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US FTC's Meador calls out 'weird gamesmanship' by antitrust lawyers
Gamesmanship by certain law firms involved in antitrust or merger cases continues to impede competition enforcers, and such misbehavior ought to be publicly challen... (more story)
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SM Energy-Civitas deal gets early clearance in US
SM Energy Co. and Civitas Resources have received antitrust clearance for their $12.8 billion deal, according to the US Federal Trade Commission.
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Novartis-Avidity Biosciences deal gets early clearance in US
Novartis and Avidity Biosciences have received antitrust clearance for their $12 billion deal from the US competition authorities. On Dec. 17, the agencies granted ... (more story)
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The judge overseeing the Tunney Act review of the US government’s merger settlement with Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Juniper Networks said intervening states can pursue discovery, but it must be targeted to... (more story)
Rivals and customers of Saipem and Subsea7 have received new queries from the Brazilian competition authority about the oilfield service firms’ deal. The agency asked companies to provide technical, operationa... (more story)
US cybersecurity company Palo Alto Networks’ planned $25 billion acquisition of Israeli identity‑security specialist CyberArk Software has received clearance from the Austrian competition authority. Palo Alto ... (more story)
L’Oréal’s “long-term strategic partnership” with luxury giant Kering has been notified to Austria’s competition authority for approval. The regulator has until Jan. 18 to issue an initial verdict on the deal.
China’s top merger-control regulator has fined two Zhejiang companies a combined 1.7 million yuan ($240,000) for gun-jumping, its fourth publicly disclosed unlawful merger case this year. For the first time si... (more story)
Prosus was given six months less than it had before to reduce its 27 percent holding in Delivery Hero, as part of discussions with the European Commission over acquiring Just Eat Takeaway.com. The tech investo... (more story)
Skyworks and Qorvo intend to pull and refile Hart-Scott-Rodino Act premerger notification filings in early January, according to a securities filing. The companies filed their notification forms with the US Fe... (more story)
Commercial refrigeration system maker Epta has requested European Commission authorization for its intended acquisition of Hauser, which supplies commercial refrigeration and related equipment for food retail.... (more story)
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The curtain was pulled back on the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States in 2025, bringing an end to any illusions about the national security review being above the political fray.
Brazil’s antitrust authority closed out 2025 without blocking a single transaction, focusing its merger control enforcement actions mostly on domestic deals. While the absence of prohibitions underscored a gen... (more story)
Gamesmanship by certain law firms involved in antitrust or merger cases continues to impede competition enforcers, and such misbehavior ought to be publicly challenged, according to Mark Meador, the most recen... (more story)
US merger enforcement in 2025 is showing clear signs of a return to long-standing legal and economic principles after a period of change in enforcement policy — but that reset remains fragile. As antitrust age... (more story)
Japan’s antitrust watchdog is set to recalibrate its enforcement in 2026, stepping up protection for smaller businesses and policing Big Tech under a new smartphone law, as debates emerge over how competition ... (more story)
US Federal Trade Commission merger trial litigators received two unfavorable district court rulings in 2025 that antitrust law enforcement targets could leverage in future cases when disputing government marke... (more story)
Corporate executives under pressure to present Wall Street with rosy pictures of future business prospects should take heed of the cautionary tales offered by a trio of recent US antitrust lawsuits where defen... (more story)
For Republican US Federal Trade Commissioner Mark Meador, one persistent source of frustration is when merger trial judges discount or ignore the negative implications of clearing anticompetitive transactions,... (more story)