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Mergers and Acquisitions
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SM Energy-Civitas deal gets early clearance in US
SM Energy Co. and Civitas Resources have received antitrust clearance for their $12.8 billion deal, according to the US Federal Trade Commission.
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Novartis-Avidity Biosciences deal gets early clearance in US
Novartis and Avidity Biosciences have received antitrust clearance for their $12 billion deal from the US competition authorities. On Dec. 17, the agencies granted ... (more story)
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US FTC's Henkel-A-Paint challenge relies on structural presumption, hot docs
The US Federal Trade Commission's lawsuit to block Henkel AG & Co. KGaA, the manufacturer of Loctite, from acquiring competitor Liquid Nails from private equity fir... (more story)
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China’s top merger-control regulator has fined two Zhejiang companies a combined 1.7 million yuan ($240,000) for gun-jumping, its fourth publicly disclosed unlawful merger case this year. For the first time si... (more story)
Prosus was given six months less than it had before to reduce its 27 percent holding in Delivery Hero, as part of discussions with the European Commission over acquiring Just Eat Takeaway.com. The tech investo... (more story)
Skyworks and Qorvo intend to pull and refile Hart-Scott-Rodino Act premerger notification filings in early January, according to a securities filing. The companies filed their notification forms with the US Fe... (more story)
Commercial refrigeration system maker Epta has requested European Commission authorization for its intended acquisition of Hauser, which supplies commercial refrigeration and related equipment for food retail.... (more story)
The US Department of Justice, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and a coalition of state attorneys general have asked a federal judge in California to resolve a dispute over how confidential information may be used i... (more story)
Concerns over labor market monopsony in merger reviews continue to be an area of focus for the US Federal Trade Commission, which is also targeting noncompete clauses in employee contracts directly through inv... (more story)
Belgian construction group Stadsbader purchased EQOS's Belgian assets, following Eiffage's commitment to divest those assets as a remedy to its buyout of EQOS, according to a document published on Monday by th... (more story)
Belgium’s Vandemoortele has gained provisional UK approval to buy Délifrance after the companies offered to divest certain assets to ease antitrust concerns over the supply of frozen bakery products. The compa... (more story)
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US state attorneys general are emerging as increasingly assertive and independent actors in merger enforcement, reshaping the antitrust landscape amid a more politicized federal review environment. States are ... (more story)
The US Federal Communication Commission under Chairman Brendan Carr increased activity and showed clear viewpoint changes in 2025, and utilizing its view of the "public interest" to back up its positions is a ... (more story)
Getty Images and Shutterstock didn't see eye to eye with the UK merger regulator over market share and the impact of Big Tech and AI in its initial review of their merger. The CMA rejected a proposed stock und... (more story)
Paramount’s $108 billion bid to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery isn’t likely to give the combined company such a large piece of the market that the law will presume the deal to be anticompetitive, but it still ... (more story)
Netflix will hope European competition enforcers see the market for TV content as a broad and diverse package bringing together various free and subscription content, if it is to win the race for Warner Bros. ... (more story)
The US Federal Trade Commission's lawsuit to block Henkel AG & Co. KGaA, the manufacturer of Loctite, from acquiring competitor Liquid Nails from private equity firm American Industrial Partners and A-Paint, r... (more story)
The video compression patent licensing market will be transformed by Access Advance’s planned acquisition of the Via LA HEVC/VVC program. Time will tell if the consolidation of core technologies by Google, App... (more story)
In a conventional US antitrust review, neither Paramount’s nor Netflix’s proposed buyout of Warner Bros. Discovery would escape government scrutiny because both deals create at least one significant horizontal... (more story)