EU regulators block London Stock Exchange’s £21bn merger with German stock exchange Deutsche Boerse.The European Commission said the deal would have created a “de facto monopoly” for certain financial services.
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ON JANUARY 17th shareholders of Liberty Media Corporation, an American firm controlled by John Malone, a billionaire, are expected to approve a transaction that many hail as the sports deal of the decade. In September 2016 Liberty agreed to buy the Formula One (F1) motor-racing franchise from CVC, a private-equity group, for $8bn.
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European Union antitrust regulators have charged Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) with providing misleading information during its takeover of WhatsApp, opening the company to a possible fine of 1 percent of its turnover. The statement of objections sent to Facebook will not have an impact on the approval of the $22 billion merger in 2014, the European Commission said in a statement on Tuesday.
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Russia’s state owned gas monopoly Gazprom is planning to send its final proposal to the European Union to settle antitrust charges, the company said in a statement on October 26. The same day it learned that the European Commission (EC) would allow it to use up to 80% of the contentious Opal pipeline.
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EU regulators are considering whether companies that gain access to valuable data via small M&A deals should seek approval for these acquisitions to ensure that they will not hurt competition, the EU’s antitrust chief said on Thursday.
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Chinese state-owned companies seeking to buy European assets are going to face greater regulatory scrutiny following a landmark European Commission decision on a recent deal.
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Turkey’s Competition Board has approved the sale of Digiturk to Qatari beIN Media Group, but the state fund that runs the pay TV platform said the bargaining process was still continuing
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