Financials Friday: Trump Debanking Crusade Could Buttress a Consumer Protection Law; Cboe Joins Rush to Offer Popular Crypto Bets; U.S. Banks Look to Shed Low-Yielding Loans and Investments; Banks Fair Lending Gets an Inadvertent Boost in Debanking Crusade

Nexstar/Tegna: With Massive DMA Overlap, Buyer Plans to Argue Changed Market Dynamics. Is it Enough to Convince Slater to Abandon Decades of DOJ Practice?

Nexstar’s (NXST) proposed $6.2 billion acquisition of rival broadcast television group Tegna (TGNA) is at first glance an audacious bet—the deal not only violates multiple FCC rules, but is also...

Merger Monthly: The Antitrust Division is Open for Dealmaking, With Partial UnitedHealth/Amedisys Fix the Latest Example; Outlook for Key Transactions Including Mars/Kellanova, Omnicom/Interpublic and Union Pacific/Norfolk Southern

DOJ’s August 7 consent decree settling its long-running litigation challenge to UnitedHealth’s $3.3 billion purchase of home health rival Amedisys “secure the largest divestiture of outpatient...

Stanley Woodward Included in Second Batch of Trump Nominees Thune Will Bring to Confirmation Vote

Senator John Thune (R-SD) will include Stanley Woodward, the president’s choice to become DOJ’s No. 3 official, in a second batch of nominees that Republicans plan to bring to the Senate floor...