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UMG-Downtown deal needs in-depth EU review, Fletcher says June 13, 2025 | Andrew Boyce and Lewis Crofts

Universal Music Group’s takeover of Downtown Music has prompted concerns from former competition regulator Amelia Fletcher, who is also a musician and record label co-founder. In a letter to the EU's competiti... (more story)

SAMR flags competition concerns in three China merger reviews between Jan-May June 13, 2025 | MLex Staff

China's top merger-control regulator has raised competition concerns on three merger transactions in the first five months of this year, an official at the agency said. At a regular press conference this morni... (more story)

Shanghai regulator has completed 402 merger reviews since 2022, official says June 13, 2025 | MLex Staff

Shanghai market regulators have completed 402 merger reviews since 2022, when China introduced a pilot program allowing entrusted local regulators to handle simple case reviews, according to a senior official ... (more story)

UK merger control to prioritize 'classic theories of harm,' senior enforcer says June 12, 2025 | Jon Menon

UK merger control will seek to prioritize more traditional theories of harm to competition as part of an overhaul of regulatory guidance, according to a senior competition enforcer today. The regulatory proces... (more story)

American Airlines sees judicial threat to pro-consumer partnerships June 12, 2025 | Flavia Fortes

American Airlines told the US Supreme Court that allowing to stand the appeals court ruling that dismantled its Northeast Alliance with JetBlue would indefinitely chill procompetitive joint ventures involving ... (more story)

Mars risks EU in-depth probe into Kellanova deal June 12, 2025 | Nicholas Hirst, Lewis Crofts and Andrew Boyce

Mars is facing an EU in-depth inquiry into its bid to take over snack-giant Kellanova unless it can offer remedies that ease competition concerns, MLex has learned. EU investigators highlighted market oppositi... (more story)

Singapore antitrust regulator plans faster, simpler merger reviews June 12, 2025 | Jet Damazo-Santos

In response to feedback from businesses, Singapore’s antitrust regulator is planning to streamline its merger review process to make it simpler and quicker, especially for the majority of deals that don’t rais... (more story)

Copagril-Cia Paraná de Alimentos asset deal required notification to Brazil CADE June 11, 2025 | Flavia Fortes

The Brazilian competition authority ruled today that Cooperativa Agroindustrial Copagril and Cia Paraná de Alimentos should have notified the authority of the sale of supermarket assets before closing their tr... (more story)

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Gun-jumping ruling by Brazil’s CADE cautions practitioners on merger filing disclosures June 13, 2025 | Flavia Fortes

The Brazilian competition authority ruled this week that Copagril and Paraná Supermercados jumped the gun and failed to notify the sale of supermarket assets to the authority — a transaction the regulator lear... (more story)

US FTC advertising collusion probe dials up antitrust pressure on ad agencies June 11, 2025 | Chris May, Alex Wilts, Ilana Kowarski and Clayton Vickers

Revelations about a US Federal Trade Commission probe into whether conservative publishers were targeted by illegal group boycotts from advertisers has upped the ante for an industry already facing state and c... (more story)

US Steel-Nippon Steel 'de novo' CFIUS review marks further politicization of process June 11, 2025 | Curtis Eichelberger and Wesley Brown

Former President Joe Biden and current President Donald Trump both politicized the national security review process in Nippon Steel’s proposed acquisition of US Steel. Biden did it for votes in a national elec... (more story)

Unimed Cascavel, Policlínica question CADE Superintendence's deal block in Brazil June 09, 2025 | Henrique Santiago

Unimed Cascavel and Hospital Policlínica said their proposed transaction would reinforce the existing vertical integration between Unimed Cascavel’s medical-hospital health plans and the general hospital servi... (more story)

Qualcomm’s second grab for Autotalks highlights shift in global merger scrutiny June 06, 2025 | Andrew Boyce and Lewis Crofts

Qualcomm’s completion of its Autotalks acquisition, apparently without a squeak from regulators, shows the changed climate for dealmaking little more than a year on from the US chipmaker abandoning its first a... (more story)

US Supreme Court has opportunity to take up rule of reason standard for joint ventures June 05, 2025 | Flavia Fortes

The stage is set for the US Supreme Court to decide whether to take up American Airlines’ request to review a lower court ruling on its joint venture with JetBlue — a case that could clarify the application of... (more story)

Keysight divestiture for US DOJ mirrors FTC's remedy for Synopsys June 03, 2025 | Ilana Kowarski

Keysight Technologies, a network testing hardware and software provider, and acquisition target Spirent Communications reached a divestiture settlement with the US Department of Justice regarding their $1.5 bi... (more story)

Charter-Cox US antitrust review to focus on broadband, retransmission fees, buildout May 29, 2025 | Curtis Eichelberger and Wesley Brown

The US Department of Justice’s antitrust review of Charter Communications’ proposed $34.5 billion acquisition of Cox Communications will likely be decided by competition among broadband providers. The Federal ... (more story)