Tag: Antitrust deal
Illumina Offers Concessions To EU Over $8B Grail Deal
Illumina has offered to cut prices and continue to allow rivals access to its technologies in a bid to allay EU antitrust concerns about...
EU Conditionally Clears Facebook Kustomer Deal
Facebook secured EU antitrust approval for its acquisition of US customer service startup Kustomer after agreeing to provide rivals free access to its messaging...
Brazilian Antitrust Watchdog CADE Recommend Approval Of Carrefour Deal
Brazilian antitrust watchdog CADE has initially recommended approval of Carrefour's acquisition of Grupo BIG Brasil, but conditioned the deal to the divestment of some...
FTC Looks To Block Lockheed Martin’s $4.4B Aerojet Deal
The US FTC has voted unanimously to sue to block arms maker Lockheed Martin's proposed $4.4 billion purchase of rocket engine maker Aerojet Rocketdyne...
Vodafone & Iliad In Talks To Combine Italian Units
Vodafone and Iliad are apparently discussing a deal that would combine their respective Italian businesses in a bid to end cut-throat competition in the...
Gaming Deal Is A Chance To Spell Out US Antitrust Policy
By Financial Times, Editorial Board
In the year since Joe Biden became US president, his competition enforcers have talked a lot about getting tough on Big...
UK Regulator Probes NortonLifeLock $8.6B Cyber Security Deal
Britain’s competition regulator has launched an investigation into whether a takeover by cybersecurity firm NortonLifeLock of London-listed rival Avast will reduce choice for customers...
Tesla Investors Want Musk Repay $13B For SolarCity Deal
Tesla shareholders urged a judge on Tuesday, January 18, to find Elon Musk coerced the company's board into a 2016 deal for SolarCity and...
Facebook & Google Accused Of ‘Secret Deal’ Causing Unfair Competition Edge
Chief executives of Google and Facebook personally oversaw a 2018 deal that advantaged Facebook on Google's ad auctions, a group of state attorneys general...
Pipeline Operator Enterprise To Buy Navitas For $3.25B
Pipeline operator Enterprise Products Partners announced that it would buy Warburg Pincus-owned Navitas Midstream for US$3.25 billion in cash, entering the active Midland basin...
