Australian Competition and Consumer Commission: how it reviews brand acquisitions

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission assesses whether an acquisition would substantially lessen competition in an Australian market. Australia moved from a voluntary informal clearance system to a mandatory and suspensory notification regime, with the ACCC as first-instance decision maker and review by the Australian Competition Tribunal.

Official site: www.accc.gov.au/business/mergers-and-acquisitions · Regime: Competition and Consumer Act 2010, section 50

A primer on this jurisdiction's merger regime is in preparation.