The new CMA: changes to the UK merger control | Practical Law
The new Competition and Markets Authority came into existence as an independent legal entity on 1 October 2013. It will operate in “shadow form” until the new UK competition regime comes into force on 1 April 2014. This article, the first in a three-part series on the new UK competition regime and the role of the CMA, outlines the new UK merger control regime.