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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. ASSA ABLOY AB et al

  1. June 30, 2025

    Judge Urges DOJ, Assa Abloy To Reach Deal On Extension

    A D.C. federal court urged the U.S. Department of Justice and Assa Abloy on Monday to reach an agreement over a request from Fortune Brands Home & Security to extend a supply agreement that was part of a 2023 merger settlement.

  2. June 27, 2025

    Judge Waits On Fortune's Bid To Join Assa Abloy Fight

    A D.C. federal judge left open the question of whether Fortune Brands Home & Security can intervene to enforce Assa Abloy's 2023 settlement agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice on Friday, as the DOJ seeks to keep a supply agreement between the two companies in place.

  3. June 18, 2025

    Judge Skeptical That Assa Abloy Needn't Extend Supply Deal

    A D.C. federal judge suggested Tuesday that Assa Abloy faces an uphill fight resisting efforts by its divestiture buyer to extend a supply agreement inked as part of an asset sale deal resolving a U.S. Department of Justice merger lawsuit.

  4. July 26, 2024

    Assa Abloy Resolves DOJ Merger Monitor Dispute

    Assa Abloy told a D.C. federal judge that it's agreed "in principle" on how a monitoring trustee will review its compliance with a U.S. Department of Justice merger lawsuit settlement, resolving a simmering dispute over its complaints of an open-ended multimillion-dollar investigation.

  5. July 09, 2024

    Judge Calls Cost Of DOJ's Assa Abloy Market Study 'Insane'

    A D.C. federal judge took the U.S. Department of Justice and its monitoring trustee to task Tuesday for their pursuit of an open-ended look at Assa Abloy's books to check for anticompetitive harms from a 2023 merger, excoriating budget estimates pricing the investigation at a minimum of $1.7 million.

  6. July 08, 2024

    Assa Abloy Says No Monitor 'Blank Check' After Merger Deal

    Assa Abloy on Monday reasserted its bid to rein in a monitoring trustee installed after the company settled a government merger challenge, arguing ahead of a court hearing that the government is aiming to roll back the parties' deal and carry out a more expansive investigation through the monitor.

  7. July 03, 2024

    Assa Abloy Trying To Rewrite Merger Deal, Gov't Claims

    The U.S. Department of Justice fired back at Assa Abloy's bid to rein in a monitoring trustee installed after the company settled a government merger challenge, saying the company is trying to "walk away from its promises to the court" after completing its acquisition of Spectrum Brands' hardware and home improvement business.

  8. June 20, 2024

    Assa Abloy Says Deal Monitor Going Too Far

    Assa Abloy has told a D.C. federal court that a monitoring trustee installed after the company settled a government merger challenge is taking things too far by trying to conduct a five-year, industry-wide study that's on pace to cost the company $20 million.

  9. May 09, 2023

    Does DOJ's Assa Abloy Deal Encourage More Fix-It First?

    The U.S. Department of Justice has avoided a possible courtroom defeat by accepting a consent decree clearing Assa Abloy's proposed $4.3 billion pickup of Spectrum Brands' hardware and home improvement business, but the settlement could weaken the agency's hard-line stance against merger clearance deals.

  10. May 05, 2023

    DOJ Settles Assa Abloy Merger In Middle Of Trial

    The U.S. Department of Justice cut a deal Friday ending its challenge to Assa Abloy's $4.3 billion pickup of Spectrum Brands' hardware and home improvement business, abruptly curtailing a D.C. federal court bench trial with the first merger settlement since the DOJ largely shunned consent decrees.