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China issues first gun-jumping fine under new merger-penalty guidelines
China’s top merger-control regulator has fined a state-owned construction company for gun-jumping, marking the first enforcement action taken under the country’s ne... (more story)
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ANA-Nippon Cargo deal sets new record for China's review suspension
China's antitrust regulator has approved ANA Holdings' acquisition of Nippon Cargo Airlines with conditions, following what appears to be the longest review suspens... (more story)
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Australia's final merger rules clarify threshold calculations, review fees
As Australia's new merger-control system comes into effect today on a voluntary basis, the government has finalized the regulations underpinning the new regime, pro... (more story)
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EU judges quizzed Booking and the European Commission today over the evidence it used to block the online travel agent’s bid for Etraveli, drilling down into what made the latter’s platform “unique” and likely... (more story)
While Australia’s mandatory, suspensory merger regime came into effect on a voluntary basis from July 1, the country’s competition regulator is continuing to update its guidance designed to help businesses man... (more story)
Booking told EU judges today that merger enforcers incorrectly vetoed its takeover of Etraveli as they didn’t show enough evidence to prove it would harm competition. As well as arguing at the General Court th... (more story)
Booking argued in court today that EU regulators wrongly blocked its takeover of flight-booking service Etraveli based on a speculative “counterfactual” that predicted that the online travel giant would sell “... (more story)
Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Juniper Networks told the US Department of Justice that national security interests supported a settlement that would allow the companies to merge, according to a court filing. T... (more story)
Officials at the Brazilian competition authority have recommended that Japanese machinery maker Sintokogio’s proposed acquisition of French metal abrasives supplier Elastikos be approved with conditions. The d... (more story)
Booking and Etraveli clashed in court today with EU merger regulators over their 2023 decision to veto a merger between the two online travel services. A lawyer for Booking described the watchdog’s theory as “... (more story)
The Autoriteit Consument & Markt, the Netherlands’ antitrust regulator, is calling on political parties to consider new ways to tackle powerful cloud services, small acquisitions and distortions of competition... (more story)
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Luxembourgish satellite company SES and Intelsat, a Luxembourgish-American company that provides satellite services, have received conditional approval from Team Telecom, clearing a major hurdle for completing... (more story)
Ipiranga, Vibra and Petroleo Sabbá have each filed appeals against the approval by the Brazilian competition authority’s investigatory unit of Grupo Atem’s acquisition of river transporter WPL. The agency’s Tr... (more story)
One year after Labour came to power, fresh policy plans suggest that the UK government might be giving itself leeway for wider intervention in mergers to protect economic interests and enable domestic business... (more story)
Global ad agency holding companies Omnicom and Interpublic secured authorization from the US Federal Trade Commission for their proposed merger by making a novel behavioral commitment — a promise not to engage... (more story)
A US Supreme Court opinion that federal court judges lack authority to impose universal injunctions won't stop those judges from issuing injunctions in data privacy disputes or run-of-the-mill antitrust cases ... (more story)
A deal to spin off TikTok’s US social media platform to American investors could come soon after a trade deal with China is finalized. The company and the Trump administration have had a deal in place with pri... (more story)
Colorado enacted last month the Uniform Antitrust Pre-Merger Notification Act, a law requiring companies to notify their deals from all industries to the state, making it the second state to enact a broad, ind... (more story)
The recent settlement with Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Juniper Networks shows US antitrust officials are open to cut a deal at any stage of the process and with unique solutions, such as a hybrid remedy tha... (more story)