Guidance

Merger assessment guidelines

Guidance for businesses on the Competition and Markets Authority’s (CMA) approach to assessing mergers.

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Merger assessment guidelines (CMA129) printable version

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These guidelines set out the CMA’s approach when investigating mergers.

The guidelines are designed to help companies and their advisers assess if competition concerns might arise in a merger.

We updated this guidance on 18 March 2021 after consulting on updates.

Updates to this page

Published 1 September 2010
Last updated 18 March 2021 show all updates
  1. Updated merger assessment guidelines published.

  2. First published.

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