Mergers and Acquisitions

Nvidia’s proposed acquisition of Hugging Face is drawing opposition from third parties that argue the deal could allow the chipmaker to hamper competing hardware’s access to artificial intelligence models and gain sensitiv...(read more)

Personal-care company Kimberly-Clark has been conditionally cleared by the Turkish competition authority to take over healthcare company Kenvue. The acquirer is understood to have agreed to divest all of its tampon and oth...(read more)

Brazil’s examination of Loxam’s acquisition of Mills found that low barriers to entry, the availability of equipment, and competition from national and regional rivals would constrain the merged company, making it unlikely...(read more)

The European Commission should consider bringing together independent advice on competition cases into a single opinion that could better inform subsequent court scrutiny, EU General Court judge Johannes Laitenberger has s...(read more)

Unilever said it is working “constructively” with the UK antitrust regulator on a suitable remedy after the watchdog raised concerns over its plan to combine its foods business with McCormick. Unilever said that discussion...(read more)

O’Connor Fresh IGA, an independent retailer in the remote Western Australian city of Kalgoorlie, is unlikely to materially constrain Coles Supermarkets Australia’s prices or product range as significantly as rival Woolwort...(read more)

Cases before the EU's highest court may proceed more quickly, even when they raise a new legal question, after a change in approach that means no advisory opinion is needed if the answer is clear. Maciej Szpunar, first Adv...(read more)

The "cumulative effect" of increasingly complex EU laws poses fresh challenges for the EU’s lower-tier General Court, its new president, Savvas Papasavvas, said. He stressed that the judiciary was keeping pace with expandi...(read more)