BNP Paribas Cardif has secured Indian antitrust approval to acquire about 26 percent of IndiaFirst Life, marking its return as a strategic investor in the country's insurance market, four years after exiting S... (more story)

Prudential Corporation has won Indian antitrust approval to acquire 75 percent of Bharti Life, giving the UK insurer control while requiring it to reduce its stake in ICICI Prudential Life to below 10 percent ... (more story)

OceanPact and CBO have urged the Brazilian competition authority to dismiss Petrobras' appeal against the approval of their proposed merger. According to the merging parties, Petrobras has not identified any e... (more story)

FedEx and private-equity firms Advent and A&R Investments' €7.8 billion takeover of InPost has been cleared by EU competition regulators without conditions. The European Commission said the deal wouldn't signi... (more story)

Australia’s antitrust regulator may take enforcement action against businesses that fail to notify acquisitions even when the deals raise no competition concerns, under proposed changes to the automatic voidin... (more story)

Taiwan’s Fair Trade Commission said it hasn’t reached a decision on Grab’s proposed acquisition of Foodpanda’s Taiwan business. The clarification comes after a local media report discussed conditional approval... (more story)

The California Law Revision Commission directed staff to draft a tentative recommendation for its Oct. 30 meeting that would clarify the proposed merger law using a "reasonable probability" standard, rather th... (more story)

Paramount asked a federal judge to require the 12 state attorneys general and the Writers Guild of America to post a $1.88 billion bond by Sept. 30 in connection with their pending litigation to block Paramoun... (more story)