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UK antitrust watchdog seeking to help 'roll back’ regulation, Cardell says
Businesses could see competition-related UK regulations rolled back in the name of economic growth, the national antitrust regulator has suggested, with its top enf... (more story)
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Shinsegae, Alibaba JV cleared with data-sharing restrictions in South Korea
South Korean retail giant Shinsegae and China’s Alibaba Group have won conditional approval from South Korea’s competition regulator for a joint venture that will o... (more story)
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Asiana faces fresh South Korean probe over possible breach of merger conditions
Asiana Airlines is facing renewed scrutiny from South Korea’s competition watchdog, which has carried out a dawn raid to examine whether the carrier violated merger... (more story)
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Fired Deputy Assistant Attorney General Bill Rinner complimented his former antitrust-enforcement colleagues in the Trump-Vance administration for their "surgical approach" to combating merger antitrust harms ... (more story)
Three key stakeholders in Brazil’s offshore oil and gas sector – Petrobras, ExxonMobil, TechnipFMC – and the Brazilian Association of Oil and Gas Exploration Companies have requested third-party status in a re... (more story)
The US Federal Trade Commission is restructuring how competition cases are handled at its regional offices with the aim of creating a more efficient and flexible reporting mechanism, said Daniel Guarnera, dire... (more story)
Requiring companies to divest a standalone business is the most effective way to reduce the risk of failed remedies in merger cases, a senior US Federal Trade Commission official said.
There are “real concerns” about political corruption in the Trump administration and the risk that poses to ongoing enforcement, according to a top New York antitrust enforcer, while the state attorney general... (more story)
Andrea Marván Saltiel, chair of Mexico’s Federal Economic Competition Commission, said the reduction in the number of commissioners from seven to five could lead to faster and more accurate decisions. Saltiel ... (more story)
The state of New York is willing to litigate antitrust cases and is ready to step in and bring big cases when the federal government fails to do so, said Chris D’Angelo, chief deputy attorney general for econo... (more story)
Mediobanca made a last-ditch attempt to thwart its hostile takeover by rival bank Monte dei Paschi di Siena by appealing the European Central Bank approval that enabled the deal, MLex has learned. The legal ch... (more story)
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The proposed acquisition of Grupo Wickbold’s baking business by Bimbo is expected to require remedies, MLex has learned, following concerns raised by Brazil’s antitrust authority over potential price increases... (more story)
State attorneys general and other observers are pushing for a thorough Tunney Act procedure, including fact discovery, as a US judge considers whether Hewlett Packard Enterprise's merger with Juniper Networks ... (more story)
A ruling on the US Federal Trade Commission's challenge against GTCR’s merger with Surmodics is poised to join a series of merger cases that are steadily defining judicial precedent on litigating the fix and s... (more story)
The use of powerful information-access laws by Australia’s antitrust regulator has increased over recent years. The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission says that this uptick in “section 155” notices i... (more story)
Private-equity firm TPG Global failed to shake claims that it orchestrated an anticompetitive scheme with Musixmatch — which it is alleged to control. A California federal judge’s order this week rejecting TPG... (more story)
Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Juniper Networks told Biden and Trump administration antitrust enforcers that their deal should be favored for its benefits to national security, and ultimately, the Trump admini... (more story)
Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern moved a step closer to sealing their $85 billion merger after President Trump dismissed Robert Primus, a Democratic member of the Surface Transportation Board who had opposed... (more story)
Media mergers in the EU are now exposed to a media plurality test that goes beyond competition law to assess influence on public opinion, editorial independence and financial sustainability. The European Commi... (more story)