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Kongsberg's notification inaugurates Australia's new mandatory merger regime
Norwegian aerospace giant Kongsberg Gruppen is behind the first deal to have been notified under Australia’s mandatory and suspensory regime, with the technology gr... (more story)
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Antitrust enforcers Alford, Rinner fired by US DOJ
Roger Alford and William Rinner, two top enforcers in the US Department of Justice's Antitrust Division, were fired yesterday following weeks of tensions with agenc... (more story)
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CK Hutchison eyes Chinese investor for port deal amid China merger review pressure
CK Hutchison confirmed today that its exclusive negotiation period with a BlackRock-led consortium for the sale of its global port operations has expired, and that ... (more story)
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Greater flexibility for the deal-value threshold is warranted to protect small Indian companies from global tech giants. A parliamentary committee report warned that the current fixed threshold of $240 million... (more story)
Representatives from Brazil’s executive and legislative branches, along with major rival Petlove, raised concerns over a potential approval of the merger between Petz and Cobasi, the two leading companies in B... (more story)
The US Justice Department supports the US Department of Transportation’s tentative decision to not renew antitrust immunity for the alliance between Delta Air Lines and Aeromexico, according to a comment submi... (more story)
The exodus of Australian government officials with M&A expertise continued this week, with one of the architects of the recent overhaul of merger laws, Annalisa Heger, announcing that she was moving to a senio... (more story)
GTCR provided a federal court details of an agreement it has in place to divest assets in hopes of resolving the US Federal Trade Commission’s competitive concerns over its acquisition of Surmodics. Ian Conner... (more story)
Investigations into potential collusion by way of pricing algorithms can be expected to ramp up as deployment of the technology becomes more prevalent across the US economy, Gail Slater, chief of the US Depart... (more story)
Naspers, the parent company of tech investor Prosus, has secured EU approval for its takeover of Just Eat Takeaway.com, after agreeing to reduce its 27.4 percent stake in rival food delivery platform Delivery ... (more story)
Norwegian aerospace giant Kongsberg Gruppen is behind the first deal to have been notified under Australia’s mandatory and suspensory regime, with the technology group’s local operation, Kongsberg Defence Aust... (more story)
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Companies receiving foreign subsidies haven't secured much clarity on when their merger deal or public procurement awards risk being called in for review by the European Commission. The institution's draft gui... (more story)
Primary Health Properties has been served with a freeze order as the UK antitrust regulator reviews its planned 1.79 billion-pound acquisition of rival British medical infrastructure provider Assura. But there... (more story)
Lobbying the White House or pitching the US Attorney General promise to become standard practice for companies seeking merger approval as the administration of US President Donald Trump reshapes merger law enforcement.
The chief of the Polish antitrust authority believes the resilience of European companies and markets ought to be the prime concern for European policymakers, taking priority even over the bloc’s environmental... (more story)
Mario Draghi prescribed a radical solution for Europe’s ailing telecom industry: market consolidation to cure chronic profitability and investment problems. But the economics that underpin the figures in his 2... (more story)
The Brazilian competition authority’s review of Grupo Bimbo’s proposed acquisition of Wickbold has entered a new phase of scrutiny, with CADE issuing a fresh round of competitors' queries that may prolong the ... (more story)
Entertainment group RTL is pointing to the minimal impact its takeover of Sky Deutschland would have on the market for TV advertising as it seeks to steer the deal past EU competition regulators, MLex has lear... (more story)
Olivier Guersent has signed off as head of the European Commission’s powerful competition directorate, serving six different commissioners and witnessing the highs and lows of the bloc’s economic policies. In ... (more story)