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Category: M&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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Golf Merger on LIV Support?

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Readers of this blog by now have become all too familiar with greenwashing, a scornful term critics use to paint business interests’ sustainability programs as public-relations ploys. Let us now introduce you to one of its lesser-known cous...

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New Intelligize Report Documents M&A Decline in 2022

Corporate mergers and acquisitions fell off dramatically in 2022, and activity doesn’t appear to be picking up anytime soon. That’s the key takeaway from The Intelligize M&A Report, a new study published today on dealmaking activity in...

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Big Tech Cases Part of Larger Antitrust Campaign

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President Biden’s administration doesn’t share much in common with its predecessor – from temperament to policy positions to governing style. One notable exception, however, appears to be their willingness to take on one of big tech’s bigge...

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