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Australian Mandatory Merger Clearance: Regime Details Starting to Emerge – Government Publishes Draft Determination, ACCC...

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On 28 March 2025, the Australian Government (the Government) published its draft Determination providing the beginnings of detail about the acquisitions that are the subject of mandatory notification, some of the exceptions...more

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Bill Could Create Notification Requirement for Texas Healthcare Transactions

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On Feb. 12, 2025, the Texas House of Representatives introduced House Bill 2747, which would require entities to report certain healthcare transactions to the Texas attorney general. Currently, Texas does not require entities...more

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Deal Done: Mandatory Merger Clearance in Australia Becomes Law

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It is now confirmed that Australia will have a mandatory and suspensory (competition) pre-merger clearance regime with the passing of legislation last week....more

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Australia enacts mandatory merger control law

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Australia’s mandatory suspensory merger control regime will come into force on 1 January 2026 following the passing of legislation by both houses of Parliament, representing a major shift for businesses, their advisors and...more

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Australia to implement mandatory merger control regime by 2026

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Australia will soon shift to a mandatory and suspensory merger control regime, with the transition commencing mid-2025. We provide below our key takeaways and observations on the bill which now has the support of both major...more

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Navigating the New UAE Competition Law: Moving Towards EU Principles? Part 2—UAE Merger Control vs. EU Merger Regulation

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On the merger control front, the New Competition Law introduced a new turnover threshold, in addition to the existing market share threshold, in the context of regulating economic concentrations (as defined below) between...more

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Juntos - September 2024

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Welcome to Juntos, our bulletin that explores antitrust and competition developments across US-Latin America. In this issue, we look at key headlines from throughout 2024....more

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Australian Government Proposes Monetary and Market Share Thresholds for Mandatory Merger Clearance Regime

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The Australian Government (the Government) opened consultation on Australia’s proposed merger notification thresholds. The Consultation Paper proposes a notification regime that consists of four different thresholds—two based...more

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State Healthcare Transaction Notification Laws - Oregon

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Key Takeaways - ..Requires parties to seek approval from the Oregon Health Authority (“OHA”) for certain healthcare mergers, acquisitions, affiliations and other transactions involving “health care entities”. ..Under...more

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Faster, Stronger, and Simpler? Australia’s New Merger Control Regime

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On 10 April 2024, Australia’s Federal Government announced far-reaching reforms to its merger control regime, most notably the introduction of a new single, mandatory and suspensory, merger control system. The reform package...more

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Government Announces Australia to Have a Mandatory and Suspensory Merger Control Regime

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In a move that has long been advocated for by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), the Australian government has announced sweeping reforms to Australia's competition law merger control regime....more

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Client Alert: FTC Announces 2024 HSR Thresholds

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The annual revisions to the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Act reporting thresholds have arrived. The new thresholds for notification will apply to all transactions that close on or after the effective date of the notice, which is...more

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EU FSR – the notification regime begins; what does it mean for infrastructure investors?

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The EU is concerned about subsidies granted by non-EU countries to businesses active in the EU that could distort competition in EU markets. The Foreign Subsidies Regulation (FSR) establishes a new suspensory notification...more

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EU FSR – the notification regime begins; what does it mean for private equity investors?

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The EU is concerned about subsidies granted by non-EU countries to businesses active in the EU, that could distort competition in EU markets. The Foreign Subsidies Regulation (FSR) establishes a new regime, enforced by the...more

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Mandatory Notification Obligations Under the EU’s Foreign Subsidies Regulation Kick In: Are You Ready?

Starting today, October 12, 2023, the mandatory notification requirements under the EU’s Foreign Subsidies Regulation (FSR) apply. M&A deals involving businesses that (i) have been granted certain levels of financial support...more

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The EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation (FSR) Has Now Taken Effect

The new EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation (FSR) has now finally taken effect. Under the FSR the European Commission (EC) will have new powers to intervene against distortions to competition in the EU internal market caused by...more

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FTC and DOJ Propose Major Overhaul of Merger Guidelines

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On July 19, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Justice Antitrust Division (DOJ) (collectively, the Agencies) issued revised Merger Guidelines (Proposed Guidelines) that if adopted would lead to...more

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Morocco Competition Council Announces Merger Control Amendments

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Morocco has enacted amendments to its competition law that will have significant impacts on its merger control regime. The amendments include increasing the minimum turnover thresholds for merger control filings, introducing...more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

New York Proposes Regulatory Review and Approval of Material Health Care Entity Transactions

On February 1, 2023, New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced the Fiscal Year 2024 New York State Executive Budget (the Executive Budget). One component of the Executive Budget’s Health and Mental Hygiene Article VII...more

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EU draft Foreign Subsidies implementing regulation sets out far-reaching notification requirements

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On 6 February 2023, the European Commission (EC) launched a public consultation on a draft implementing regulation (IR) which sets out procedural rules relating to the EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation (FSR)....more

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New Competition Regimes and Increased Antitrust Enforcement across the Middle East & North Africa

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The tidal wave of antitrust activity throughout the Middle East & North Africa is expected to continue rising in 2023, as several jurisdictions across the region have started to amend their competition laws, introduce new...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Änderung der Inhaberkontrollverordnung

Am 28. Dezember 2022 ist die geänderte „Verordnung über die Anzeigen nach § 2c des Kreditwesengesetzes und § 17 des Versicherungsaufsichtsgesetzes“, die sogenannte Inhaberkontrollverordnung (InhKontrollV), in Kraft getreten....more

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Congress Overhauls Merger Filing Fees and Thresholds

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Congress has passed—and President Biden is expected to sign into law today—the Merger Filing Fee Modernization Act, which will significantly change antitrust merger notification regulations under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act...more

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SEC Proposes Rules to Include Certain Significant Market Participants as “Dealers” or “Government Securities Dealers”

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In This Issue. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed rules to include certain significant market participants as “dealers” or “government securities dealers” to essentially eliminate the trader exclusion...more

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An Emerging State Trend: Increasing Oversight of Physician Group Practice Transactions

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On October 1, 2021, Nevada became the latest of a small but growing number of states extending regulatory oversight of healthcare transactions involving physician practices. Over the past decade, several states have passed or...more

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