On June 17, 2024, the German Federal Cartel Office (“FCO”) unconditionally cleared the acquisition of Olink Holding AB (publ) (“Olink”) by Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (“Thermo Fisher”) following the FCO’s first in-depth investigation of a case caught by the transaction value threshold.[1]
On November 30, 2022, the German Federal Cartel Office (“FCO”) and the German Federal Network Agency published their joint Energy Monitoring Report 2022.[1] The report focuses on conditions in the German electricity and gas markets in 2021 and also takes a look at developments in early 2022 which were marked by heavy disruptions in the energy markets following Russia’s war against Ukraine.