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NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Saudi Arabia's General Authority for Competition recently announced key changes to its merger control notification thresholds, adding a new local nexus test and a new minimum turnover threshold for the acquired entity.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

White & Case Global Antitrust Merger StatPak (WAMS)—the first real-time clearinghouse for global merger notification data—has analyzed merger notifications in reporting jurisdictions around the first half of calendar year 2023 (H1 2023: January 1, 2023 – June 30, 2023).

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AUGUST 15, 2023

Department of Justice (DOJ) Antitrust Division (collectively, the Agencies) are continuing to make good on their promise to increase scrutiny of mergers and acquisitions through newly proposed HSR rules and revised merger guidelines. By: Husch Blackwell LLP

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OCTOBER 30, 2023

The Q&A provides a high-level overview of the antitrust and competition law rules for restraints of trade and dominance, merger control and the legal approach to joint ventures. A Q&A guide to competition law in Canada. Pleases see full Publication below for more information. By: Stikeman Elliott LLP

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NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Key Takeaways - An FTC merger settlement in the $5.2 billion transaction between EQT and Quantum, two producers of natural gas in the Appalachian Basin, signals the antitrust agencies’ new approach to analyzing the potential for coordination by examining touchpoints between merging parties and competitors.

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OCTOBER 27, 2023

Merger and acquisition (M&A) transactions are facing ever longer regulatory reviews and an increasingly uncertain outcome.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has (mostly) confirmed the European Commission (EC)’s decision to fine Altice for implementing a transaction prior to its notification and the EC’s merger control clearance. By: Allen & Overy LLP

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Midaxo

JULY 21, 2023

Execute with confidence Post-merger integration (PMI) is a fundamental stage in realizing the value of an M&A deal. A successful post-merger integration typically requires changes in a company’s business operations, people, processes, culture and structure. Download the Complete Guide to Post-Merger Integration 2.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission released a draft update of the Merger Guidelines and invited public comments. antitrust agencies analyze the competitive effects of mergers. If adopted, the Proposed Guidelines would represent a substantial change in the way the U.S. The agencies propose thirteen separate guidelines.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

A group of 19 Democratic AGs submitted a comment letter to the DOJ and the FTC in support of the agencies’ efforts to strengthen the Merger Guidelines, the standards used to determine whether mergers and acquisitions comply with federal antitrust law. By: Cozen O'Connor

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OCTOBER 11, 2023

Davies’ Canadian Mergers & Acquisitions guide draws on our substantial cross-border M&A experience to offer guidance on both the legal framework and practical aspects of Canadian mergers and acquisitions, including critical tax and regulatory considerations. Please see full Guide below for more information.

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TechCrunch: M&A

OCTOBER 26, 2023

A long-expected merger of two of the world’s biggest memory chip companies — Western Digital and Japan’s Kioxia — may be hampered by one of Kioxa’s shareholders, SK Hynix.

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OCTOBER 10, 2023

As part of its continuing effort to encourage corporate voluntary disclosures, the Department of Justice announced revised voluntary disclosure policies applicable to mergers and acquisitions.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Once the merger closes, you are out. And although the other existing shareholders will have their shares exchanged for shares of the new corporation, your shares will be cancelled and exchanged for cash. By: Farrell Fritz, P.C.

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JD Supra: Mergers

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Department of Justice Antitrust Division (“DOJ”) recently introduced proposed revisions to the existing merger guidelines. The new draft guidelines, if enacted in a form similar to the current draft, would represent a seismic shift in how the agencies approach antitrust merger investigations.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2023

On November 20, 2023, the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced proposed reforms to its in-depth merger control review process (the phase 2 review) that seek to provide more opportunities for engagement with decision makers and incentivise parties to bring forward remedies at an early stage.

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OCTOBER 31, 2023

merger investigations concluded in either a complaint or an abandoned transaction. United States - All significant U.S. Four of the last five quarters have now concluded without any consent agreements, demonstrating the agencies’ continued hostility to remedies and settlements short of litigation. By: Dechert LLP

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OCTOBER 26, 2023

As part of a continuing and extensive effort this year to update and strengthen Department of Justice (“DOJ”) policies aimed at deterring corporate misconduct, the DOJ announced on October 4, 2023, that it was implementing a new Mergers & Acquisitions Safe Harbor Policy.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

In-depth merger control reviews are intense and time-pressured matters. As a result, merging companies and their advisors are challenged to meet regulators’ ever-growing demands for internal documents.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The European Commission has just published its current thinking on green mergers. Recognizing that competition law must play its part in achieving the European Green Deal, the Commission sets the scene and explains how its merger policy can support and complement environmental goals.

