Tag: Antitrust merger
Discovery To Combine Discovery+ With HBO Max Post WarnerMedia Merger
Discovery Chief Financial Officer Gunnar Wiedenfels on Monday gave the most concrete details yet about the media company’s plans to combine its Discovery+ streaming...
Democrats Speak Against Budget Airline Merger
Several congressional Democrats are warning that the proposed combination of Frontier Airlines and Spirit Airlines would reduce competition among low-cost carriers and drive up fares during...
Anthem Will Rebrand As Elevance Health Post Merger
Anthem said on Thursday it intends to change its name to Elevance Health as the company looks to shift its focus beyond the health...
FTC & DOJ To Overhaul Merger Guidelines
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Department of Justice (DOJ) are working together to transform their merger guidelines, with the new rules likely to...
DOJ Focuses On Labor Antitrust In Raytheon’s Merger
A Justice Department probe into Raytheon Technologies’ allegedly anticompetitive hiring practices is a signal of more of the agency’s criminal enforcement in the labor market, attorneys...
France’s TF1 To Sell TFX Channel To Secure Merger
France’s TF1 and M6 and Altice Media have begun exclusive negotiations for the sale of two key entertainment channels owned by the broadcasters to...
DOJ Deadline To Block Change & UnitedHealth Merger Approaching Fast
The Department of Justice has until Saturday, February 27 to block the merger between UnitedHealth Group and Change Healthcare, according to a Securities and...
FTC Sues To Stop Hospital Merger
On Thursday the US FTC said that it would file a lawsuit aimed at stopping the merger of Rhode Island's two largest health care...
UK Watchdog Fines JD Sports & Footasylum For Data Sharing Post...
UK’s competition regulator has fined JD Sports and Footasylum almost £5mn for sharing commercially sensitive information, including during one meeting in a car park...
Shareholders Oppose Quarz $3B Singapore REIT Merger
Activist investor Quarz Capital Management said it is opposed to the terms of a proposed $3.1 billion merger of two Temasek-linked Singapore real estate...