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Australian antitrust official downplays impact of legal costs for mergers

By Saloni Sinha ( August 27, 2025, 07:21 GMT | Insight) -- It’s difficult to offer a perspective on the impact of legal costs under Australia’s mandatory merger rules, but the bigger picture of the new regime is a more efficient process and regulator, a competition official has said. In a webinar today, an official with the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission, Daniel McCracken-Hewson, said he couldn’t offer an “abstract” perspective on the impact of changing legal costs that the parties would incur under the new merger regime that will come into full effect from Jan. 1, 2026. It’s difficult to offer a perspective on the impact of legal costs under Australia’s mandatory merger rules, but the bigger picture of the new regime is a more efficient process and regulator, a competition official has said....

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