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Merger of leading Japanese drugstore operators Aeon, Tsuruha approved conditionally
Japanese retail giant Aeon’s proposed merger with Tsuruha Holdings, which would create the largest drugstore group in Japan, received conditional approval today fro... (more story)
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CK Hutchison port deal faces Chinese warning about evading review
China's antitrust regulator has warned parties involved in CK Hutchison's proposed sale of a large portion of its port operations against evading regulatory scrutin... (more story)
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Trump, Ferguson say Humphrey’s Executor inapplicable to fired US FTC members
President Trump and US Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson told a federal judge that governing precedent under the landmark Humphrey’s Executor case i... (more story)
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Spirit AeroSystems workers and union officials met with UK lawmakers today to urge the government to intervene in the proposed partial divestment of assets. Airbus this week agreed to take certain money-losing... (more story)
EU merger enforcers will keep a close eye on governments intervening in mergers on public-interest grounds — such as security or media plurality — to ensure they don’t fragment Europe’s economy at a time when ... (more story)
Satellite company SES has requested the EU Commission's approval for its planned acquisition of Intelsat, which provides satellite services. The commission has set a June 10 deadline to decide on the deal.
Japanese retail giant Aeon’s proposed merger with Tsuruha Holdings, which would create the largest drugstore group in Japan, received conditional approval today from the Japan Fair Trade Commission. The merger... (more story)
EU powers to review the distortive impact of subsidies from countries such as China, Russia and the Middle East are becoming more predictable and less burdensome as the European Commission gains more experienc... (more story)
Law firm King & Wood Mallesons announced today it had snagged the services of a key lawyer involved in the antitrust watchdog’s delicate role in paving the way for the new merger regime. In a statement, the fi... (more story)
US Supreme Court justices asked tough questions of both parties today in a case aimed at determining if uninjured parties can be part of a certified class in class-action litigation. And for the most part, the... (more story)
A Republican bill seeking to eliminate the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Competition and transfer and consolidate the agency’s antitrust powers to the Department of Justice will be marked up by the US H... (more story)
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Mediobanca yesterday revealed a bid for rival Banca Generali, adding complexity to dealmaking in the Italian baking sector, in which Mediobanca is itself a target of Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena, or MPS. It... (more story)
US states are ramping up antitrust enforcement, with several enacting broader antitrust laws and new requirements for companies to provide advance notice of proposed transactions. While these state-specific la... (more story)
US Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson has faced criticism from the US business community for his alleged support for heavy-handed regulation, but one newspaper recently crossed a line. The Wall ... (more story)
Under conventional antitrust analysis, companies acting independently to raise prices receive significant protection from antitrust enforcement. But in markets where foreign companies compete, that analysis fa... (more story)
Global advertising agencies Omnicom Group and Interpublic Group, which are trying to combine in a deal that faces scrutiny from the US Federal Trade Commission, were founding members of a now-defunct ad indust... (more story)
Petz and Cobasi’s main rival has made a second effort to participate in the deal review, arguing to Brazil’s competition watchdog that the deal is harmful to a fair competition environment. But the two merging... (more story)
The European M&A landscape for companies backed by foreign states looks more complicated, in light of newly published documents that show the dealmaking of UAE telecom operator Etisalat — known as e& — will fa... (more story)
British Steel’s rescue with the emergency passage of new law on Saturday signals a harder line in the UK government's vetting of buyouts involving Chinese companies in sensitive areas of the economy. The gover... (more story)