Tag: Antitrust deal
US: Visa, Mastercard reach US$6.2bn settlement over card-swipe fees
On Tuesday, September 18, Visa, Mastercard, and a number of US banks agreed to pay US$6.2 billion to settle a long-running antitrust suit brought...
EU: Oct. 19 is the new deadline for Disney-Fox ruling
EU antitrust regulators have set an October 19 deadline for their ruling on Walt Disney’s US$71.3 billion bid for Twenty-First Century Fox entertainment assets,...
EU: Commission set to declare Engie’s Luxembourg tax deal illegal?
EU antitrust regulators will rule against French utility Engie’s tax deals with Luxembourg in the coming weeks, Reuters reported citing people familiar with the...
UK: MPs to question Sainsbury’s and Asda CEOs
Asda and Sainsbury's chief executives will be brought before MPs on June 20 to answer questions on how the proposed landmark merger between the...
India: Flipkart will still be board-run after Walmart deal
While Walmart has taken a majority stake in Flipkart, the company’s operating structure will remain the same: Flipkart Co-founder and Group CEO Binny Bansal...
US: Media giants dislike DoJ’s antitrust remedy for AT&T-Time Warner deal
Media giants Walt Disney, Fox and CBS pushed to intervene in the US Department of Justice's challenge to AT&T’s $85 billion merger with Time...
EU: Commission seeks to close Gazprom case on May 24
The European Commission plans to close the controversial antitrust case against Gazprom on May 24.
The Russian energy giant is expected to escape without a...
China: Microchip gets antitrust approval to buy Microsemi
On Tuesday, May 15, Microchip Technology Increceived antitrust clearance from China to buy rival Microsemi reported Reuters. This is the first approval of a...
US: Gov asks judge to force AT&T to sell Turner or...
Seven weeks after the trial over the suit the Justice Department (DOJ) brought to stop AT&T's purchase of Time Warner began, the two sides...
EU: Vodafone to buy Liberty Europe assets for $23B
Britain's Vodafone Group is close to announcing a $23 billion cash deal to buy operations in four European countries from John Malone's Liberty Global,...
