On September 1, 2020, the Amsterdam Court of Appeal issued a judgment in summary proceedings in a matter regarding the restructuring of Mediaset Group, the media group controlled by the Berlusconi family. By means of a cross-border legal merger, Mediaset Group intended to merge its Italian and Spanish companies into a Dutch public limited company (naamloze vennootschap or NV). The Court of Appeal ruled that the merger may not proceed as intended. The Amsterdam District Court previously found that there was no reason for a bar.