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The European Commission is investigating whether Paramount Skydance would need to abandon a long-standing joint venture to distribute films with Universal Pictures to address competition concerns over its proposed merger with Warner Bros. Discovery, according to three people with direct...
DOJ antitrust division’s political leadership for months imposed tight restrictions on career staff’s investigation of Paramount Skydance’s (PSKY) $81 billion deal to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), preventing agency attorneys from deposing key Paramount executives or...
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Welcome to The European Antitrust Agenda, our weekly overview of EU and UK competition law developments. Key stories we’re following this week...
Welcome to The Antitrust Agenda, our weekly analysis of timing and priorities at the FTC, DOJ, and state AG offices. Key stories we’re following this week...
Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward is emerging as the victor in an internal fight that had threatened his role as DOJ’s No. 3 official, sources familiar with the matter said. Woodward is a major architect of the Trump administration’s light-touch antitrust enforcement – an...
Optimism for Democratic nominees could pave way for unshackling of Export-Import Bank; Scott says housing bill deal as soon as next week. In public, the fight over partisan agency board seats continued this week with Senate Democrats calling on President Donald Trump to drop his blockade...
JD.com’s proposed acquisition of Ceconomy could squeeze out EU-based consumer electronics retailers and manufacturers by favoring Chinese products on Ceconomy’s platform, executives at European consumer electronics retailers told The Capitol...
Proponents — and opponents — of Cintas’ (CTAS) proposed $5.5 billion acquisition of uniform rental rival UniFirst (UNF) are stepping up their efforts to lobby the White House ahead of a Thursday 11:59 p.m. deadline for the FTC to decide whether to deepen its investigation into the...
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