Irish Merger Control 2019 – Your 3-Minute Briefing

by | Feb 11, 2020 | Representative Blogs

  1. 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 to “no-issue” deals haven’t materially increased: P1 clearance averaged 5 weeks in 2019.

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