Egyptian Competition Authority

By Dr. Amir Nabil1   I. Introduction Almost 17 years after the enactment of the Egyptian Competition Law (“ECL”), pre-merger control was finally introduced through the Law No. 175/2022. In the past few years, the Egyptian Competition Authority (“ECA”) had expressed concerns about the anticompetitive impact of some  transactions taking place in the market. It […]

By: Rostom Omar, Esq. (Primerio/African Antitrust) Egypt finally adopts a new merger-control regime that would transform the system from a post-notification to a pre-approval system. After nearly twenty years of applying Competition Law in Egypt and After several attempts from the Egyptian Competition Authority (ECA) to introduce a pre-merger notifications regime and several discussions with […]

Minister of Trade and Industry Nevine Gamea appointed Mahmoud Momtaz as the Chairman of the Egyptian Competition Authority (ECA) reported Egypt Today. Momtaz received his PhD in Competition Law & Economics from the University of Hamburg – Germany. Prior to that he obtained an M.Sc. degree in International Business from the German University in Cairo […]

The Egyptian Competition Authority (ECA) has called on the health ministry to stop a potential merger between Cleopatra Hospitals Group, one of Egypt’s largest private hospital groups, and Alameda Healthcare, claiming the deal constitutes a monopolistic practice that would negatively impact people’s rights and the country’s economy, a source at the authority said. The two […]