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How increased transparency could affect Australia's merger landscape
Australia’s new merger regime was designed to be more transparent than the informal notification mechanism it’s set to replace. More deals are set to appear on the ... (more story)
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Trump orders Suirui International acquisition of Jupiter to be unwound
US President Donald Trump ordered Suirui International’s 2020 acquisition of Jupiter Systems to be unwound within the next 120 days, after an investigation by the C... (more story)
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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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Chinese company FTDI Holding has lost a High Court appeal to overturn a UK government decision to make it divest its holding in a British semiconductor developer to safeguard national security. The company had... (more story)
Charter Communications and Cox Communications filed their Hart-Scott-Rodino premerger notification forms with the US Department of Justice on July 14, Charter told MLex.
Alphabet, the parent company of Google, has notified to EU regulators that it's hiring technical experts from Deepsense.ai. The deal will also allow non-exclusive, simultaneous access to the same IP rights. G... (more story)
The US Federal Communications Commission approved the merger of Skydance with Paramount Global today after an open meeting in which the agency chairman praised commitments by the companies to promote viewpoint... (more story)
Private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts is under investigation by the EU’s competition regulator over suspicions it provided “incorrect or misleading” information when seeking approval to buy Telecom Itali... (more story)
Saipem’s planned merger with energy services rival Subsea7 is to be reviewed by the UK antitrust regulator and will need Italian government approval. The transaction will create a 21 billion-euro revenue compa... (more story)
China's antitrust regulator has ordered Wuhan Yongtong Pharmaceutical to unwind its 2018 acquisition of Shandong Beida Gaoke Huatai Pharmaceutical, marking an unusual retrospective intervention against a compl... (more story)
United States Steel Corporation told a US federal judge today it intends to amend an antitrust complaint against Cleveland-Cliffs Inc's allegations over a Sherman Act conspiracy and resulting damages still sta... (more story)
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Mexico has overhauled its antitrust legal framework with a major reform to the country’s competition law. Amendments published last week create a new competition authority — the National Antitrust Commission (... (more story)
Universal Music Group will be relieved to see the EU’s competition regulator overlook some of the trickiest concerns raised by independent record labels when opening an in-depth probe this week into its takeov... (more story)
China’s antitrust regulator has broken new ground by unwinding a completed pharmaceutical acquisition, marking its first-ever full rollback of a consummated deal. In a historic move, the State Administration f... (more story)
UniCredit’s withdrawal of its bid for rival Banco BPM due to the Italian “golden power” rules is raising important questions for the EU about how much sway European governments should have over dealmaking in s... (more story)
In clearing T-Mobile’s acquisition of US Cellular this month, the US Department of Justice performed a balancing of anticompetitive harms and merger benefits, ultimately finding that the likelihood of efficien... (more story)
The UK government’s changes to national security rules will seek to avoid harmless transactions from being scrutinized to reduce the burden for businesses making acquisitions. The overhaul has been welcomed, e... (more story)
A discussion paper release by Australian financial and competition regulators has outlined the most likely solution to the problem of how best to manage the country’s distribution of cash with only one commerc... (more story)
The Ferrero Group and WK Kellogg have overlaps in granola products, but the company will file their Hart-Scott-Rodino premerger notifications no later than Aug. 14 and will ask the government for early termina... (more story)