Cullen International has published the first edition of the Antitrust & Mergers Report, a quarterly round-up of the most important antitrust and merger control developments in the communications sectors and the digital economy in Europe.

Featured stories include:

• the pending merger control investigations into Microsoft’s proposed $68.7bn (€67.3bn) acquisition of video game developer and publisher Activision Blizzard;
• a landmark ruling by the EU’s top court confirming that acquisitions implemented without ex ante merger review can be examined ex post by national competition authorities under the provision prohibiting abuses of a dominant position; and
• the German competition authority’s ongoing effort to rein in big tech firms using a special competition law instrument.

In addition to a recap of what happened in the first quarter, the report looks at key decisions and rulings expected in the next three months.

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