Tag: Merger
Health Merger Nixed After New Hampshire AG Objects
Two health care providers based in New Hampshire, Dartmouth Health and GraniteOne Health are ditching their plans to merge after objections from the state's...
Democrats Introduce Bill Prohibiting Mergers Over $5B
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Rep. Mondaire Jones (D-N.Y.) introduced a bill Wednesday that would give federal antitrust enforcers greater power to block and...
US Antitrust Regulators Plan Overhaul Of Merger Approval Process
The Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) launched a joint effort to modernize antitrust enforcement, seeking comment on how the agencies can...
US Antitrust Regulator Slows Down Oil & Gas Mergers
According to regulatory filings, US antitrust regulators have extended the approval process for at least five oil and gas mergers and acquisitions in the last...
Intel In Talks To Buy GlobalFoundries for $30B
Intel is in talks to buy semiconductor manufacturer GlobalFoundries Inc for about $30 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing people familiar...
Australia Sees $156B Pension Merger As New Laws Lead To Consolidation
Australian pension funds QSuper and Sunsuper announced on Monday, March 15, they will merge, forming the country’s largest single manager of retirement savings as...
Goodyear-Cooper Tire Announce Mega-Merger
The announced combination of Goodyear and Cooper Tire, the largest and fifth-largest tire manufacturers in North America, is set to not only increase competition...
EssilorLuxottica May Reconsider GrandVision Deal
EssilorLuxottica, the maker of Ray-Ban sunglasses, is reconsidering its agreed €7.3 billion (US$8.8 billion) purchase of optical retailer GrandVision NV over legal and pandemic...
Clover Health To Go Public In $3.7B Deal
Clover Health, a tech-driven provider of Medicare Advantage insurance plans, plans to go public through a merger with a blank-check company called Social Capital...
The DOJ Issues Modernized Merger Remedies Manual
The Department of Justice issued the Merger Remedies Manual, which provides a framework for the Antitrust Division to structure and implement appropriate relief that...
