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How the nail-biting wait for Australian merger regulation affects dealmakers

By James Panichi ( March 17, 2025, 07:11 GMT | Comment) -- The Australian government’s failure to deliver the regulation it had said would accompany the recently legislated overhaul of merger laws is creating immediate problems for dealmakers. In particular, a lack of clarity about how the new thresholds will apply and what sectors will be “designated” as requiring automatic notification has left competition lawyers desperate for answers. They’re worried that the lack of information could undermine the six-month transition period designed to ease the country into the new, mandatory-notification regime.In a perfect world, well-paid antitrust lawyers would have better things to do with their billable hours than log on to a government website and hit the “refresh” button every hour....

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