Facing Hurdles: Tech, Healthcare, And Consumer Sector Deals Under Intense Antitrust Scrutiny

Tech sector M&A remains in focus, although a more permissive merger control environment is leading to fewer frustrated deals and more conditional clearances. Transactions impacting areas of direct consumer spend (or “pocketbook” issues) are also an expanding target for antitrust intervention, covering healthcare, food, energy, telecoms, and transport.... By: A&O Shearman