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Notes from the Multipolar Global Front: Navigating Multinational Antitrust Merger Reviews

WilmerHale on 7/8/2025

Recent developments have made navigating multinational antitrust merger reviews even more complex and replete with traps for the unwary. ...more

Data with destiny: European AI M&A heats up as the race for dominance intensifies

White & Case LLP on 5/29/2025

With industries embracing this evolving technology, Europe is determined not to be left behind, and dealmakers are paying close attention - Europe’s artificial intelligence industry is gaining traction but has struggled to...more

Antitrust M&A Snapshot | Q1 2025

McDermott Will & Schulte on 5/6/2025

JANUARY – MARCH 2025: KEY THEMES AND TAKEAWAYS - UNITED STATES - FTC Loses Vertical Challenge to Tempur Sealy/Mattress Firm On July 2, 2024, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filed suit in federal court seeking to block...more

Antitrust in focus - March 2025

A&O Shearman on 3/31/2025

Our global antitrust enforcement report reveals significant increase in overall fines - In the latest edition of our annual report, we identify the major trends and developments in antitrust enforcement worldwide in 2024 and...more

Diversifying to boost financial resilience

IR Global on 3/26/2025

Q1: How can proactive risk management strategies help businesses navigate regulatory and economic uncertainties? The last few years have offered some, often difficult, lessons to many businesses who found themselves...more

UK Competition Authority Launches Consultation on Merger Remedies: A Shift Toward Flexibility and Growth?

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 3/20/2025

On March 12, 2025, the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) launched a consultation on its approach to merger remedies, asking whether the authority should permit more complex remedies in Phase I investigations and...more

Antitrust and Competition Life Sciences Year in Review 2024

Goodwin on 2/21/2025

The last year (and particularly the last few months) of the Biden Administration brought a flurry of activity from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in the life sciences space, continuing a yearslong pattern of close...more

Foreign Investment and National Security: Navigating Heightened Scrutiny of US, EU and UK Cross-Border Deals

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP on 10/16/2024

As geopolitical tensions ratchet higher across the globe – fueled by the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, turbulent relations between China, the United States (US), and Europe, escalating conflict in the Middle East, and...more

Europe’s banks restructure, consolidate and partner their way into the digital future

White & Case LLP on 10/4/2024

UK & European Financial Services M&A: Sector Trends H2 2023 | H1 2024 - 3 key drivers of bank M&A: - Arrival of long-awaited mammoth consolidation deals: Italy’s UniCredit and Spain’s BBVA sound the charge. - “Challenger”...more

Tepid UK & European private capital markets spur unicorns into inorganic opportunities

White & Case LLP on 10/4/2024

3 reasons for continuously high fintech M&A activity levels: Banks target indirect digital access: Through credit lines, investments in venture capital funds, collaborations with innovators and establishment of next...more

European Antitrust Bimonthly Bulletin – July/August 2024

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati on 9/6/2024

The "European Antitrust Bimonthly Bulletin” breaks down the major antitrust developments in Europe during the past two months into concise and actionable takeaways. ...more

Antitrust M&A Snapshot - Q2 2024

McDermott Will & Schulte on 7/29/2024

UNITED STATES - - Agencies Revisiting Consummated Mergers - What’s old is new again, as agencies are increasingly scrutinizing consummated mergers from years past. In May 2024, the US Department of Justice (DOJ), Antitrust...more

Antitrust in focus - April 2024

A&O Shearman on 7/1/2024

Spotlight on below-threshold merger reviews: doubts over European Commission’s powers while in depth probes launched in Italy - Last month, we reported on the landmark Advocate General (AG) opinion in Illumina/GRAIL. The AG...more

Battery storage M&A powers into 2024

White & Case LLP on 5/21/2024

Battery energy storage systems (BESS), which enable utility companies and grid operators to access pools of surplus renewable energy on demand that would otherwise be wasted, play a central role in the global energy...more

Cross-Border M&A Opportunities Favor the Prepared

DarrowEverett LLP on 4/18/2024

Cross-border mergers and acquisitions (“M&A”) unlock growth, diversification, and a stronger global stance for businesses. These strategic moves enable firms from different nations to blend resources, making way into new...more

Antitrust in focus - February 2024

A&O Shearman on 3/8/2024

This newsletter is a summary of the antitrust developments we think are most interesting to your business. Dirk Arts, co-head of the global antitrust group and partner based in Brussels, is our editor this month. He has...more

Three New UK Laws Impacting Autonomous Vehicles, Digital Markets and Personal Data

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 12/1/2023

On 7 November 2023, in the King’s Speech, the UK government announced three draft laws aimed at supporting tech companies’ growth and competitiveness: the Automated Vehicles Bill (AV Bill), the Digital Markets, Competition...more

Antitrust in focus - October 2023

A&O Shearman on 10/30/2023

The Foreign Subsidies Regulation (FSR) establishes a new regime, enforced by the European Commission (EC), to regulate subsidies granted by non-EU countries to businesses active in the EU that could distort competition in EU...more

At Mid-Year 2023, WAMS Data Show Global Decrease in Merger Filing Notifications, with Significant Declines in U.S. and EU Merger...

White & Case LLP on 9/28/2023

White & Case Global Antitrust Merger StatPak (WAMS)—the first real-time clearinghouse for global merger notification data—has analyzed merger notifications in reporting jurisdictions around the first half of calendar year...more

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