Minority Shareholdings And Interlocking Directorships: The European Union Approach

Francisco Enrique Gonzalez-Diaz, Jan 10, 2012

The debate about the antitrust treatment of minority shareholdings and interlocking directorships is certainly not new. The European Commission did, however, re-open the discussion earlier this century in its 2001 Green Paper, when considering the reform of the Merger Regulation that led to the adoption of the new European Merger Regulation (“EUMR”).

This debate has been reactivated recently following the Ryanair judgment of the General C