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Article written by partners Antoine Choffel and Yann Utzschneider, and Alexandre Glatz, which is an extract from GCR - The European Antitrust Review 2015 published in August 2014, and reproduced with kind permission from Global Competition Review.
The French merger control regime is governed by the provisions of Book IV of the French Commercial Code (article L.430-1 and following), as amended by the Law on the Modernization of the Economy (LME) enacted on 4 August 2008, and the Government’s Order No. 2008-1161, dated 14 November 2008.
