Tag: Antitrust merger
Michigan Hospital Calls Off $6B Merger With Summa Health
Beaumont Health announced Friday, May 29, it has canceled a planned merger with Ohio-based Summa Health, but didn’t explain why.
Under the plan, Summa would...
German Property Groups LEG And TAG Terminate Merger Talks
German property groups LEG Immobilien and TAG Immobilien have terminated their merger discussions over a disagreement on valuation, reported Reuters.
“No agreement could be reached...
Texas Capital, Independent Bank Call Off $5.5B Merger
A US$5.5 billion deal that would have merged two North Texas financial institutions into a “super-regional bank” is being called off.
Dallas-based Texas Capital Bancshares...
Biglaw Firm Cuts Associate Salaries But Push On With Merger
Pepper Hamilton on Friday, May 8, stated it is cutting pay across the firm due to the coronavirus pandemic, but that it still plans...
Virgin Media And O2 Agree On $39B Merger
Liberty Global and Telefonica have agreed to combine their UK operations in a deal that will create a new giant in the country’s telecommunications...
DOJ Allows Mega Dairy Deal But With Divestments
Justice Department antitrust authorities cleared the way for Dairy Farmers of America (DFA) to buy the bulk of Dean Foods’s milk plants out of...
Telefonica Wants To merge UK’s O2 And Virgin Media
Spain’s Telefonica is in talks with billionaire John Malone’s Liberty Global to explore a merger of its British mobile operator O2 with Liberty’s Virgin...
Challenging Consummated Mergers Under Section 2
By Douglas H. Ginsburg (DC Circuit) & Koren Wong-Ervin (Antitrust Partner at Axinn, Veltrop, & Harkrider LLP)
In the last year, officials at the U.S....
CMX Cinema Uses Coronavirus To Stop Merger Suit
CMX Cinemas got a Houston federal judge to pause a lawsuit claiming it’s using the coronavirus “as a pretext for walking away from” a...
Senators Urge DOJ To Look At “Problematic” Textbook Merger
Six Democratic senators have urged the US Justice Department to take a hard look at what they called a “problematic” merger of the No....