Beyond Internal Documents: The Commission’s Recent Assessment of Conglomerate Mergers

Joan de Solà-Morales looks Beyond Internal Documents: The Commission’s Recent Assessment of Conglomerate Mergers.

ABSTRACT: In 2018, Commissioner Vestager highlighted how internal documents have shaped the Commission’s assessment in recent cases, and announced her intention to publish a set of best practices on requests for internal documents in merger investigations. The Commission has indeed shown an increasing reliance on internal documents in its recent merger practice, and now seems to devote a substantial part of its investigation efforts to the gathering and review of these.