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Canada's competition authority seeks input on new draft merger guidelines
Canada’s Competition Bureau is seeking feedback on a draft of its updated merger guidelines, issued to more accurately reflect the bureau’s approach to merger analy... (more story)
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Grab-GoTo merger gains momentum as Indonesia signals openness
The long-rumored merger between Southeast Asia’s two largest super apps — Grab and GoTo — appears to be gaining traction, with Indonesia’s government confirming its... (more story)
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China shields battery sector in Codelco-SQM lithium merger
China's antitrust regulator has imposed strict supply guarantees on a lithium joint venture between Chilean mining giants Codelco and SQM, signaling a priority to p... (more story)
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The US Federal Trade Commission will require Valvoline and private equity firm Greenbriar Equity Fund to divest 45 oil-change shops to get antitrust approval for their $625 million asset sale. Main Street Auto... (more story)
Brazil’s competition watchdog received a host of concerns in a new round of input from market players regarding the merger between Petz and Cobasi, the two largest pet care companies in the country, while key ... (more story)
Offshore oil services specialists Saipem and Subsea7 will need EU merger approval for their tie-up after the European Commission decided it had jurisdiction to scrutinize the deal, MLex has learned.
Brookfield Wealth Solutions’ £2.4 billion buyout of British retirement products and services company Just Group has gained UK antitrust approval, MLex has learned. The Competition and Markets Authority is unde... (more story)
Norfolk Southern’s shareholders voted on Friday to approve the company's merger with Union Pacific. The proposed transaction, with an enterprise value of $85 billion, would create America’s first transcontinen... (more story)
Thoma Bravo’s proposed acquisition of Dayforce didn’t raise competition concerns in Australia, a spokesperson for the country’s competition regulator told MLex. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commissi... (more story)
Constellation Developments, the owner of British Car Auctions, has described the basis of the UK antitrust regulator’s concerns over its buyout of ABVR Holdings as “fanciful,” as it pushed back against a decis... (more story)
German satellite-maker OHB will proactively express its concerns over the planned Airbus-Leonardo-Thales joint venture, its CEO Marco Fuchs told an analysts’ call on Thursday. The deal is expected to need appr... (more story)
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The Brazilian competition authority has seen two consecutive judgment sessions marked by an unusually tense atmosphere, as disagreements among councilors — traditionally confined to complex economic interpreta... (more story)
The planned merger between Saipem and Subsea7 is raising alarms across Brazil’s offshore oil and gas sector, with operators and suppliers warning that reduced competition could drive up costs for subsea projects.
A US judge on Monday denied the Federal Trade Commission’s bid to block the merger between GTCR and Surmodics — the first defeat of a merger challenge brought during President Donald Trump’s second term. The ... (more story)
The US antitrust review of television broadcasters Nexstar and Tegna could rest on whether the government concludes that advertisements on digital services are reasonable substitutes for broadcast TV’s 30-seco... (more story)
The record-breaking US government shutdown has entered its sixth week, creating uncertainty over how the Federal Trade Commission will handle stalled cases once furloughed staff return and whether the prolonge... (more story)
A sanction against Doctolib is the French competition watchdog's first time penalizing an acquisition as a dominance abuse, since the EU Court of Justice confirmed the possibility in its Towercast ruling. Fren... (more story)
Ryan Baasch, President Trump’s choice to be the next member of the US Federal Trade Commission, is a lawyer who knows the inside of a courtroom, even as he was the field general leading one of the most effecti... (more story)
Google has received antitrust clearance for its proposed $32 billion acquisition of cybersecurity firm Wiz, according to a notice in the US Federal Trade Commission’s early termination page — a positive develo... (more story)