{"id":92712,"date":"2018-06-11T11:07:34","date_gmt":"2018-06-11T11:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=5599aeb7d23c206690cf9fb8ea31cec7"},"modified":"2018-06-11T11:07:34","modified_gmt":"2018-06-11T11:07:34","slug":"news-story-new-cma-guidance-on-changes-to-uk-merger-thresholds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=92712","title":{"rendered":"News story: New CMA guidance on changes to UK merger thresholds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>New government rules set out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/new-merger-and-takeover-rules-come-into-force\">revised UK merger control thresholds<\/a> that broaden the scope for the Secretary of State to intervene in acquisitions of companies which develop certain types of military technology, computer hardware and quantum technology.<\/p>\n<p>The changes also apply to the Competition and Market Authority\u2019s (CMA) merger investigations in those fields. Following a consultation, the CMA is now publishing guidance on its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/mergers-jurisdictional-thresholds-from-june-2018\">approach to mergers<\/a> that fall under the new rules.<\/p>\n<p>While there are likely to be more transactions in the 3 sectors that will technically come under the jurisdiction of the CMA, it does not expect to change how it will assess mergers within these sectors from a competition perspective.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CMA has provided guidance for businesses following government changes to merger rules.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92712"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}