Officials from the European Commission, the UK Competition and Markets Authority — and also representatives of Saipem and Subsea7 — have held separate meetings with... (more story)
The US Federal Trade Commission’s challenge to a merger between two rival outdoor commercial playground builders — PlayPower and BCI Burke — includes several novel ... (more story)
Australia’s competition watchdog has defended the broad reach of the new mandatory merger regime ahead of Treasury’s review of notification thresholds, saying it is... (more story)
The six significant European merger investigations completed so far in 2026 are an exceedingly low volume, according to a Dechert law firm quarterly report, and put the EU on pace for the lowest annual total m... (more story)
Brazil’s competition authority cleared, without restrictions, White Martins’ acquisition of all shares in Locmed Hospitalar and LCM Comércio e Serviços Hospitalates, finding that sufficient competition will re... (more story)
Boston Scientific has asked the EU merger regulator to approve its $14.5 billion acquisition of rival US biomedical company Penumbra. The European Commission has set a deadline of Dec. 4 to either approve the ... (more story)
GE Vernova's intended acquisition of Trench Group will need EU and US antitrust approval, the company said in a statement. The deal, which is due to close in late 2027, will grant the US energy equipment compa... (more story)
Indian pharmaceutical company Sun Pharma has asked the EU merger regulator for clearance of its intended acquisition of Organon, a US-based rival company. The European Commission has set a Dec. 3 deadline to d... (more story)
Mexico's National Antitrust Commission plans to review its merger guidelines and issue guidance on the certification of corporate compliance programs by early next year, commission President Andrea Marván Salt... (more story)
Freight transportation broker C.H. Robinson Worldwide doesn’t have many clients in common with its acquisition target the supply chain logistics firm RXO, C.H. Robinson chief executive Dave Bozeman said during... (more story)
Boston Scientific Chief Executive Officer Mike Mahoney said the company expects to close the acquisition of Penumbra in the first quarter of 2027. “The regulatory process has taken a bit of time,” Mahoney said... (more story)
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 ... (more story)
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 ... (more story)
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 King... (more story)
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 ma... (more story)
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 fir... (more story)
Casino operators Fertitta Entertainment and Caesars Entertainment can be expected to tell regulators examining their proposed merger that geographic antitrust markets should be defined broadly due to an increa... (more story)
The lead councilor reviewing Saipem’s proposed acquisition of Subsea7 at Brazil’s competition authority has met internally with the agency’s prosecutors and economists to discuss the transaction. Officials als... (more story)
The US Federal Trade Commission’s challenge to a merger between two rival outdoor commercial playground builders — PlayPower and BCI Burke — includes several novel antitrust theories of harm from the 2023 nati... (more story)
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 r... (more story)
Ares Capital Corporation will acquire MidCap Financial Investment Corporation in a stock-and-cash transaction with a total enterprise value of approximately $2.6 billion. The deal is expected to close in the f... (more story)
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