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Alaska Air urges US court to freeze discovery pending merger challenge ruling January 23, 2026 | Flavia Fortes

Alaska Air Group has asked a federal court in Hawaii to stay discovery in a private antitrust lawsuit filed by travelers who are seeking to unwind Alaska’s acquisition of Hawaiian Airlines, arguing that plaint... (more story)

France's Coeuré calls for clarity on innovation, resilience in EU merger rules January 23, 2026 | Anna Ferrari and Nicholas Hirst

Companies are “throwing words such as innovation, investment, resilience, at enforcers” to “see what happens,” French competition authority chair Benoît Coeuré said Thursday, calling it “very important” for th... (more story)

Italy’s Finance Ministry, Retelit again withdraw EU filing on Sparkle deal January 23, 2026 | Andrew Boyce

Italy’s Ministry of Economy and Finance and telecom company Retelit have again pulled their EU filing on plans to buy Telecom Italia’s undersea cable unit, Sparkle. They withdrew the filing at the European Com... (more story)

China blocks utility merger in second below-threshold prohibition January 23, 2026 | MLex Staff

China's antitrust regulator blocked a joint venture among five bottled gas suppliers in southern Guangdong Province, marking its first ban in the utilities sector. This is the second time it prohibited a deal ... (more story)

Salesforce–Qualified deal faces notification after waiver refusal in Australia January 23, 2026 | Saloni Sinha

Customer relationship management-software provider Salesforce will be required to notify Australia’s competition regulator if it wishes to proceed with its proposed acquisition of US-based Qualified.com, after... (more story)

Paramount extends tender for Warners, says Netflix offer could drop in value January 22, 2026 | Curtis Eichelberger

Paramount Skydance extended its $30 per share all-cash tender offer for Warner Bros. Discovery to Feb. 20 and filed preliminary proxy materials with the US Securities and Exchange Commission in which it asked ... (more story)

Resilience ‘inherent’ to competition policy, EU’s Loriot says January 22, 2026 | Andrew Boyce

The need to make markets “resilient” to shocks is “inherent” to competition policy, according to the EU’s top merger official. Guillaume Loriot pointed to a speech by Canada’s prime minister Mark Carney on Tue... (more story)

Car auction buyout on track for UK clearance with exiting defense January 22, 2026 | Jon Menon

Constellation Developments, the US owner of British Car Auctions, is on track for UK clearance to buy rival ABVR Holdings after the antitrust regulator accepted that the target company would have exited the ma... (more story)

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US FCC could make textualist argument to claim authority over national TV ownership cap January 21, 2026 | Wesley Brown

While US Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr says the agency is “looking at” its authority to change the national television ownership cap of 39 percent, textualism could play a key role. T... (more story)

Nexstar, Tegna argument for expanding relevant US market gets assist from Oscars January 21, 2026 | Curtis Eichelberger

The Oscars, the awards the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences passes out each year to honor Hollywood’s best performances, finds itself at the center of a federal antitrust debate that could be critic... (more story)

Netflix bid for Warner raises monopolization issue January 20, 2026 | Flavia Fortes and Curtis Eichelberger

Netflix has the board of Warner Brothers Discovery's support for its $82.7 billion acquisition offer and it is confident that antitrust enforcers won't apply a traditional market definition that leads to high ... (more story)

UK merger panel changes may give green light to lobbying January 20, 2026 | Jon Menon

The scrapping of the panel system in the UK that oversees in-depth merger reviews and market probes will put more power in the hands of senior executives at the antitrust watchdog, raising the risk of increase... (more story)

China, US dominate deals with security conditions as UK eyes nuanced trade path January 19, 2026 | Jon Menon

Companies with links to China and US made up more than half of deals that were freighted with conditions to protect UK national security last year, as the UK navigates the need to seek economic trade gains but... (more story)

Antitrust enforcer says user privacy on radar for US state enforcement January 16, 2026 | Clayton Vickers, Chris May, Alex Wilts and Ilana Kowarski

US state antitrust enforcers are in the early stages of examining the privacy implications of mergers and market competition.

Trump’s involvement in Warner deal follows past presidential moves (FTCWatch) January 16, 2026 | Claude Marx

When President Donald Trump promised to get involved in reviewing the sale of Warner Brothers Discovery, he was echoing the practice of some previous chief executives who played a role in the outcome of antitr... (more story)

China's solar competitiveness push hits antitrust wall January 14, 2026 | MLex Staff

China is trying to keep its solar supply chain globally competitive while curbing destructive price wars at home. That balancing act becomes harder when “price discipline” blurs the line between lawful adjustm... (more story)