Tag: Antitrust
Novavax Builds Legal Teams After Antitrust Scrutiny
Novavax and the Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute have added in-house talent after separately facing legal scrutiny for actions the companies’ leaders took,...
Kansas City Southern Mega-Merger Faces Antitrust Scrutiny
Pushback from the US Justice Department has complicated the proposed railroad mega-merger between Canadian Pacific Railway and Kansas City Southern, reported Bloomberg.
Canadian Pacific agreed last...
Chinese Watchdog Asks Ant Group To Conduct Major Overhaul
Chinese regulators have ordered Ant Group, a financial affiliate of e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding, to become a financial holding company to ease financial...
Co-Founder Of Crowdfunding App Says UK Regulator Stifled Competition
The boss of crowdfunding platform Seedrs has warned that the UK competition watchdog risks stifling government ambitions to create a booming tech sector after...
Goodwin Adds Longtime Simpson Thacher Antitrust Attorney
Global law firm Goodwin announced that Andrew Lacy joined the firm as partner in the Antitrust and Competition practice, resident in the Washington, DC,...
Apollo Global Eyes $10B Aramco Deal
Apollo Global Management is leading a group of investors aiming to buy a roughly US$10 billion stake in Saudi Aramco’s oil pipelines, reported Bloomberg.
The...
GOP Senators Call For Revoking MLB’s Antitrust Status After Game Pulled...
Major League Baseball should lose its decades-old antitrust exemption, two Republican US senators said Friday night, April 2.
US Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas and Mike...
Amazon Prepares Its Defense Against Antitrust Scrutiny
Amazon is gearing up to defend itself against a mushrooming battle over the company’s alleged anticompetitive business practices, in arenas spanning Congress, federal agencies,...
Biden Struggling To Fill DOJ Antitrust Seat: Politico
President Joe Biden’s search for the Justice Department’s top trust-busting role is being bogged down by ethics concerns, both about candidates who have represented...
Canada & Germany Clear Teledyne Financial Acquisition
Teledyne Technologies has announced that it received antitrust clearance for the pending acquisition of FLIR Systems, from regulatory authorities in Canada and Germany.
On Wednesday,...
