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Synopsys-Ansys merger faces final KFTC deliberations in March
The fate of the Synopsys-Ansys merger in South Korea will be decided next month as the standing committee of the Korea Fair Trade Commission is set to deliberate on... (more story)
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Tapestry-Capri merger decision endorses flexible US market definitions
Handbag-makers Tapestry and Capri Holdings repeatedly told a US judge examining their planned merger that the US Federal Trade Commission’s “accessible luxury” hand... (more story)
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US FTC’s bipartisan revision of premerger form aims to reduce legal vulnerability
All five US Federal Trade Commissioners voted last week for a slimmer, less demanding premerger form for dealmakers than the June 2023 draft — united across party l... (more story)
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Power plant operators Constellation Energy and Calpine Corporation complained today about demands from critics of their merger who desire a 3 percent regional market share cap on prospective divestiture buyers... (more story)
Universal Music Group is facing an in-depth EU probe into its takeover of Downtown Music, over concerns the world’s largest recorded music group would stifle competition through access to “commercially sensiti... (more story)
Water industry deals in the UK will have to be notified to the government, under proposed changes to boost national security oversight of the sector. Certain internal reorganizations and the appointment of liq... (more story)
Alexander Kornezov, a judge at the EU General Court, is set to move to the top court, according to a document seen by MLex. The appointment, which will run until 2030, will be approved by EU member-state repre... (more story)
Brazilian airlines Gol and Azul told the Administrative Council for Economic Defense that there's no evidence their codeshare agreement has led to coordination between the parties or caused any reduction in th... (more story)
Global Payments has received clearance from the US antitrust authorities for its $24.25 billion acquisition of Worldpay. The waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act expired on July 18, according to a fi... (more story)
Skydance Chief Executive David Ellison and other company representatives met with US Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr and his staff this week to discuss Skydance's transaction with Param... (more story)
Tech investor Prosus is offering to reduce its stake in Delivery Hero from 28 percent to below 10 percent as part of a package of remedies aimed at winning EU approval for its takeover of European food deliver... (more story)
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A discussion paper release by Australian financial and competition regulators has outlined the most likely solution to the problem of how best to manage the country’s distribution of cash with only one commerc... (more story)
The Ferrero Group and WK Kellogg have overlaps in granola products, but the company will file their Hart-Scott-Rodino premerger notifications no later than Aug. 14 and will ask the government for early termina... (more story)
A proposed amendment to a network-sharing agreement between TIM and Telefônica is raising red flags at Brazil’s competition authority due to the unclear scope of municipalities involved. While the companies ar... (more story)
The European Commission wants the Spanish government to drop provisions that allowed it to impose “public interest” conditions on BBVA’s bid for Banco Sabadell, which has drawn ire from national politicians. A... (more story)
SLB, formerly known as Schlumberger, announced today it has completed its acquisition of rival oilfield service supplier ChampionX, 15 months after entering into the $7.8 billion transaction. The deal’s cleara... (more story)
Australia’s new merger regime was designed to be more transparent than the informal notification mechanism it’s set to replace. More deals are set to appear on the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission’... (more story)
The US Department of Justice’s approval of T-Mobile’s acquisition of UScellular last week is remarkable for the number of serious concerns Assistant Attorney General Gail Slater said she had with the deal befo... (more story)
Prosus's bid to buy Just Eat Takeaway.com is worrying EU merger investigators over the tech investor's minority holding in food-delivery rival Delivery Hero*. Prosus could opt simply to sell that holding and m... (more story)