Concentrations in Digital Sector - A New EU Antitrust Standard for “Killer Acquisitions” needed?

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

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Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://hrcak.srce.hr/index.php?show=clanak&id_clanak_jezik=364229" target="_blank" >https://hrcak.srce.hr/index.php?show=clanak&id_clanak_jezik=364229</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.22598/iele.2020.7.2.1" target="_blank" >10.22598/iele.2020.7.2.1</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Concentrations in Digital Sector - A New EU Antitrust Standard for “Killer Acquisitions” needed?

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Digital technologies are one of the most important factors driving the current EU to revise its competition rules, inter alia in an area as sensitive to corporate strategies as mergers and acquisitions. The European Commission and a number of independent experts have already identified several key problems that the online environment raises for the application of traditional merger control institutes. Among them the takeovers of promising start-ups, that have already attracted millions of users to their freely distributed application, by some of the major online world players. They are sometimes referred to as “killer acquisitions” and they could even not to come under the authority of the European Commission because the EU Merger Regulation turnover criteria are not achieved. Should other criteria be chosen, or would such take-overs rather be controlled ex-post and under the risk of a de-concentration being ordered? The Commission is coming up with the first outlines of an answer. Its search for a response to these merger control challenges should be closely monitored by corporate practice, as it will set future boundaries for corporate strategies in the markets of tomorrow. The paper tries to structure the main challenges and possible EU law answers to the issue to predict what undertakings must be ready for when contemplating their future strategies for European markets.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Concentrations in Digital Sector - A New EU Antitrust Standard for “Killer Acquisitions” needed?

Popis výsledku anglicky

Digital technologies are one of the most important factors driving the current EU to revise its competition rules, inter alia in an area as sensitive to corporate strategies as mergers and acquisitions. The European Commission and a number of independent experts have already identified several key problems that the online environment raises for the application of traditional merger control institutes. Among them the takeovers of promising start-ups, that have already attracted millions of users to their freely distributed application, by some of the major online world players. They are sometimes referred to as “killer acquisitions” and they could even not to come under the authority of the European Commission because the EU Merger Regulation turnover criteria are not achieved. Should other criteria be chosen, or would such take-overs rather be controlled ex-post and under the risk of a de-concentration being ordered? The Commission is coming up with the first outlines of an answer. Its search for a response to these merger control challenges should be closely monitored by corporate practice, as it will set future boundaries for corporate strategies in the markets of tomorrow. The paper tries to structure the main challenges and possible EU law answers to the issue to predict what undertakings must be ready for when contemplating their future strategies for European markets.

Druh

J_SC - Článek v periodiku v databázi SCOPUS

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50500 - Law

Projekt

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Návaznosti

N - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z neverejnych zdroju

Rok uplatnění

2020

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

InterEULawEast

ISSN

1849-3734

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

VII

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

2

Stát vydavatele periodika

HR - Chorvatská republika

Počet stran výsledku

16

Strana od-do

1-16

Kód UT WoS článku

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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85104639413