Insights: Mergers & Acquisitions

Mergers & Acquisitions

Omnicom/Interpublic

The merger’s 30-day HSR waiting period is set to expire on February 6.

Mergers & Acquisitions

he DOJ filed a lawsuit last week seeking to enjoin the proposed merger. The case was assigned yesterday to Northern California Federal District Court Judge P. Casey Pitts, a 2022 Biden appointee. After graduating from Yale law school in 2008, Pitts clerked for 9th Circuit Court Judge Stephen Reinhardt and subsequently spent most of his legal...

Mergers & Acquisitions

The provisional deadline for the U.K. Competition and Markets Authority’s (CMA) Phase 1 review is February 25, 2025. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s (ACCC) initial review concludes on March 20, 2025. Meanwhile, the FTC’s second request is over 7 months old and counting. If it appears that the CMA and ACCC are likely to clear...

Mergers & Acquisitions

JNJ/Intra-Cellular

Executive Summary Since our initial update, we have gotten feedback from more physicians (who are users of most of the drugs in question and not involved in related clinical trials) suggesting that the proposed merger is unlikely to diminish competition to any substantial degree in the drug markets where the companies have overlapping indications....