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ACCC approves banking tie-up
Friday, 18 November 2011
Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) is set to acquire mortgage and financial planning group Count Financial after the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) announced yesterday it would not oppose the A$373 million deal.
Almunia backs approach in US merger guidelines
Thursday, 08 September 2011
The European Commission's competition head says that using economic analysis in tandem with traditional indicators of market concentration is often the best way to predict a merger's potential effect on competition. Ron Knox in New York
Pozen defends role of merger guidelines in AT&T/T-Mobile challenge
Wednesday, 07 September 2011
The head of the US Department of Justice’s antitrust division today defended the role of the country’s new merger guidelines in the government’s challenge of a proposed tie-up between AT&T and T-Mobile. Ron Knox in New York
Second Circuit upholds dismissal of health insurance merger challenge
Friday, 19 August 2011
The dismissal of an antitrust lawsuit filed against two New York health insurers will stand, after the US Second Circuit court of appeals agreed that the City of New York failed to define the market in which the two insurers operated.
Mergers pick up at the DoJ amid revised guidelines
Premium Article - Thursday, 18 November 2010
The past 12 months have been a busy time at the US Department of Justice’s antitrust division – with a notable uptick in mergers and fresh guidelines cementing the agency’s approach to analysing deals, a senior DoJ official says. Ron Knox in Washington, DC.
UK agencies approve new merger guidelines
Premium Article - Thursday, 16 September 2010
The UK’s new merger control regime will follow the global trend eschewing market share in favour of analysing a tie-up’s competitive effects and other, more in-depth economic analysis.
US antitrust specialists criticise merger guidelines
Premium Article - Friday, 15 January 2010
Four senior antitrust specialists yesterday told the US antitrust agencies that they need to tread carefully as they consider whether to change they way they analyse mergers that may result in a company gaining substantial market power. Ron Knox in San Francisco
ABA says merger guidelines should change
Premium Article - Tuesday, 10 November 2009
The antitrust section of the American Bar Association has told both US antitrust agencies that the guidelines used to explain how they examine horizontal mergers should change to reflect current practices and economic thinking.
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