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Merger Control
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Bright Law Blog
Government Merger Reform proposals
The Australian Government has issued a merger reform paper with proposals intending to make Australia’s merger control system stronger, simpler, targeted, faster and transparent. The new merger control system will…
Global Policy Watch
New HSR Rules Will be Finalized Within Weeks, According to DOJ Official
By Jim O’Connell, James R. Dean Jr., Ross Demain, Ryan Quillian, Stacy Kobrick
Last summer, the antitrust agencies proposed sweeping changes to the Hart-Scott-Rodino (“HSR”) Act premerger notification form and associated rules. Covered in detail here, the proposed changes would significantly increase the time,…
Allens Insights
Treasurer hails fifth wave of competition reform
By Allens
Businesses need to be ready for the biggest overhaul of merger clearance rules in decades 5 min read The reforms will, according to Dr Chalmers, result in a 'stronger, simpler,…
Competition chronicle
Merger Transaction-Size Threshold Remains Frozen at C$93M; Investment Canada Act Review Thresholds Increased
By Leslie J. Milton, Robin Spillette
Competition Act Merger Notification Thresholds The Canadian government has announced that the transaction-size threshold for pre-notification under the Competition Act will remain at C$93M for 2024. This is the third…
China Law Insight
CHINA ADOPTS NEW THRESHOLDS FOR MERGER FILINGS
By King & Wood
Authored by: Liu Cheng , Audrey Li , Xu Shiwei and Yelena Wang On January 26, 2024, the State Council published the Provisions of the State Council on the Standard…
Cleary Antitrust Watch
China Introduces Revisions to Merger Notification Thresholds
By Cunzhen Huang, Yiming Sun, Huanbing Xu
More than one and half year after the amendments to China’s Anti-Monopoly Law (the “AML”) came into effect, the State Council of China approved on December 29, 2023 and published…
The Right Coast
iRobot Lays Off 350 Employees as Amazon Kills Merger Elizabeth Warren Opposed
Today, Amazon terminated its planned acquisition of iRobot, manufacturer of Roomba robot vacuums, as the companies saw "no path to regulatory approval." iRobot then announced that it would be cutting…
Employment Law Lookout
FTC Announces Hart-Scott-Rodino Act Thresholds and Filing Fees for 2024
Brandon L. Bigelow and Sam Rowley Seyfarth Synopsis: On January 22, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that the 2024 threshold for applying the size-of-parties test of the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Act…
All About Advertising Law
FTC Constitutional Challenge Update: Fifth Circuit Delivers Illumina a Stocking Full of Coal
Last week, the Fifth Circuit handed down an across-the-board rejection of four constitutional challenges raised by gene sequencing company Illumina in defending against the Federal Trade Commission’s merger challenge. Bah!…
Allens Insights
WIP: Australian Treasury commences consultation
By Allens
Our current regime is fit for purpose, but what has been put forward? 15 min read Possible changes to Australia's merger control rules have been on the table for some…