On April 3, the Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) released Tentative Provisions on the Criteria Applicable to Simple Cases of Concentrations of Business Operators (Draft for Comments)(商务部关于经营者集中简易案件适用标准的暂行规定 (征求意见稿)).
MOFCOM speeds up simple mergers
The Ministry of Commerce has set out what merger applications can be classed as simple cases, but has not yet clarified what the streamlined approval process will look like
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