cartel Offender Gets €7,500 Fine & Suspended Sentence

by Philip Andrews | Jun 6, 2017 | Representative Blogs

Following a guilty plea to criminal bid-rigging and obstruction charges, a company director was fined €7,500 by an Irish judge on 31 May and sentenced to three months’ imprisonment (suspended – meaning no jail time).   The executive was also barred from acting as a...
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