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China’s FTDI loses court appeal over UK government’s national security order July 25, 2025 | Jon Menon

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, Cox filed HSR paperwork with US DOJ July 14 July 25, 2025 | Curtis Eichelberger

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.

Google reports hiring of Deepsense.ai’s technical experts July 25, 2025 | Anna Ferrari and Andrew Boyce

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)

US FCC approves Skydance merger with Paramount Global July 24, 2025 | Wesley Brown

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)

KKR draws EU probe over information supplied in TIM deal review (update*) July 24, 2025 | Andrew Boyce

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-Subsea7 merger to see UK antitrust review July 24, 2025 | Jon Menon

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 blocks completed vertical pharma deal in rare post merger move July 24, 2025 | MLex Staff

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)

US Steel, Nippon say conspiracy, damages claims merit new complaint against Cleveland-Cliffs July 24, 2025 | Khushita Vasant

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 tightens antitrust scrutiny with new regulatory regime July 25, 2025 | Flavia Fortes

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)

UMG will welcome tight focus of EU’s Downtown probe July 25, 2025 | Andrew Boyce

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 breaks new ground with reversal of first pharmaceutical deal July 25, 2025 | MLex Staff

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)

Doomed UniCredit-BPM bid raises questions about government role in EU mergers July 24, 2025 | Jean Comte

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)

US clearance of T-Mobile deal shows viability of efficiencies claims under Trump July 23, 2025 | Ilana Kowarski and Flavia Fortes

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)

UK’s freshened security rules seen as a positive move July 23, 2025 | Jon Menon

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)

Regulators ready to regulate, as Australia grapples with cash-distribution monopoly July 22, 2025 | James Panichi

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)

Ferrero Group and WK Kellogg overlap in granola; largely complementary in US July 21, 2025 | Curtis Eichelberger

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)