“Do we review merger thresholds downwards and or completely revise criteria for determining market shares (turnover consideration)?” posed the the Competition Authority of Kenya (CAK) Director-General on one of our LinkedIn posts after we published the first part of this article on “Why ‘killer acquisitions’ should worry regulators”on September 29, 2020, in the Business Daily.
He went on to note that “this is an area of great interest, especially post Covid-19 due to the increased digitalisation of the economy”.