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Mergers and Acquisitions

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DOJ under Biden set records for civil antitrust enforcement, lagged in criminal cases January 17, 2025 | Chris May, Khushita Vasant, Curtis Eichelberger and Clayton Vickers

The US Department of Justice’s antitrust division had more total active civil investigations open in fiscal year 2024 than in any year for nearly a decade, workload statistics released today show.

SLB-ChampionX deal got CFIUS clearance; still on track to close Q1 January 17, 2025 | Flavia Fortes

SLB’s $7.8 billion acquisition of ChampionX received clearance from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States in December, the chief executive officer of SLB, formerly known as Schlumberger, sai... (more story)

Swiss IT distributor Also seeks EU approval to buy Westcoast assets January 17, 2025 | Andrew Boyce

Swiss IT distributor Also has filed for EU approval to buy rival Westcoast’s operations in the UK, Ireland and France. The European Commission has set an initial Feb. 18 deadline to decide on the deal.

Singtel, KKR secure Indian approval for $1.3 billion STT GDC investment with 'safeguards' January 17, 2025 | Freny Patel

Singapore Telecommunications and global investment firm KKR secured conditional approval from the Indian antitrust watchdog for their joint $1.3 billion investment in STT Global Data Centers. The approval come... (more story)

Goldman Sachs fined for gun-jumping in Biocon investment by Indian watchdog January 16, 2025 | Freny Patel

Goldman Sachs was penalized for "gun-jumping" after having failed to notify the Indian antitrust watchdog of its investment in Biocon Biologics. The Competition Commission of India imposed a fine of 4 million ... (more story)

Foreign direct investments likely face increased global scrutiny, lawyers say January 16, 2025 | Curtis Eichelberger

Lawyers working on regulatory reviews of foreign direct investment regimes expect government leaders across the globe to become more active in scrutinizing foreign investors, to broaden the definition of what ... (more story)

Google-owner Alphabet reports Evaluable AI takeover to EU regulators January 16, 2025 | Andrew Boyce

Google-owner Alphabet has informed EU regulators of its takeover of Evaluable AI, a US startup that helps companies analyze machine learning models. It disclosed the deal to the European Commission under its o... (more story)

Viavi considers bidding for Spirent assets to be sold for Keysight merger approval January 16, 2025 | Jon Menon

Viavi Solutions is considering making an offer for the Spirent Communications’ high-speed ethernet and network security assets that are being auctioned as part of Keysight Technologies’ efforts to get antitrus... (more story)

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SES-Intelsat market test shows Brazilian satellite market is broadly competitive January 17, 2025 | Flavia Fortes

The market for supply of satellite capacity is competitive and has several players, according to most respondents in the market test the Brazilian competition authority is performing for its review of SES's me... (more story)

Welsh Carson settlement ‘blueprint’ caps Biden FTC's crackdown on roll-ups January 17, 2025 | Chris May and Ilana Kowarski

A settlement between private equity firm Welsh Carson and the US Federal Trade Commission over allegedly illegal serial acquisitions in the Texas anesthesiology market offers “a valuable blueprint for future C... (more story)

US merger guidelines gain traction in court January 16, 2025 | Ilana Kowarski

Controversial new US merger enforcement guidelines have picked up support from judges who have incorporated them into key decisions.

Synopsys-Ansys deal faces uphill battle in six-month push for China greenlight January 16, 2025 | MLex Staff

Securing Beijing's approval for its $35 billion takeover of Ansys by June 30 would be a tall order for Synopsys. Potentially complicating matters for the US chip design software specialist, some Chinese indust... (more story)

US judge in HSR lawsuit has been skeptical of regulatory authority January 14, 2025 | Ilana Kowarski

The federal judge overseeing the legal challenge to the Federal Trade Commission’s expanded premerger forms has issued multiple decisions against government agencies similarly accused of overreach.

Suit over KKR premerger filings affirms US DOJ focus on private equity roll-ups January 14, 2025 | Flavia Fortes

The US Department of Justice today sued private equity firm KKR and more than a dozen of its investment advisors and funds for failing to make complete and accurate premerger filings in at least 16 separate tr... (more story)

Beyond Washington, 2025 looms as huge year in US data privacy January 09, 2025 | Mike Swift, Xu Yuan and Madeline Hughes

When the first important privacy ruling of 2025 by a US federal judge landed this week — Google’s summary judgment loss in litigation alleging it illegally tracked users’ mobile web activities and app usage — ... (more story)

Canada competition agency uses rebuttal structural presumption for first time January 09, 2025 | Flavia Fortes

Canada's Competition Bureau relied for the first time on a structural presumption provided in the new Competition Act to find RONA’s acquisition of All-Fab would be anticompetitive and needed to be remedied. T... (more story)