A merger is a voluntary legal agreement executed between two different companies to unite them into a new entity. Mergers allow companies to recognize new synergies, reduce costs, expand their ...

The Draft Guidelines consolidate horizontal and non-horizontal merger analysis into a single instrument. The Draft Guidelines give more emphasis to the positive impact of mergers that create scale, ...

On 30 April 2026, the European Commission (the Commission) published its long-awaited draft merger guidelines (the draft Guidelines), which are open for public consultation until 26 June 2026. [1] ...

The FDIC, OCC, and DOJ each took separate actions in September 2024 to significantly rewrite their approaches to bank merger review. Specifically: The FDIC, following a proposed statement issued in ...

Since 2009, the United States has experienced another wave of hospital mergers. Consequently, health systems are getting larger and increasing their market concentration. How patients benefit from ...