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Fired US FTC Commissioner Bedoya resigns from agency, but suit continues
After nearly two months of litigation, Commissioner Alvaro Bedoya, one of two Democrats who were removed from the US Federal Trade Commission by President Donald Tr... (more story)
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Adbri swoops on divested assets in Cement Australia-BGC deal
The unusual regulatory refiling of Cement Australia’s bid for BGC Cementitious is a “fix-it-first” move that will see construction-materials company Adbri step in t... (more story)
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SES skips remedy offer in EU review of Intelsat deal
Satellite operator SES has skipped the chance to offer concessions to EU regulators reviewing its $3.1 billion acquisition of rival Intelsat. That means the Europea... (more story)
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Universal Music Group’s takeover of Downtown Music has prompted concerns from former competition regulator Amelia Fletcher, who is also a musician and record label co-founder. In a letter to the EU's competiti... (more story)
China's top merger-control regulator has raised competition concerns on three merger transactions in the first five months of this year, an official at the agency said. At a regular press conference this morni... (more story)
Shanghai market regulators have completed 402 merger reviews since 2022, when China introduced a pilot program allowing entrusted local regulators to handle simple case reviews, according to a senior official ... (more story)
UK merger control will seek to prioritize more traditional theories of harm to competition as part of an overhaul of regulatory guidance, according to a senior competition enforcer today. The regulatory proces... (more story)
American Airlines told the US Supreme Court that allowing to stand the appeals court ruling that dismantled its Northeast Alliance with JetBlue would indefinitely chill procompetitive joint ventures involving ... (more story)
Mars is facing an EU in-depth inquiry into its bid to take over snack-giant Kellanova unless it can offer remedies that ease competition concerns, MLex has learned. EU investigators highlighted market oppositi... (more story)
In response to feedback from businesses, Singapore’s antitrust regulator is planning to streamline its merger review process to make it simpler and quicker, especially for the majority of deals that don’t rais... (more story)
The Brazilian competition authority ruled today that Cooperativa Agroindustrial Copagril and Cia Paraná de Alimentos should have notified the authority of the sale of supermarket assets before closing their tr... (more story)
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The Brazilian competition authority ruled this week that Copagril and Paraná Supermercados jumped the gun and failed to notify the sale of supermarket assets to the authority — a transaction the regulator lear... (more story)
Revelations about a US Federal Trade Commission probe into whether conservative publishers were targeted by illegal group boycotts from advertisers has upped the ante for an industry already facing state and c... (more story)
Former President Joe Biden and current President Donald Trump both politicized the national security review process in Nippon Steel’s proposed acquisition of US Steel. Biden did it for votes in a national elec... (more story)
Unimed Cascavel and Hospital Policlínica said their proposed transaction would reinforce the existing vertical integration between Unimed Cascavel’s medical-hospital health plans and the general hospital servi... (more story)
Qualcomm’s completion of its Autotalks acquisition, apparently without a squeak from regulators, shows the changed climate for dealmaking little more than a year on from the US chipmaker abandoning its first a... (more story)
The stage is set for the US Supreme Court to decide whether to take up American Airlines’ request to review a lower court ruling on its joint venture with JetBlue — a case that could clarify the application of... (more story)
Keysight Technologies, a network testing hardware and software provider, and acquisition target Spirent Communications reached a divestiture settlement with the US Department of Justice regarding their $1.5 bi... (more story)
The US Department of Justice’s antitrust review of Charter Communications’ proposed $34.5 billion acquisition of Cox Communications will likely be decided by competition among broadband providers. The Federal ... (more story)