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Broadcom under scrutiny in China for potential breach of merger promises
Broadcom is facing scrutiny from China's antitrust regulator over allegations that the US chipmaking giant violated key pledges it made to secure Chinese approval f... (more story)
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Omnicon-Interpublic deal raises antitrust concerns in Australia, New Zealand
The regulatory reverberations of Omnicom Group’s proposed $13.25 billion acquisition of the Interpublic Group of Companies has reached Australia, where the competit... (more story)
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Synopsys submits at least two rounds of remedy proposals to SAMR for Ansys deal
Synopsys has submitted at least two remedy proposals since China’s top merger regulator officially communicated competition concerns regarding its planned acquisiti... (more story)
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Facebook had massive penetration among social media users and network effects that gave the social media platform an advantage over other rivals which was “not easy” for Google+ to copy, a former Google execut... (more story)
The Brazilian competition authority's Superintendence recommended the conditional approval of a network-sharing agreement between telecom firms TIM and Telefônica. Presented as amendments to two previously app... (more story)
The US Federal Trade Commission is cutting its workforce by about 200 employees, or 15 percent, to rein in "bloated" overspending that pushed its workforce over 1,300 employees following a "two-year hiring spr... (more story)
The EU review of Italian bank UniCredit’s plan to buy national rival Banco BPM has been extended by two weeks, to June 19, after a national authority asked the European Commission to transfer the probe. The It... (more story)
The chairman of the US Federal Trade Commission said the agency won’t stand in the way of mergers and acquisitions and will focus on assessing a deal’s risk to competition as quickly as possible. Andrew Fergus... (more story)
EU countries are nearing agreement on their position for the foreign direct investment screening revamp, with June set as the target deadline. Poland, chairing talks until next month’s end, is optimistic about... (more story)
Greencore has indicated that its 1.2 billion-pound ($1.6 billion) acquisition of Bakkavor Group in the convenience food sector will be probed by the UK antitrust watchdog, though it anticipates only an initial... (more story)
Abu Dhabi National Oil Company has sought EU foreign subsidy approval for its plan to take over German chemicals group Covestro, MLex has learned. The European Commission will now have 25 working days to decid... (more story)
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Coming changes to merger law in the UK will formally restrict the competition regulator’s ability to block deals and cement a less interventionist approach more broadly, in line with the Labour government's do... (more story)
Andrew Leigh has been reappointed as Australia’s competition minister, with added responsibility for boosting the workforce’s weak productivity gains in recent years. In an interview with MLex, Leigh said stro... (more story)
US Federal Trade Commissioner Mark Meador described his competition law enforcement philosophy as “neutral and fair,” meaning neither hostile nor obsequious toward business. Meador promised to find a middle gr... (more story)
A federal appeals court ruling last week in favor of Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision underscores the obstacles to contesting vertical mergers in US courts. The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit d... (more story)
Vivendi will likely tells EU judges tomorrow that protections for the press over keeping sources confidential must prevent EU investigators probing an alleged breach of merger rules from demanding its journali... (more story)
Finnish technology champion Nokia told the EU merger regulator that buying rival Infinera would create the necessary scale to innovate and stay competitive against US and Chinese rivals — an argument that poli... (more story)
Last week marked 100 days since the start of Andrew Ferguson’s leadership of the US Federal Trade Commission, and while the new chairman has frequently talked the talk of a full-throated Trump populist, the wa... (more story)
The Brazilian competition authority is reviewing a codeshare agreement between Azul Linhas Aereas and Gol Linhas Aereas for a second time after the agency’s Tribunal raised concerns about a potential gun jumpi... (more story)