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Brazil looks closer at Google, Microsoft AI deals, closes other Big Tech probes May 13, 2026 | Flavia Fortes and Maria Júlia Baumert

Brazil’s competition authority is requiring Google and Microsoft to notify the agency of certain AI startup deals that fall below mandatory merger filing thresholds, while dropping probes into some other Big T... (more story)

Paramount defends WBD deal, maintains commitment to movie releases in letter to Calif. AG May 13, 2026 | Curtis Eichelberger

Paramount Skydance sent California Attorney General Rob Bonta a letter May 7 addressing the state’s antitrust concerns over Paramount’s $111 billion proposed acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery in hopes of a... (more story)

Brazil's CADE delays ruling in Amazon-Anthropic partnership investigation May 13, 2026 | Flavia Fortes and Maria Júlia Baumert

The Brazilian competition authority has postponed a ruling on its investigation of Amazon’s partnership with Anthropic, saying that it needs to investigate the case further to determine whether the tech giant ... (more story)

Charter, Cox scheduling proposal in California opposed by Media Alliance May 13, 2026 | Wesley Brown

Media Alliance, a nonprofit organization, expressed its opposition to a proposed settlement filing timeline submitted by Charter and Cox, arguing that the companies put themselves in a time crunch and that the... (more story)

Overhaul of UK CMA's panel system outlined in Competition Reform Bill May 13, 2026 | Jon Menon

UK legislation to re-engineer the system of decision making for in-depth merger and market probes at the country’s antitrust regulator will be introduced by the government. The Competition Reform Bill will giv... (more story)

UK businesses to get sandboxes, growth duty expands under regulatory reform bill May 13, 2026 | Patricia Figueiredo

UK businesses can expect regulators to be given stronger duties to support economic growth and new powers to temporarily relax rules for testing AI under legislation announced Wednesday. The proposed Regulatin... (more story)

EU rejects referral of Vanderlande-Siemens Logistics baggage handling deal May 13, 2026 | Andrew Boyce

The EU’s merger regulator has declined to review Vanderlande's €300 million takeover of Siemens Logistics, saying it wouldn’t be “appropriate” to investigate a transaction that was implemented more than one ye... (more story)

Discuss efficiencies even when no concerns, EU merger official tells dealmakers May 13, 2026 | Andrew Boyce

EU merger officials are willing to discuss potential benefits emerging from deals, even in cases that don’t ultimately give rise to competition concerns, an EU competition official said. But Daniele Calisti sa... (more story)

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Union Pacific, Norfolk Southern unclear on growth of passenger rail service May 08, 2026 | Curtis Eichelberger

Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern have provided more information to the federal government about their proposed merger, but the freight rail companies have not yet identified a plan to grow passenger traffic ... (more story)

FTC settlement highlights broad scrutiny of 365 Retail serial acquisitions May 07, 2026 | Flavia Fortes and Ilana Kowarski

The Federal Trade Commission’s proposed remedy in the 365 Retail Markets matter underscores the agency’s growing focus on serial acquisitions and its willingness to assess a company’s broader course of conduct... (more story)

DC Circuit scrutiny of Nexstar-Tegna puts FCC delegated decisions in spotlight May 06, 2026 | Wesley Brown

The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit’s demand for a timeline in litigation tied to the Federal Communications Commission’s approval of the Nexstar-Tegna merger is drawing renewed attention to the agency’... (more story)

Telecom sector will cheer EU merger guidelines' championing of scale May 04, 2026 | Andrew Boyce

The telecom sector was one of the loudest voices in a review of the European Commission's merger guidelines, saying they need room to consolidate national markets to compete with larger rivals in the US and Ch... (more story)

Sysco–Jetro deal poses complex antitrust test beyond traditional merger playbook May 01, 2026 | Flavia Fortes

Sysco’s proposed $29.1 billion acquisition of Jetro Holdings, parent of Restaurant Depot, presents US enforcers with a familiar name but a structurally different problem from the distributor mergers that regul... (more story)

Push to change UK CMA's decision process prompts rare alignment of critics May 01, 2026 | Jon Menon

The UK government is assessing feedback to its plans to re-engineer the system of decision making for in-depth merger and market probes at the country’s antitrust regulator. The breadth of the concerns raised ... (more story)

UPM-Sappi paper deal draws tough and traditional EU concerns April 29, 2026 | Andrew Boyce

An in-depth EU investigation into UPM’s joint venture with Sappi has thrown the book at the deal, voicing a host of concerns about how the tie-up would combine the two largest graphic paper manufacturers in Eu... (more story)

China's block of Meta-Manus deal underscores higher bar for cross-border tech deals April 29, 2026 | MLex Staff

China's landmark decision to block Meta Platforms' acquisition of artificial intelligence startup Manus underscores Beijing's evolving approach to evaluating cross-border technology deals, with authorities now... (more story)