Our economists advised ChemChina on its acquisition of Syngenta, a Swiss pesticides and seeds group. The European Commission (EC) approved the acquisition subject to the divestiture of parts of ChemChina’s European pesticide and plant growth regulator business. In the US, the Federal Trade Commission cleared the transaction with minor divestitures of pesticide products.
Does your merger trigger Canada’s “rebuttable structural presumption”?
This article, authored by CRA’s Ian Cass, provides a brief reference guide along with a visual tool to help assess whether a merger meets the prescribed market...



