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How Are Competition Laws Heating Up in the Middle East? An Insider’s Guide to the Recent Surge in Legislation and Enforcement

Isabel Rooms, Chris Macbeth, Daniela Weerasinghe (Cleary Gottlieb)/December 11, 2024December 17, 2024 /Leave a comment

This year, we kick off our ‘main developments in competition law and policy’ series with this special treat! Main Developments in Competition Law and Policy 2018-2024: Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Palestine, Saudi Arabia (the KSA), Syria, United Arab Emirates (the UAE), and Yemen 1. Introduction and Background Antitrust regulation has…

Bahrain, Competition enforcement, Kuwait, Merger control, Merger notification, Merger regulation, Merger Thresholds, Mergers, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE

Merger Control In the Gulf Cooperation Council Region: Comparing The Saudi Arabian, UAE, Kuwaiti, Bahraini, Qatari and Omani Regimes Under the Lens of Competition

Ankita Dhawan (KARM Legal Consultants) and Raghu Gagneja (Symbiosis International University)/March 24, 2023March 24, 2023 /3 Comments

Are big companies necessarily bad? If they are, how can we ensure that companies do not become too big and too bad? How can markets remain free, fair and competitive? Competition law has tried to answer these questions for centuries, with the most recent debates revolving around the alleged anti-competitive conduct of large tech companies….