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Mergers and Acquisitions
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American Water, Essential Utilities biggest merger risk likely comes from PUCs
American Water Works’ acquisition of Essential Utilities will probably draw scrutiny from federal antitrust enforcers over monopsony concerns, though it is the stat... (more story)
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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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Skyworks and Qorvo have received a second request from the US Federal Trade Commission for additional information regarding their proposed deal, but Skyworks said just days ago that it remains on track to clos... (more story)
More than 50 US House Republicans asked the Surface Transportation Board to demand compelling proof from Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern to support the companies’ claims that their proposed $85 billion merg... (more story)
EU merger regulators are weighing how they could consider arguments that a merger would bring benefits such as increased investment earlier in the process, according to the bloc’s chief competition economist. ... (more story)
Indonesian lawmakers have agreed on 12 key issues in amendments to the country’s competition law, including new provisions recognizing the specific characteristics of digital markets, a shift to pre-merger not... (more story)
CK Hutchison said Wednesday that its Panama Ports Company unit has begun international arbitration against Panama after the country’s Supreme Court struck down the legal basis for its port concessions at Balbo... (more story)
South Korea’s competition watchdog said its 2025 merger reviews reflected a tilt toward larger-ticket transactions, with foreign-to-foreign deals such as Synopsys–Ansys and Mars–Kellanova among the headline co... (more story)
Netflix co-Chief Executive Officer Ted Sarandos told a US Senate subcommittee that if the acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery is approved by government antitrust enforcers, the business will increase film pro... (more story)
The proposed merger between Skyworks and Qorvo remains on track to close in 2027, and integration planning has begun, Skyworks Chief Executive Phil Brace said during an earnings call. The companies announced t... (more story)
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Warner Bros. Discovery’s buyout presents more abstract, thorny competition questions than a commodity merger would. To be sure, the WBD sale raises standard-fare antitrust concerns about product output, price ... (more story)
Respondents to the latest market test sent by the Brazilian competition authority reiterated strong fears of price increases should Subsea7 and Saipem merge, while underscoring that Brazil’s deepwater conditio... (more story)
American Water Works’ acquisition of Essential Utilities will probably draw scrutiny from federal antitrust enforcers over monopsony concerns, though it is the state public utility regulators that will carry t... (more story)
Private-equity-backed healthcare firm Sevita and its publicly traded acquisition target, BrightSpring Health Services, ratified a merger antitrust consent decree Friday with the US Federal Trade Commission to ... (more story)
Netflix is hoping to persuade EU regulators that its Warner Bros Discovery bid raises no competition concerns due to rivalry from free-to-air broadcasters and the exploding popularity of YouTube. But by the ti... (more story)
A decision by a Washington, DC, federal judge that effectively killed Edwards Lifesciences’ proposed acquisition of JenaValve Technology sets an important precedent that harm can be found in markets before pro... (more story)
A €1.42 billion ($1.67 billion) plan by Finland’s UPM and South African rival Sappi to merge their graphic paper businesses looks set to be a key test of whether EU merger officials can consider the impact of ... (more story)
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)