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Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Considérations clés relativement aux « propositions supérieures » au Canada

Quelque chose de relativement rare s’est produit au premier trimestre de 2025 dans le domaine des fusions et acquisitions (« F&A ») de sociétés ouvertes au Canada : Une proposition prétendument « supérieure » à celle visée...more

White & Case LLP

UAE announces new thresholds for merger filings

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March 31, 2025 marks the first day of implementing the UAE's mandatory and suspensory new Competition Law regime, which entered into force in 2023 and was supplemented by a Ministerial Decree earlier this year. As of today,...more

Vinson & Elkins LLP

10 Key Takeaways on Addressing Antitrust Risk in M&A Transactions

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On February 10, Vinson & Elkins LLP’s Hill Wellford, co-chair of the firm’s antitrust group, and Kara Kuritz, an antitrust transactional partner, presented a PLI briefing “Antitrust in Transactions.” During their talk about...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Antitrust M&A Snapshot - Q3 2023

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UNITED STATES - Proposed Merger Guidelines Outline Fundamental Change of Approach to Merger Investigation and Enforcement - On July 19, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the US Department of Justice (DOJ)...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

D(MA)-Day: Formal Adoption of the EU Digital Markets Act

On July 18, 2022, the long-awaited Digital Markets Act (DMA) received the final approval of the EU's co-legislators. The DMA will impose stringent far-reaching obligations on the largest digital platforms: the "gatekeepers."...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

FTC Makes Major Changes to Expand Prior Approval in Merger Consents, Creating Greater Risk for Merging Parties Subject to FTC...

On Monday, October 25, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC or “Commission”) issued a policy statement announcing that the Commission will require all parties that enter into a merger consent agreement to agree that the parties...more

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Are Antitrust Risk Allocation Provisions in Merger Agreements Worthless?

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Megamergers that deprive the American consumer of competition are illegal. But the urge to merge is often so strong that antitrust risks rarely prevent behemoths from the attempt. Long before parties sign deals, issue press...more

Perkins Coie

“Reasonableness” Is in the Eye of the Beholder: Vague Contracts Clauses Invite Litigation

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Schick, the shaving product company, recently announced it was abandoning its proposed $1.4 billion acquisition of rival startup Harry’s Razors. The announcement followed the U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) threat to...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Federal Appellate Court Upholds AT&T’s Acquisition of Time Warner

February 27, 2019 On February 26, 2019, a panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit unanimously affirmed the district court’s denial of a Department of Justice (DOJ) bid to permanently...more

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Federal Court Enjoins North Dakota Physician Practice Merger

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On December 15, 2017, United States Magistrate Judge Alice Senechal of the District of North Dakota entered an order preliminarily enjoining the merger between two large physicians practices in the Bismarck/Mandan market,...more

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