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Lebanon merger control under the 2022 Competition Law: 30% market-share threshold, control tests, foreign-to-foreign deals, filing and standstill, review timetables, waivers, penalties and the National Competition Authority

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1. Have there been any recent developments regarding the Lebanese merger control regime and are any updates/developments expected in the coming year? Are there any other ‘hot’ merger control issues in Lebanon?

In early 2022, Lebanon passed its first all-embracing competition statute, Law 281/2022 on the Competition Law (Competition Law 2022), which took effect on 17 March 2022. This instrument constitutes the country’s inaugural, fully fledged competition framework and brought in a modern antitrust and merger control system. Before the Competition Law 2022 became operative, Lebanon lacked a standalone or specific competition statute. Instead, competition issues were addressed only by a handful of basic provisions scattered across different enactments, including Law 34-67/1967 on Commercial Agencies, Law 73-83/1983 on Acquisition of Goods and Agricultural Crops, and Resolution 2385/1924 concerning Industrial Property Rights. None of these, however, created a merger control regime. The introduction of the Competition Law 2022 signifies a clear departure from Lebanon’s long-entrenched habit of overlooking the dominance a small number of influential families exert over the Lebanese market, reflecting a decisive move towards a structured antitrust framework and formal merger oversight in Lebanon...

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Dr. Nicolas Bremer

BREMER

Nicolas is a partner and attorney with the regional law firm BREMER where he heads the firm's Antitrust & Merger Control and Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) teams. He oversees the firm's Riyadh and Cairo representations and has extensive experience in advising international and domestic clients on merger control and antitrust matters as well as mergers and acquisitions and joint venture transactions in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and the wider Near and Middle East. He works in English, Arabic and German language. Prior to joining BREMER Dr. Bremer worked for different international law firms in Berlin, Cairo, Dubai and London. He holds a PhD, which he obtained working on the regulation of large-scale fresh water development in the Near and Middle East under international and domestic law. Dr. Bremer frequently publishes on the law of the Near and Middle East and...

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