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OCTOBER 27, 2023

The Department of Justice (DOJ) recently unveiled a policy for voluntary disclosure of misconduct in mergers and acquisitions (M&A). This is another in a series of recent initiatives relating to corporate compliance, including updates to relevant guidance and corporate voluntary self-disclosure.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2023

A merger filing will be required if each of the following thresholds are met: The new thresholds mark a significant change from the previous thresholds, which required only that the combined annual worldwide turnover of all parties exceeded SAR200m. By: Allen & Overy LLP

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

In a recent post, we discussed the 13 guidelines set forth in the recently issued proposed Hospital Merger Guidelines (“Draft Guidelines”) issued by the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice (the “Agencies”).

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OCTOBER 19, 2023

On October 4, 2023, the Department of Justice’s (“DOJ”) Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco announced a new “Mergers & Acquisitions Safe Harbor Policy” (“M&A Safe Harbor Policy” or “Policy”) for companies that voluntarily self-disclose corporate criminal misconduct to the Department of Justice.

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JULY 25, 2023

Mergers and acquisitions will continue to face strong headwinds at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the US Department of Justice (DOJ) under new proposed Merger Guidelines released on July 19, 2023.

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OCTOBER 11, 2023

4, 2023, in remarks delivered to the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics’ 22nd Annual Compliance & Ethics Institute, Deputy Attorney General (AG) Lisa Monaco announced the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) new Mergers & Acquisitions Safe Harbor Policy. By: Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

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OCTOBER 6, 2023

Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco announced a new safe harbor policy for voluntary self-disclosures made in connection with mergers and acquisitions on Wednesday. Pursuant to this new policy, the DOJ will not prosecute companies that self-report potential violations occurring within an acquisition target's business.

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OCTOBER 10, 2023

Our White Collar, Government & Internal Investigations and Mergers & Acquisitions Teams explain how acquiring companies can find a limited safe harbor from enforcement when they find pre-merger misconduct. By: Alston & Bird

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

In July, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ) released a draft of proposed new merger guidelines, 18 months after FTC Chair Lina Khan and Assistant Attorney General Jonathan Kanter announced plans to “modernize” the agencies’ approach to merger enforcement.

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AUGUST 15, 2023

antitrust enforcers, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) and the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) (collectively, the “Agencies”), released draft merger guidelines for public comment (“Draft Guidelines”). vOn July 19, 2023, the U.S. By: King & Spalding

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

On September 5, 2023 the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Department of Justice (DOJ) (the Agencies) hosted the first of three planned workshops intended to “facilitate public dialogue” on the 2023 FTC and DOJ Draft Merger Guidelines (the draft guidelines). If adopted, the guidelines would memorialize the Agencies’.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

It is the first time that SAMR has issued special compliance guidelines in the field of merger control. The State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) issued Antitrust Compliance Guidelines for Concentrations of Undertakings (Guidelines) on 11 September 2023. Please see full Publication below for more information.

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OCTOBER 17, 2023

Monaco addressed the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics and announced a new Department-wide Mergers & Acquisition (M&A) Safe Harbor policy. On October 4, Deputy Attorney General Lisa O.

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AUGUST 16, 2023

Department of Justice (DOJ) Antitrust Division (collectively, the Agencies) are continuing to make good on their promise to increase scrutiny of mergers and acquisitions through newly proposed rules and revised merger guidelines. By: Husch Blackwell LLP

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Beyond M&A

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Merging tech companies, the dreaded post-merger stage, often presents a host of difficulties, as does navigating a business during a global pandemic. Revenue Growth Post-Merger : Starting from zero and scaling to $36 million in revenue in a mere 18 months is no minor feat.

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OCTOBER 30, 2023

Monaco announced that the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) is implementing a new nationwide Mergers & Acquisitions Safe Harbor Policy (the “M&A Policy”). On October 4, 2023, Deputy U.S. Attorney General Lisa O. By: McCarter & English, LLP

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JULY 28, 2023

On July 19, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Department of Justice (DOJ) released for comment proposed joint merger guidelines which seek to replace the agencies’ vertical merger guidelines released in 2020 and horizontal merger guidelines released in 2010.

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