Work Area: Merger Control

Adobe is ready to progress remedy discussions with the European Commission after the agency warned its acquisition of Figma risks harming competition unless a fix is offered.

20 November 2023

The Australian government is consulting on whether to implement a mandatory, suspensory merger regime that would force the national competition authority to go before local courts to block or remedy deals.

20 November 2023

The Federal Trade Commission has sued to block John Muir Health’s $142.5 million acquisition of a rival hospital in the San Francisco Bay area.

20 November 2023

Norwegian Air believes it will secure approval for its acquisition of rival airline Widerøe despite the country's competition authority rejecting a remedy package and issuing a statement of objections against the tie-up.

17 November 2023

Viva Energy has offered to divest an additional two fuel and convenience locations to Chevron to address concerns that its €687.1 million acquisition of OTR Group harms competition for the supply of retail fuel in South Australia.

16 November 2023

Microsoft’s multibillion-dollar investment in OpenAI does not constitute a notifiable merger even though it gave the tech giant “material competitive influence” over the creator of ChatGPT, Germany’s Federal Cartel Office has said.

15 November 2023

Korea’s Fair Trade Commission has proposed updating its merger guidelines to clarify how it will assess deals in the digital economy.

14 November 2023

The Dutch subsidiary of Shanghai-listed Wingtech Technologies has sold its majority stake in the UK’s largest semiconductor manufacturer to a US company despite an ongoing challenge against the national security divestiture order.

10 November 2023

The Federal Trade Commission should have put forth a different narrative in its unsuccessful bid for a preliminary injunction against Microsoft/Activision Blizzard, a recently departed official has said.

09 November 2023

Nordea's proposed acquisition of Danske Bank’s personal and private banking businesses requires closer scrutiny because it risks harming competition for mortgage services, the Norwegian Competition Authority has said.

08 November 2023