David MacNeil has withdrawn his nomination to be a Republican commissioner on the US Federal Trade Commission, and the Trump administration is set to nominate Chris Mufarrige fo...(read more)
Australian Treasury documents obtained by MLex reveal a gap in Australia’s mandatory merger rules, addressed by September amendments, that could have allowed investors to increa...(read more)
Officials from the European Commission, the UK Competition and Markets Authority — and also representatives of Saipem and Subsea7 — have held separate meetings with the office o...(read more)
Tate & Lyle’s chief executive officer said that its acquisition by Ingredion has gained written or verbal regulatory clearances in the UK, Brazil, China, South Korea, Tanzania and Zanzibar and has six hurdles remaining. Ca...(read more)
The US Surface Transportation Board denied Union Pacific Railroad’s move to keep secret a keynote speech by Chief Executive Officer Jim Vena, in which he allegedly threatened to hike rates for shippers opposed to his acqui...(read more)
David MacNeil has withdrawn his nomination to be a Republican commissioner on the US Federal Trade Commission, and the Trump administration is set to nominate Chris Mufarrige for the same spot, a White House source told ML...(read more)
State attorneys general who filed lawsuits to stop the blockbuster Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery and Nexstar-Tegna mergers won re-election in big numbers Tuesday. Though it's unlikely that their wins turned on their mer...(read more)
The Brazilian government is seeking a meeting with EU officials to discuss their objections to plans by Chinese-owned MMG to buy a Brazilian nickel mine that supplies EU stainless steel-makers.
Saipem’s proposed combination with Subsea7 has been approved by Brazil’s competition authority subject to structural and behavioral remedies, following a Tribunal review prompted by challenges to the agency’s initial uncon...(read more)
DoorDash’s bid to buy Instacart will leave it with a “very, very large percentage” of the US online delivery market and has already prompted concerns from merchants, the chief executive of Uber has said. DoorDash announced...(read more)
Sky’s planned acquisition of ITV’s media and entertainment unit will be scrutinized on public interest grounds, the culture minister Lisa Nandy said as she cited concerns over media plurality. The Competition and Markets A...(read more)
The EU go-ahead for JD.com's acquisition of Ceconomy shows that Chinese companies can gain EU subsidy approval for their European deals. But the ecommerce platform, which is listed internationally, had to give broad conces...(read more)
LetterOne is set to ask the UK Supreme Court whether it is entitled to compensation after being forced to sell broadband provider Upp on national security grounds. The landmark appeal at the UK's top court by the investmen...(read more)
DoorDash’s proposed $17 billion acquisition of Instacart is likely to draw an in-depth investigation from US federal and state antitrust regulators as the merger carries the potential to eliminate a growing competitor and ...(read more)
State attorneys general say they prefer federal antitrust agencies take the lead in resolving illegal corporate mergers, but promise to take matters into their own hands when the federal government shirks its obligation. T...(read more)
Can Sino-Australian miner MMG persuade the EU merger regulator that it will keep a promise to supply ferronickel to European steelmakers once it has bought a key mine in Brazil? That will likely depend on how watertight it...(read more)
Europe’s system for reviewing M&A activity is built on “mutual trust,” and “any circumstance” to undermine it endangers the entire architecture, the EU enforcer has said. By turning up the heat on KKR and Kingspan over “mi...(read more)
The "Project Bromo" space-exploration joint venture by Airbus, Thales and Leonardo, intended to rival SpaceX, has the political winds behind it and can hope for approval after a phase I review, subject to a major remedy pa...(read more)
A French antitrust fine this week for creating a medical waste treatment monopoly in the overseas territory of La Reunion is unlikely to be appealed: It was a symbolic €1 on each party involved as it was a first. But the F...(read more)
Santa Clara, California-bases Marvell Technology has agreed to acquire San Jose, California-based Lumentum in an all-stock transaction with an implied enterprise value of $115 billion. The companies said the merger brings ...(read more)
Delivery company DoorDash intends to acquire rival Instacart for roughly $17 billion.To add details to this portfolio regarding legal or economic representatives, please contact editors@mlex.com
MiMedx Group has agreed to acquire Sanara MedTech in a cash and stock transaction with a total enterprise value of about $350 million. Both companies are traded on the Nasdaq.To add details to this portfolio regarding lega...(read more)
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