Marjorie C. Holmes
Reed Smith LLP
Articles
Does the Japanese foreign investment regime have any ‘takeaways’ for the UK?
United Kingdom - January 7 2021 The foreign investment regime in Japan is months ahead of the UK in enhancing safeguards from hostile investment.…
ICAP - facilitating the calculation of competition fines
European Union - July 23 2019 On 10 July 2019, ICAP was successful in its appeal against the EU Commission's €14.96 million fine for facilitating banks in influencing the…
Sainsbury’s and Asda get a 10-year ban
United Kingdom - July 10 2019 The proposed Sainsbury’s/Asda merger would have combined the second- and third-largest UK supermarkets. The merger would also have created the…
Merger control and minority investments
European Union, United Kingdom - July 8 2019 A commonly held view is that merger control filings are not relevant for minority investments…
European Commission opens LNG Qatar Petroleum
European Union - June 21 2018 The European Commission has opened a competition investigation into alleged restrictive practices by Qatar Petroleum in the export of liquefied…
