Do not integrate pricing, customers or management before clearance — a ‘friendly transition’ can still be gun-jumping.
Once a deal is a notifiable concentration, parties generally must not implement it until SAMR clears. Premature integration, information exchange without safeguards, or closing early creates gun-jumping exposure. The live clean-team/gun-jumping wiki stays practical depth — this page is the atomic definition. Thresholds and filing basics sit beside it. Dawn-raid/first-hour pages cover investigation moments.
4 questions before you choose the route.
This page identifies the right question and evidence. It does not determine the legal outcome on a reader’s facts.
Is the deal notifiable?
Thresholds/basics.
NotifyWhat is barred pre-clearance?
Standstill map.
StandstillClean team protocol live?
Live related pages.
CleanClosing date vs clearance date?
Calendar.
CalendarWorking rule: Map the regulated role before marketing or launch in China.
The signal ledger.
These facts move the question beyond a label and into a product, money-flow and control analysis.
Bring a compact evidence docket—not a pitch deck.
Give a compliance team or counsel the operating facts that reveal the perimeter.
Questions people ask before they build.
Short answers for orientation. The right result can change with the service model and current rules.
Are ordinary covenants gun-jumping?
Ordinary course covenants differ from control-taking integration. Counsel on grey zones.
Where is the clean-team deep page?
Primary authorities
Reviewed sources support orientation, not a fact-specific assessment.