Rising credit costs, fears of recession, geopolitical risk and tighter regulatory scrutiny combined to depress markets for IPOs and merger and acquisitions in 2023. Law360 takes a look back at the last 12 months in transactions.
Britain's antitrust authority said Wednesday that it has provisionally cleared the planned $61 billion acquisition by chipmaker Broadcom Inc. of VMware Inc., a cloud services provider, after finding the deal would not weaken competition in the supply of critical computer server products in the U.K.
The Competition and Markets Authority said on Thursday that it has escalated its probe into Adobe's planned $20 billion takeover of design collaboration company Figma after the companies failed to provide remedies to address competition concerns.
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Europe's competition authority said Tuesday that plans for Orange SA and MasMovil Ibercom SA to combine their operations in Spain could reduce competition in the supply of mobile and internet services, a move that would risk driving up prices for customers.