Ursula von der Leyen's honeyed words for a joint venture between Airbus, Leonardo and Thales on Thursday was an exceptional intervention that will trigger concerns over respect for the European Commission's no... (more story)

Dominant companies will cast a worrisome eye over their M&A plans following an EU court ruling on Wednesday that could curb any expansion that calcifies an already uncompetitive market. Booking’s failure to ov... (more story)

A recent decision by the European Commission to pause its ongoing review of the intended Saipem7 deal is putting an end to any expectation that the deal could close by the end of the year — the official date f... (more story)

Union Pacific Railroad and Norfolk Southern Railway are challenging the US Surface Transportation Board's authority to condition their proposed merger on measures intended to promote competition, arguing that ... (more story)

Nvidia’s promise to preserve Hugging Face as an open, hardware-neutral platform anticipates what is likely to become the central issue in the antitrust reviews of its $12.93 billion acquisition: whether the do... (more story)

Companies and investors subject to US national security agreements are facing fewer on-site inspections under President Donald Trump, as his administration scales back a Biden-era expansion of mitigation overs... (more story)

A string of transactions is set to test EU policymakers' claims that the bloc's new merger guidelines will aid dealmaking and help foster European companies with sufficient scale to invest in innovation, compe... (more story)

Biden-era US Federal Trade Commission investigations of the Exxon-Pioneer and Chevron-Hess merger deals have backed up private price-fixing claims brought by consumers against shale oil producers and two previ... (more story)