Eurotunnel: when buying assets is a merger

From Competition Bulletin: Eurotunnel: when buying assets is a merger


“When is an asset acquisition a merger? As the Eurotunnel litigation shows, the answer is not clear-cut. The background is the 2011 liquidation of the cross-channel ferry company SeaFrance. It could not be sold as a going concern, so instead there was an asset sale. Eurotunnel bought three ferries and various other assets including the […]”


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Kevin Coates, 'Eurotunnel: when buying assets is a merger' (21st Century Competition, 29 January 2015) <https://www.twentyfirstcenturycompetition.com/2015/01/eurotunnel-when-buying-assets-is-a-merger/> accessed 23 March 2026.

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Kevin Coates. "Eurotunnel: when buying assets is a merger." 21st Century Competition, 29 January 2015. https://www.twentyfirstcenturycompetition.com/2015/01/eurotunnel-when-buying-assets-is-a-merger/.

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@misc{kevin-coates2015, author = {Kevin Coates}, title = {{Eurotunnel: when buying assets is a merger}}, year = {2015}, url = {https://www.twentyfirstcenturycompetition.com/2015/01/eurotunnel-when-buying-assets-is-a-merger/}, note = {21st Century Competition} }
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