Mergers and Acquisitions

A Sept. 24 hearing over a proposed $1.88 billion bond in the challenge to Paramount Skydance’s acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery will give a federal judge an early opportunity to confront the US Department... (more story)

American Water, Essential Utilities and other parties in the companies’ merger regulatory review filed a joint petition for non-unanimous settlement in Pennsylvania. The proposal includes about $82 million for... (more story)

EU merger investigators this week lodged their formal objections to miner MMG's plan to buy a nickel business from Anglo American — and in so doing they appear for the first time to have trained their sights d... (more story)

Japan’s blocking of Asian private-equity firm MBK Partners’ acquisition of machine-tool maker Makino Milling Machine in April — its first such intervention in nearly two decades — contrasts sharply with the co... (more story)

The Justice Department’s reported investigation of Nvidia’s separate Groq arrangement does not directly call into question its proposed acquisition of Hugging Face, but it could complicate the agency’s review ... (more story)

Ursula von der Leyen's honeyed words for a joint venture between Airbus, Leonardo and Thales on Thursday was an exceptional intervention that will trigger concerns over respect for the European Commission's no... (more story)

Dominant companies will cast a worrisome eye over their M&A plans following an EU court ruling on Wednesday that could curb any expansion that calcifies an already uncompetitive market. Booking’s failure to ov... (more story)

A recent decision by the European Commission to pause its ongoing review of the intended Saipem7 deal is putting an end to any expectation that the deal could close by the end of the year — the official date f... (more story)