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Japan's plan to tighten FDI screening revives security–investment trade-off
Japan is considering expanding foreign investment screening to cover indirect acquisitions of Japanese companies, aligning its rules more closely with other industr... (more story)
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China mandates price caps on American Axle's Dowlais deal despite EV shift
China's antitrust regulator has imposed stringent price curbs on American Axle & Manufacturing's takeover of Dowlais Group in conditionally approving the $1.44 bill... (more story)
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Global regulators following India's lead on merger remedies, CCI's chief says
In a significant shift in the global merger-control landscape, India, which was once seen as a follower of EU standards, has developed a distinctive enforcement phi... (more story)
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Lionsgate Studios Corp. has appointed former Treasury Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin to its board of directors, the company said in a US Securities and Exchange Commission filing. Mnuchin formerly produced severa... (more story)
Taiwan's Fair Trade Commission has raised merger-notification thresholds for the first time in more than a decade, easing regulatory requirements for dealmakers as the island's economy continues to grow. The r... (more story)
Affinity Equity Partners’ bid to acquire a 63.5 percent stake in Lotte Rental has been blocked by South Korea’s antitrust watchdog, which warned the tie-up would likely push up rent-a-car prices by eliminating... (more story)
Despite arguments from Edwards Lifesciences and JenaValve that their merger is in the interest of American patients, US judge Rudolph Contreras sided with the US Federal Trade Commission that the companies com... (more story)
The Brazilian competition authority has rejected third party Petlove's appeal of a decision approving the merger between Petz and Cobasi, the two largest pet care companies in Brazil. The rival company is the ... (more story)
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)
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 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)
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Japan is considering expanding foreign investment screening to cover indirect acquisitions of Japanese companies, aligning its rules more closely with other industrialized economies amid rising economic securi... (more story)
The new TikTok USDS joint venture is emphasizing security as it announces its new ownership structure after a years-long attempt to force the company to divest from Chinese ownership, which ultimately succeede... (more story)
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)
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 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)
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)
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)
US state antitrust enforcers are in the early stages of examining the privacy implications of mergers and market competition.