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Who’s Susan Morris? Albertsons exec from Denver would run merger’s divested stores | Business
Since the first day of trial in Colorado, lawyers for Kroger and Albertsons have repeatedly brought up the name of a grocery executive they believe has the adequate experience to run more than 500 divested stores: Susan Morris.Morris, the…
FTC makes updates to pre-merger policies
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The Federal Trade Commission has made changes to a rule meant to improve its ability to detect illegal mergers and acquisitions before they happen, by requiring healthcare companies to provide more…
Microsoft settles antitrust lawsuit contesting Activision Blizzard acquisition
Microsoft has settled a lawsuit against last year's $69 billion purchase of Activision Blizzard brought forth by Call of Duty players.In late 2022, the 10 players (who lived in California, New Mexico, and New Jersey) filed a private…
Goldman profit jumps 45% as dealmaking phases resume
Goldman Sachs ( GS ) third-quarter profit jumped 45% from a year ago as deal and stock trading boosted the Wall Street firm
Net income was nearly $3 billion, up from $2 billion in the third quarter of 2023. Investment banking fees were…
Acquisitions mustn’t threaten the privacy of our personal data
The company then sequences the genetic material in the sample and generates a report about their ancestry, the risk that they may be carriers of disease markers or have a predisposition to certain illnesses, and how…
Capital raised in Spanish M&A market rises 27% in third quarter 2024
The Spanish transactional market registered a total of 2,319 mergers and acquisitions, between announced and closed, for an aggregate amount of EUR 74,677m up to the third quarter of 2024, according to TTR Data‘s quarterly report. These…
While big M&A deals abound, many smaller ones hit pause button
The mergers and acquisitions market is in a state of flux as 2024 heads to a close. Even as the volume of large deals is rising, the volume of smaller ones is declining as many dealmakers,…
With growth at a standstill, Papa Murphy’s owner looks for acquisitions
Papa Murphy's franchisees have been closing locations. | Photo: Shutterstock.Growth has been hard to come by at MTY Food Group, the Montreal-based brand collector, though it owns several different types of chains both in the U.S. and…
Customer losses, 5G costs: UScellular makes its case for the merger with T-Mobile US
As the Federal Communications Commission considers T-Mobile US’ proposed $4.4 billion acquisition of UScellular, the latter company’s executives recently sat down with FCC representatives to make the case in favor of the merger.
The…
US Federal Trade Commission Issues Final Rules on HSR Pre-Merger Reporting
More than a year after the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) first proposed far-reaching changes to Hart-Scott-Rodino Act (HSR) pre-merger notification rules, the FTC—via a unanimous and therefore bipartisan vote of its…