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Training Academy Webinar Recap: Key Takeaways & Lawyer Insights

Following our monthly Training Academy session on Controlling mergers, acquisitions and foreign investments – the local experience, Dr Annalies Muscat shares a quick round‑up of the main points discussed and the practical considerations participants should keep in mind. Key takeaways The Control of Concentrations Regulations apply to the creation of a joint venture, and to merger of undertakings or acquisition by an another of the whole or part of another undertaking where certain turnover thresholds are met. The National Foreign Direct Investment Screening Office Act applies to investments in an economic activity in Malta by a foreign (i.e. non EU)…
Mamo TCV Advocates
20th April 2026
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Consultation on Amendments to Malta’s Merger Rules Antitrust, Competition and Trade

Consultation on Amendments to Malta’s Merger Rules

On 15 January 2026, the Office for Competition within the Malta Competition and Consumer Affairs Authority published a consultation document, together with proposed amendments, recommending changes to the Control of Concentrations Regulations. The changes, if implemented, would considerably change the merger control process in Malta. The main proposals are outlined below: Change in the thresholds: At present, concentrations are notifiable if the aggregate turnover of the parties in Malta exceeds EUR 2.3 million and each of the parties have a turnover in Malta of at least 10% of the aggregate turnover. The proposal envisages the increase of the trigger turnover…
Annalies Muscat
19th January 2026
To Notify or Not to Notify? Merger Control Rules in Malta
Should the Gun be Jumped? A Brief Insight into Merger Control in Malta Antitrust, Competition and Trade

Should the Gun be Jumped? A Brief Insight into Merger Control in Malta

Merger control constitutes the analysis carried out by the Office for Competition (the ‘Office’) in its assessment of those corporate transactions notifiable to it. The aim behind such an assessment is for the Office to consider whether that transaction – taking the form of the creation of a ‘concentration’ – is likely to impede effective competition. The Control of Concentration Regulations1 identify three types of concentrations: mergers, when two or more undertakings previously independent of one another fuse together resulting in an amalgamated new entity. acquisition of control, which consists of the acquisition of (in)direct control in an undertaking either…
Laura Spiteri
28th February 2023