Sebastian Meyer

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 March 22, 2023, the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (“FMEACA”) hosted an event in which they presented a report commissioned by the FMEACA concerning sustainability goals in competition law in Germany and the EU (“the Report”).[1]