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Merger-process guidelines will help dealmakers with new laws, Australian watchdog says

( March 27, 2025, 03:08 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Australia’s competition watchdog has issued draft merger-process guidelines designed to assist dealmakers in understanding how to interact with the regulator over the notification of deals under the new mandatory and suspensory merger laws. The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission said its merger-process guidelines were intended to help dealmakers and their advisers by outlining the ACCC’s “usual processes when assessing acquisitions and the ACCC’s expectations for how relevant stakeholders may engage in those processes,” once the new regime replaces the old voluntary-notification rules on Jan. 1, 2026. The publications follows the release of draft merger-assessment guidelines last week.The merger-process guidelines are attached; the full statement from the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission follows: ...

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