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Category: M&A

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Could FTC’s Updated Premerger Notification Form Usher Heavier Filing Burden?

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The Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice Antitrust Division on October 10 announced approval of long-awaited changes to a premerger notification form that provides information used to screen proposed deals. Critics fear updati...

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Boosted by AI, Nuclear Power is Having a Moment

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It’s a widely shared concern that artificial intelligence has the potential to create disaster of some kind for our species. It seems only fitting, then, that to feed the energy needs of its AI services, Microsoft has turned to the nuclear...

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M&A Showing Signs of Life in 2024

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Is the Intelligize team clairvoyant? We’re obviously not, however, we must note that our recent M&A report states that oil and gas is an industry primed for consolidation. And then, as if on cue, oilfield services giant SLB on April 2 a...

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DOJ, FTC Propose New Guidelines for Evaluating Mergers

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Recently, we told you about the steep decline in mergers and acquisitions as documented in an Intelligize report on dealmaking in 2022. The research showed that companies aren’t announcing as many deals as they have in the past. Moreover, m...

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Big Tech Notches Antitrust Wins Despite Aggressive Government Enforcement

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The Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission this month suffered another stinging court loss in a big tech antitrust case, raising questions about the effectiveness of the Biden administration’s aggressive enforcement of antitrust...

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