Deal-makers should come forward early and tout the benefits of a transaction, not when it is too late. That has been the entreaty of EU merger enforcers for over a year, but now it has a poster-child for the p... (more story)

In the trial over Loctite and Liquid Nails' proposed merger, US District Judge Katherine Failla must answer a difficult question: whether a product manufacturer's market share and overall market power can be b... (more story)

Adam Candeub, President Donald Trump's nominee to oversee antitrust enforcement at the US Department of Justice, must clear procedural and institutional hurdles before he can implement any vision for the futur... (more story)

For more than a decade, merging parties have pointed to the expansion of Big Tech into adjacent industries as evidence that traditional market boundaries no longer reflect competitive reality. That issue is no... (more story)

A federal judge handed state attorneys general another early procedural win in merger litigation by temporarily blocking Paramount's acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery. But the court's decision to fast-trac... (more story)

For years, defining narrow relevant markets around a subset of premium products has been a controversial legal strategy in merger enforcement. States challenging the proposed Paramount-Warner combination are n... (more story)

The US Supreme Court’s decision in Trump v. Slaughter strengthened the president’s authority over formerly independent agencies such as the US Surface Transportation Board, but it remains to be seen whether th... (more story)

California Attorney General Rob Bonta said a lawsuit against the proposed merger by Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery is about much more than one Hollywood transaction. Bonta’s message is that California is... (more story)