Green channel offers immediate approval for transactions meeting strict absence-of-overlap conditions and complete disclosure. Incorrect eligibility can un
Finin2min summary
Green channel offers immediate approval for transactions meeting strict absence-of-overlap conditions and complete disclosure. Incorrect eligibility can unwind the benefit.
Source review date: 4 July 2026. Read with the official text and the facts of the transaction.
Legal anchors
- Section 6 and Green Channel framework
- Combinations Regulations, 2024
- CCI FAQs
How to analyse it
- Map horizontal, vertical and complementary overlaps across groups.
- Review portfolio entities and affiliates.
- Document search methodology.
- Escalate any potential overlap before filing.
Practical illustration
A private-equity fund’s portfolio company supplies inputs to the target. That vertical link may defeat green-channel eligibility.
What can go wrong?
- Narrow portfolio search
- Ignoring minority-controlled entities
- Generic overlap declaration
Evidence pack
- Portfolio map
- Overlap search
- Market descriptions
- Eligibility memo
Decision workflow
- Freeze the facts and effective date.
- Identify the controlling Act, rule, notification, circular and jurisdictional overlay.
- Prepare a calculation or exposure note.
- Collect the evidence pack before filing, payment, signing or response.
- Record reviewer conclusion and assumptions.
Quick Q&A
Is the result automatic?
No. Map horizontal, vertical and complementary overlaps across groups.
What is the most important control?
Escalate any potential overlap before filing.
What should be escalated?
Narrow portfolio search, especially where money, deadlines, enforcement, personal liability or irreversible transaction steps are involved.
Official source trail
Secondary commentary may help interpretation, but it is not the source of law.