Simon Chisholm is a panelist during the conference and will be discussing the following questions:
Session 1: Substantive matters
- Has there been a noticeable impact of the revised MAGs or was the CMA doing this anyway?
- What are the CMA’s structural presumptions and how does it interpret ‘closeness’?
- What is the test for loss of potential competition?
- Where do we stand with tech mergers?
- What is the CMA’s willingness to engage with economic evidence at Phase 1 and Phase 2?
- What are the implications for submitting evidence?
- Do the MAGs reflect established economic consensus?
Session 2: Procedural matters
- To what extent are benign vs harmful deals being deterred?
- Advising clients: is the CMA an outlier when assessing deal risk?
- Does the CMA place much, if any, weight on precedent?
- To what extent can (or do) CAT judgments ‘re-write’ parts of CMA guidelines (e.g., Meta/Giphy)?
- What documents must the CMA share with the merging parties?
- Does the CMA’s merger analysis receive sufficient scrutiny?
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