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Fox-Roku deal faces in-depth US DOJ antitrust review September 09, 2026 | Flavia Fortes

Fox and Roku have received a second request from the US Department of Justice over their proposed $22 billion deal, extending the antitrust review of a transaction that would bring together Fox's media assets ... (more story)

Goodwin's sale of defense assets to Cerberus needs UK security clearance September 09, 2026 | Jon Menon

UK engineering and manufacturing group Goodwin has said that its sale of defense assets to private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management, for as much as £1.1 billion, will need national security clearance fr... (more story)

Bunge and CMG seek EU approval for joint control of Polish grain terminal September 09, 2026 | Jean Comte

Bunge and Copenhagen Merchants Group have requested European Commission approval to acquire joint control of a dry bulk terminal at the Polish port of Gdynia. The move follows almost one year of pre-notificati... (more story)

Booking loses EU court bid to annul Etraveli takeover (update*) September 09, 2026 | Nicholas Hirst and Lewis Crofts

Booking Holdings’s bid to buy online flight reservation company Etraveli threatened competition, judges ruled Wednesday, upholding the European Commission’s veto on the deal. Although the court faulted the com... (more story)

Australia's new merger regime saw 450 filings in first six months, official says September 09, 2026 | Saloni Sinha

Australia’s competition watchdog received nearly 450 merger notifications and waiver applications in the first six months of its new mandatory merger regime, compared with about 330 notifications a year under ... (more story)

Repligen, BioLife receive US approval, await stockholder adoption September 08, 2026 | Wesley Brown

Repligen and BioLife Solutions received US antitrust approval for their $1.5 billion merger on Sept. 3 with the expiration of their Hart-Scott-Rodino Act waiting period.

Air Liquide, Lumiar say Brazil CADE market test must be analyzed in context September 08, 2026 | Maria Júlia Baumert

Air Liquide Brasil and Grupo Lumiar say responses to a Brazilian competition authority market test for their planned merger should be assessed in context, insisting that comments about regional reach, technica... (more story)

Novamed, Sanofi say concerns raised in Brazil CADE market test are mitigated September 08, 2026 | Maria Júlia Baumert

Novamed and Sanofi have responded to concerns raised by customers and competitors in a market test conducted by Brazil’s competition authority for its review of Novamed’s planned acquisition of Medley, Sanofi’... (more story)

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Victory over Booking spells EU warning for tech-platform deals September 09, 2026 | Nicholas Hirst and Lewis Crofts

Dominant companies will cast a worrisome eye over their M&A plans following an EU court ruling on Wednesday that could curb any expansion that calcifies an already uncompetitive market. Booking’s failure to ov... (more story)

Saipem and Subsea7 see EU review derail merger timeline September 08, 2026 | Nicholas Hirst and Jean Comte

A recent decision by the European Commission to pause its ongoing review of the intended Saipem7 deal is putting an end to any expectation that the deal could close by the end of the year — the official date f... (more story)

Union Pacific disputes US need for competition enhancements to close merger September 03, 2026 | Ilana Kowarski and Curtis Eichelberger

Union Pacific Railroad and Norfolk Southern Railway are challenging the US Surface Transportation Board's authority to condition their proposed merger on measures intended to promote competition, arguing that ... (more story)

Nvidia's Hugging Face openness pledge identifies US, EU antitrust fault line September 03, 2026 | Flavia Fortes and Andrew Boyce

Nvidia’s promise to preserve Hugging Face as an open, hardware-neutral platform anticipates what is likely to become the central issue in the antitrust reviews of its $12.93 billion acquisition: whether the do... (more story)

US CFIUS on-site mitigation inspections drop to historical average under Trump September 03, 2026 | Curtis Eichelberger

Companies and investors subject to US national security agreements are facing fewer on-site inspections under President Donald Trump, as his administration scales back a Biden-era expansion of mitigation overs... (more story)

New EU merger approach's pro-scale promise faces early test with upcoming deals September 03, 2026 | Andrew Boyce and Nicholas Hirst

A string of transactions is set to test EU policymakers' claims that the bloc's new merger guidelines will aid dealmaking and help foster European companies with sufficient scale to invest in innovation, compe... (more story)

US FTC's oil-deal probes under Biden buoy consumers’ private price-fixing claims September 02, 2026 | Clayton Vickers

Biden-era US Federal Trade Commission investigations of the Exxon-Pioneer and Chevron-Hess merger deals have backed up private price-fixing claims brought by consumers against shale oil producers and two previ... (more story)

B3's portfolio power poses challenge for CRDC acquisition in Brazil September 01, 2026 | Maria Júlia Baumert

Brazilian stock exchange operator B3's acquisition of credit registry CRDC and a related partnership with the São Paulo Commercial Association are scheduled for a Wednesday vote in Brazil's competition Tribuna... (more story)