Officials from the European Commission, the UK Competition and Markets Authority — and also representatives of Saipem and Subsea7 — have held separate meetings with... (more story)
The US Federal Trade Commission’s challenge to a merger between two rival outdoor commercial playground builders — PlayPower and BCI Burke — includes several novel ... (more story)
Australia’s competition watchdog has defended the broad reach of the new mandatory merger regime ahead of Treasury’s review of notification thresholds, saying it is... (more story)
Canadian Pacific Railway Co. urged the US Surface Transportation Board to end its review of the Union Pacific-Norfolk Southern rail deal because of shippers’ allegations that Union Pacific Chief Executive Jim ... (more story)
Brazil’s competition authority is reviewing Alcoa’s proposed acquisition of South32’s bauxite, alumina and primary aluminum business. The deal would give Alcoa control of South32 entities holding interests in ... (more story)
NextEra and Dominion Energy’s rebuttal testimony in Virginia's regulatory review of their merger will be filed Monday and will focus on the “do no harm” legal standard, Dominion Chief Executive Officer Bob Blu... (more story)
A vessel divestiture in the proposed Saipem-Subsea7 merger should focus on whether a buyer could and would operate the assets in Brazil, not just relocate the vessels, the Brazilian competition authority’s eco... (more story)
Apple informed the European Commission on June 30 of its intended purchase of data engineering platform Ascend.io. As a designated “gatekeeper” under the EU’s Digital Markets Act, Apple is required to tell the... (more story)
Whether competition cases referred by national courts should be heard by the EU's lower-tier court rather than remain at its highest court will come up for debate in future reform efforts, EU Court of Justice ... (more story)
Intesa Sanpaolo will get a decision by the Italian competition authority by the end of November regarding its intended takeover of rival Monte dei Paschi di Siena, MLex has learned. Intesa said on Friday that ... (more story)
The six significant European merger investigations completed so far in 2026 are an exceedingly low volume, according to a Dechert law firm quarterly report, and put the EU on pace for the lowest annual total m... (more story)
DoorDash’s proposed $17 billion acquisition of Instacart is likely to draw an in-depth investigation from US federal and state antitrust regulators as the merger carries the potential to eliminate a growing co... (more story)
State attorneys general say they prefer federal antitrust agencies take the lead in resolving illegal corporate mergers, but promise to take matters into their own hands when the federal government shirks its ... (more story)
Can Sino-Australian miner MMG persuade the EU merger regulator that it will keep a promise to supply ferronickel to European steelmakers once it has bought a key mine in Brazil? That will likely depend on how ... (more story)
Europe’s system for reviewing M&A activity is built on “mutual trust,” and “any circumstance” to undermine it endangers the entire architecture, the EU enforcer has said. By turning up the heat on KKR and King... (more story)
The "Project Bromo" space-exploration joint venture by Airbus, Thales and Leonardo, intended to rival SpaceX, has the political winds behind it and can hope for approval after a phase I review, subject to a ma... (more story)
A French antitrust fine this week for creating a medical waste treatment monopoly in the overseas territory of La Reunion is unlikely to be appealed: It was a symbolic €1 on each party involved as it was a fir... (more story)
Casino operators Fertitta Entertainment and Caesars Entertainment can be expected to tell regulators examining their proposed merger that geographic antitrust markets should be defined broadly due to an increa... (more story)
The lead councilor reviewing Saipem’s proposed acquisition of Subsea7 at Brazil’s competition authority has met internally with the agency’s prosecutors and economists to discuss the transaction. Officials als... (more story)
Delivery company DoorDash intends to acquire rival Instacart for roughly $17 billion.To add details to this portfolio regarding legal or economic representatives, please contact editors@mlex.com
MiMedx Group has agreed to acquire Sanara MedTech in a cash and stock transaction with a total enterprise value of about $350 million. Both companies are traded on the Nasdaq.To add details to this portfolio r... (more story)
Ares Capital Corporation will acquire MidCap Financial Investment Corporation in a stock-and-cash transaction with a total enterprise value of approximately $2.6 billion. The deal is expected to close in the f... (more story)
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