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JetBlue merger with Spirit not cleared for takeoff – why Justice Department is suing to scupper deal

The U.S. Department of Justice has intervened to block a proposed deal that would see carrier JetBlue buy budget service Spirit Airlines.

The Conversation

Asset managers turn to M&A

Wealth and asset management companies plan to use mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in both scale and scope this year to seize opportunities as the sector anticipates growth opportunities worth US$250 billion by 2030, a recent study found.

Bangkok Post

Telenor Asia anticipates $2.5bn gain via synergy

Telenor Asia expects gains worth up to US$2.5 billion from synergy over the next three years from the mergers of True Corporation and Total Access Communication (DTAC) in Thailand and Celcom and Digi in Malaysia.

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Salesforce just said goodbye to its M&A committee

Salesforce bows to investor demands and disbands its mergers and acquisitions team.

Fortune

China M&A Deals Plunged 34% to Nine-Year Low in 2022

Economic headwinds and pandemic disruptions similarly slowed global mergers and acquisitions, management consultant Bain reports

Caixin Global

Firms persist with M&A to expand

Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) will remain a key strategy for companies globally to expand markets and value chains amid increasing turbulence, according to a new report.

Bangkok Post

Türkiye Establishes Presence in Syria with 10,000 Soldiers, Dozens of Military Bases

For the past months, Turkish armed forces in northwestern Syria de-escalation zones have carried out redeployment and mergers at military points that were established under a Turkish-Russian agreement in 2017. According to an agreement within the framework of the Astana talks, Türkiye gained the opportunity to expand its deployment of…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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Mergers shake up the landscape

Amid economic challenges and rapid changes in various sectors, the strategic approach of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) was used to help businesses stay afloat and elevate their competitiveness, in addition to partnership agreements.

Bangkok Post

The FTC Has No Business Trying To Stop Video Game Company Mergers

It’s one of the most competitive industries in the world, and there’s no good reason to stop Microsoft from acquiring Activision Blizzard.

Reason

Lebanese Banks Battered by Meltdown Struggle to Survive

Lebanon’s once burgeoning banking sector has been hard hit by the country’s historic economic meltdown. It has suffered staggering losses worth tens of billions of dollars and many of the small nation’s lenders now face possible closures or mergers. Yet bankers have been resisting attempts to make their shareholders assume…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Astronomers trace powerful gamma rays to a never-before-seen stellar phenomenon

The kilonova explosion may have been the result of a white dwarf-neutron star merger.

Inverse

Gulf leads the way in M&A category

Gulf Energy Development Plc won the "Deal of the Year Awards -- Mergers & Acquisitions Deal" award for the tender offer for securities of Intouch Holdings Plc and Advanced Info Service Plc (ADVANC) at the 19th SET Awards ceremony, held at the Stock Exchange of Thailand.

Bangkok Post

Gov. Jay Inslee, lawmakers aim to keep anti-abortion 'tentacles' out of Washington

SEATTLE — Washington Gov. Jay Inslee and state Democratic lawmakers revealed details Friday about a push to enact a "shield law" that would protect abortion patients and providers from out-of-state legal action, and announced two more bills in the works designed to ensure to reproductive health care access.

Tribune News Service

DOJ antitrust losses in court are seen as setback for Biden’s merger crackdown

In the span of just a month, federal judges rejected the U.S. Justice Department’s attempts to block three mergers in the health technology, agriculture and defense contracting industries.

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Satisfactory cheats – top tips for starting out

Satisfactory can be tough when you're starting out, but these tips will help so much it'll feel like cheating.

Insider UK

Insider's 2022 deal-maker directory

We've rounded up all the companies in Scotland helping to get deals done

Tribune News Service

American-JetBlue antitrust trial testing limits of industry consolidation

American Airlines CEO Robert Isom told a federal judge Monday that the carrier was hindered in markets like New York and Boston because of the headstart that Delta and others had as blockbuster mergers shrunk the industry over the last two decades.

AAP

Community bank mergers get green light

Treasury has endorsed mergers between Heritage Bank and People's Choice Credit Union, and the Greater Bank and Newcastle Permanent Building Society.

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Reason

Flying Is a Mess Right Now, but Elizabeth Warren Is Wrong To Blame Airline Mergers

Why does Elizabeth Warren think that JetBlue buying Spirit Airlines will be bad for consumers?

The New Daily

Superannuation has performed well, but change is afoot with rising rates

Superannuation has been the place to be over the last five years with the latest figures from SuperRatings showing that the top performing balanced funds

Birmingham Post

Shakespeare Martineau and Lime Solicitors parent company hits record revenues

Ampa group expected to pass through £100 million barrier in its next financial year

Bangkok Post

True, DTAC hit back at allegations by AIS

True Corporation and Total Access Communication (DTAC) have hit back and denied allegations of disrespecting the regulators' authority levelled by the head of their main rival, Advanced Info Service (AIS).

Benzinga

Are Further Airline Mergers At The Gate?

Recent multi-billion dollar mergers and upbeat earnings reports in the airline industry have revived optimism in the sector and on airline stocks as investors turn bullish on the sector’s potential after being paralyzed by the COVID-19 pandemic in the past two years.

Bangkok Post

AIS presses NBTC on mega merger

The chief of Advanced Info Service (AIS) is pushing the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) to decide whether to approve or decline the True-DTAC mega merger, noting that the agency has the legal authority to do so.

Reason

Elizabeth Warren Wants To Stop Airline Mergers, Despite Evidence That They Lower Airfares

The senator urged the Department of Transportation on Monday to regulate airline consolidation and levy heavy fines for canceled flights.

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