Judgments of the Court of First Instance on the appeals by GE and Honeywell of the Commission's 2001
The Court of First Instance today upheld the Commission's decision from July 2001 to prohibit the proposed merger between GE and Honeywell. The Court decided that a number of horizontal overlaps in the parties' activities in the markets for jet engines for large regional aircraft, engines for corporate jet aircraft, and small gas turbines would have created or strengthened a dominant position. However, the Court identified failings in the Commission's analysis in relation to the treatment of vertical and conglomerate effects, and ruled against the Commission on these issues.
Frontier (London) advised Rolls-Royce throughout the administrative and appeal proceedings.
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