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Proposed decisions on Charter-Cox deal submitted to California utility regulator July 09, 2026 | Curtis Eichelberger

California Public Utilities Commission Administrative Law Judge Jamie Ormond's proposed decision, and Commissioner Matthew Baker’s alternate proposed decision in the regulatory review of Charter Communications... (more story)

Brazil oil producers appeal CADE's approval of Subsea7-Saipem merger July 09, 2026 | Flavia Fortes

Brazil's Association of Oil and Gas Exploration and Production Companies, or ABEP, has appealed the unconditional clearance of the proposed merger between Saipem and Subsea7, arguing the competition authority'... (more story)

California judge sets July 2027 trial in Nexstar-Tegna merger challenge July 09, 2026 | Flavia Fortes

A federal judge in California has set a July 6, 2027, bench trial in a challenge by US states and DirecTV to Nexstar Media Group's proposed acquisition of Tegna Inc., while approving the parties' jointly propo... (more story)

Nexstar-Tegna challengers lose DC Circuit bid to force FCC on bureau order July 09, 2026 | Flavia Fortes

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit denied efforts by broadcasters and pay-TV providers to force the Federal Communications Commission to act on a pending administrative appeal involvi... (more story)

Paramount-Warner Bros. deal gets Brazil approval, but decision not final July 09, 2026 | Flavia Fortes

Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery have secured Brazilian antitrust clearance for their proposed $110 billion merger after the competition regulator's investigative arm concluded the deal is unlikel... (more story)

Euralis and Maïsadour face French merger decision by end of July July 09, 2026 | Jean Comte

French agricultural co-operatives Euralis and Maïsadour will know by the end of the month whether their intended merger will be cleared or sent for an in-depth probe, MLex has learned. The planned deal, announ... (more story)

Edeka hits back at criticism over Tegut grocery deal July 09, 2026 | Anna Ferrari

Supermarket giant Edeka has rejected criticism of its planned acquisition of Tegut stores in Germany, arguing that the deal would safeguard jobs and food supply. But associations including Oxfam say that growi... (more story)

Uber CEO exits Grab board as Taiwan begins Foodpanda deal review July 09, 2026 | Yonnex Li

Uber Technologies CEO Dara Khosrowshahi has stepped down from Grab Holdings' board, just as Taiwan's competition regulator begins reviewing the Southeast Asian company's proposed acquisition of Foodpanda's loc... (more story)

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Foxconn-Mitsubishi review exposed legal-certainty problem inside Brazil CADE July 08, 2026 | Maria Júlia Baumert

A ruling by the Brazilian competition authority's Tribunal on the Foxconn-Mitsubishi Fuso joint venture proposal did more than settle a jurisdictional dispute over how turnover thresholds should be applied to ... (more story)

NextEra, Dominion Energy likely to get US antitrust scrutiny in wholesale markets July 06, 2026 | Curtis Eichelberger

NextEra's proposed acquisition of Dominion Energy will likely receive antitrust scrutiny in the wholesale power markets administered by independent power grid operators PJM Interconnection and ISO New England.

Saipem-Subsea7 Brazil clearance set to be challenged over analysis inconsistencies July 06, 2026 | Flavia Fortes

Critics of the approval of Saipem's proposed acquisition of Subsea7 in Brazil argue the Administrative Council for Economic Defense's investigatory unit relied on internally inconsistent reasoning to justify t... (more story)

New EU merger guidelines' promised dynamism put to test by UPM-Sappi JV July 06, 2026 | Andrew Boyce and Nicholas Hirst

UPM and Sappi’s €1.4 billion paper manufacturing joint venture is testing the EU merger regulator’s thinking on "pivotality," fixed costs and out-of-market benefits — all concepts that are part of the regulato... (more story)

Paramount-Warner deal raises UK streaming, children's TV, news plurality concerns July 03, 2026 | Jon Menon

Paramount Skydance's acquisition of Warner Bros. could see the UK government seek to extend media plurality scrutiny to streaming services, as it raises concerns about children's television and international n... (more story)

Getty-Shutterstock deal axing sharpens political focus on UK merger enforcement July 01, 2026 | Jon Menon

The UK antitrust regulator could come under the political spotlight after Getty Images said it intended to abandon its acquisition of US rival Shutterstock. Getty cited a Competition and Markets Authority requ... (more story)

Slaughter ruling, Ferguson move narrow US FTC, DOJ merger differences June 30, 2026 | Flavia Fortes

The US Supreme Court's decision in Trump v. Slaughter is likely to be remembered for transforming the Federal Trade Commission's independence. But it also underscores a quieter shift in US merger enforcement: ... (more story)

US regulator of foreign investment eyes agentic AI, data centers June 30, 2026 | Curtis Eichelberger

Agentic AI programs that can plan, reason, and act out a series of tasks to achieve more complex goals, and the data centers that provide the massive computing power required to train and run the complex model... (more story)