California Adopts Broad Premerger Notification Requirement

Following an onslaught of amendments and proposed changes to California’s Cartwright Act, California has once again made national news on the antitrust stage, this time targeting merger transactions. On February 10, 2026, Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law the California Uniform Antitrust Premerger Notification Act (“SB 25”), making California the third state to pass a broad premerger notification requirement.... By: Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider LLP