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Mergers and Acquisitions
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Simcere-Tobishi merger lawsuit verdict sets precedent in China, SAMR says
In a landmark ruling, a Chinese court has upheld the antitrust regulator's conditional approval of the merger between Hong Kong-listed pharma company Simcere and ri... (more story)
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Synopsys' buyout of Ansys gets conditional approval from South Korean regulator
Synopsys has received conditional approval from South Korea’s competition regulator for its planned acquisition of software company Ansys. Synopsys must divest Ansy... (more story)
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Trump firings at US FTC clear path for enforcement docket shake-up
While the chair of the US Federal Trade Commission has always had broad discretion to open and close cases, there were internal checks and balances within the indep... (more story)
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Petz and Cobasi, aiming to combine their businesses in the pet care sector, have vigorously opposed Petlove’s attempt to intervene in the merger review, claiming their rival wants to “promote their own private... (more story)
Alphabet has told EU regulators it has acquired Galileo AI, a US startup that produces User Interface using artificial intelligence. Alphabet, which is the parent company of Google, reported the deal to the Eu... (more story)
Nippon Steel hammered what it called a “baseless” lawsuit by US consumers challenging its acquisition of US Steel, telling a federal judge today that the case falls in “a long line” of failed litigation challe... (more story)
SES’s proposed acquisition of Intelsat has been cleared by the Brazilian competition authority without conditions. The agency said that after the transaction there will still be sufficient competition from oth... (more story)
The UK merger-control regime will keep stopping harmful deals even after it is revamped by the antitrust regulator to make it less burdensome for businesses, according to a senior executive at the Competition ... (more story)
A senior EU competition ofiicial said the body will start the review of the bloc's merger guidelines "with a broad call for evidence in the coming months." The exercise will explore how to better assess the dy... (more story)
Nominations of several members of the EU's lower-tier General Court are set to be approved by representatives of member states on March 26, according to a document seen by MLex. Two will be appointed for the n... (more story)
Packaging maker Amcor has requested EU merger approval for its plan to acquire US rival Berry Global. Amcor notified the deal to the European Commission under its “simplified” procedure, which is used to asses... (more story)
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US antitrust agencies have been filing fewer merger lawsuits in Washington, DC, which has increased trial expenses and tasked less-experienced courts with some of the federal government’s biggest, most sophist... (more story)
Rebecca Kelly Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya are challenging their firings from the US Federal Trade Commission, saying President Trump's actions are illegal and potentially undermine the FTC's independent consum... (more story)
Hong Kong's CK Hutchison may encounter a complex web of regulatory challenges in China as it seeks to divest port assets in a high-profile deal to a consortium spearheaded by BlackRock. The deal, which is sign... (more story)
The US Federal Trade Commission has many constituencies, but federal judges are one of the most important. A group of former FTC commissioners and agency officials who spoke to MLex about the unprecedented fir... (more story)
While the chair of the US Federal Trade Commission has always had broad discretion to open and close cases, there were internal checks and balances within the independent agency to keep tabs on the cases and f... (more story)
US President Donald Trump’s firing of Democratic Federal Trade Commission members Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Kelly Slaughter is setting up a likely Supreme Court fight that could dramatically reshape the executive branch.
Alphabet’s $32 billion acquisition of Israeli cloud cybersecurity startup Wiz will put global antitrust regulators’ latest thinking on acquisitions by Big Tech companies to the test. Google and Wiz abandoned t... (more story)
The Biden administration's focus on private equity firms appears to have been replaced by textbook merger analysis at the US Federal Trade Commission, as highlighted by an FTC complaint against GTCR’s proposed... (more story)