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[ABA Antitrust Daily Digest June 3, 2026]
EU Court Backs Regulators, Hands Vivendi Defeat in Lagardere Antitrust Case

(Reuters) Vivendi lost its fight against EU antitrust regulators on Wednesday as Europe's second-highest court agreed that ​they have the power to demand information related to ​the French publisher's 2023 Lagardere acquisition. Vivendi had challenged ⁠EU Commission' powers to request documents, saying the demands ​could expose journalists' sources and breach their privacy ​rights and source-protection rules.
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[ABA Antitrust Daily Digest June 3, 2026]
Google Ordered to Make Changes to AI Search Summaries by UK

(Bloomberg) Alphabet Inc.’s Google must make changes to its artificial intelligence generated search summaries after the UK’s antitrust watchdog ordered it to give publishers more control over how their content is used. The Competition and Markets Authority said that the “world first” move against Google would give publishers the chance to block their content from being used to power AI features in search. “This will put publishers, like news organizations, in a stronger position to negotiate content deals with Google,” the CMA said on Wednesday.
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[ABA Antitrust Daily Digest June 3, 2026]
Apple Agrees to Submit India Financials in Long-Pending Antitrust Case

(Reuters) Apple has agreed to submit the financials of its India business to the country's antitrust body as part of an investigation that found the U.S. firm abused its market position, taking the long-delayed case a step closer to a potential penalty decision, an agency order shows.
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[ABA Antitrust Daily Digest June 3, 2026]
India Antitrust Body Targets Beauty Pageants with Scrutiny of Mrs India Inc

(Reuters) India's antitrust body is investigating Mrs. India Inc, an organiser of a beauty pageant for married women that sends winners to global events, accusing it of abusing its position and setting burdensome contract terms for participants.
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[ABA Antitrust Daily Digest June 3, 2026]
Australia Approves Ampol's $789 Million Acquisition of EG Australia

(Reuters) Australia's competition watchdog on Wednesday approved Ampol's A$1.1 billion ($789.47 million) acquisition of EG Australia, the local ​arm of Britain's EG Group, subject to the ‌divestment of 41 Ampol retail fuel sites.
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[ABA Antitrust Daily Digest June 2, 2026]
Microsoft Could Be the Next Big Tech Antitrust Target

(The Verge) Over the past several years, Microsoft has largely managed to withstand populist calls to break up Big Tech while peers faced sweeping lawsuits. But a probe by the Federal Trade Commission suggests that grace period could be nearing an end. Earlier this year, Bloomberg outlined the contents of civil investigative demands (CIDs) — similar to a subpoena — the FTC sent to at least half a dozen companies that compete with Microsoft. New details obtained by The Verge further reveal the FTC’s interests, suggesting the agency is particularly concerned with potentially exclusionary behavior around Microsoft’s Azure cloud services, as well as its role in the AI industry.
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[ABA Antitrust Daily Digest June 2, 2026]
Polish Competition Watchdog Investigates Retailer Dino Over Alleged No-Poach Agreement

(Reuters) Poland's competition watchdog UOKiK has opened an investigation into supermarket chain ​Dino Polska and four transport companies ‌over suspected collusion that may have restricted truck drivers from switching employers, it said on ​Tuesday. The case is the latest ​in a series of no-poach investigations ⁠by UOKiK targeting Polish retail chains ​and their logistics contractors, following proceedings against ​Jeronimo Martins' Biedronka chain and a preliminary inquiry into Lidl's practices.
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[ABA Antitrust Daily Digest June 2, 2026]
Paramount Seeks EU Approval for Warner Bros Acquisition

(Reuters) Paramount Skydance Corp sought EU antitrust approval on Tuesday to buy Warner Bros Discovery, a European Commission filing showed. The Commission, which acts as the EU's competition enforcer, set a July 7 deadline for its decision.
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[ABA Antitrust Daily Digest June 1, 2026]
Prosus given more time to comply with Delivery Hero stake sale, EU regulators say

(Reuters) Dutch technology investor Prosus has been given more time to comply with its pledge to sell down its stake in Delivery Hero, EU antitrust regulators said on Monday. Prosus secured EU antitrust approval to buy Just Eat Takeaway last year after agreeing to reduce its 27.4% stake in Delivery Hero to below a specified very low percentage within 12 months.
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[ABA Antitrust Daily Digest June 1, 2026]
Adcock Faces Possible Antitrust Charges in South Africa

(Bloomberg) South Africa’s antitrust watchdog has accused pharmaceutical company Adcock Ingram Holdings Ltd. of profiteering from the Covid-19 pandemic, according to people familiar with the matter. The Competition Commission’s allegations against the company include that it failed to pass on significant pricing benefits and discounts provided by medical-technology company Baxter International Inc. for vital dialysis machines and related drugs during the health crisis, said the people who asked not to be identified as the information isn’t public.
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[ABA Antitrust Daily Digest June 1, 2026]
Otter Tail Agrees to Pay $73.5 Million in Antitrust Settlements

(Bloomberg) Otter Tail reached settlements and agreed to pay $73.5 million to resolve two of three class actions in the PVC Pipe Antitrust Litigation pending in the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
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[ABA Antitrust Daily Digest May 29, 2026]
EU Clears Arla's DMK, DOC Buyout, Citing No Competition Concerns

(Reuters) The European Union on Thursday approved Arla Foods' acquisition of Germany's DMK and Dutch cooperative DOC without conditions, saying the deal would not harm competition in the European Economic Area. The European Commission said in a statement its investigation found the merger would not significantly reduce competition in raw milk procurement or in the supply of dairy products, including private-label goods sold to retailers across northern Europe.
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[ABA Antitrust Daily Digest May 29, 2026]
FTC Chair Ferguson Says Agency Probing Fertilizer Industry

(Bloomberg) The Federal Trade Commission recently launched an antitrust investigation into the rising costs of fertilizer in the US, the agency’s head said at an event in Texas on Thursday. “I’m announcing that, on my order, the commission some time ago commenced a major industrywide investigation into the precipitous rise of fertilizer prices in this country, which has affected so many of our nation’s farmers, including everyone in this room,” FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson said.
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[ABA Antitrust Daily Digest May 29, 2026]
FTC Chair Ferguson Says Agency Probing Fertilizer Industry

(Bloomberg) The Federal Trade Commission recently launched an antitrust investigation into the rising costs of fertilizer in the US, the agency’s head said at an event in Texas on Thursday. “I’m announcing that, on my order, the commission some time ago commenced a major industrywide investigation into the precipitous rise of fertilizer prices in this country, which has affected so many of our nation’s farmers, including everyone in this room,” FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson said.
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[ABA Antitrust Daily Digest May 28, 2026]
A Bipartisan Senate Bill is Coming to Stabilize College Sports. What’s in It, And Will It Work?

(The New York Times) Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) announced plans Wednesday for a bipartisan college sports bill, the latest development in a multi-year effort by college sports leaders to have Congress pass legislation attempting to stabilize the industry and curb the flood of legal challenges against the NCAA and power conferences.
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[ABA Antitrust Daily Digest May 28, 2026]
Bayer Sued for Allegedly Monopolizing US Market for GMO Corn Seeds
(Reuters) Bayer used illegal and anti-competitive practices to monopolize the U.S. market for genetically engineered corn seeds, reaping "hundreds of millions, if not billions, of ill-gotten dollars," according to a federal lawsuit that adds to legal troubles plaguing the Germany-based company. The lawsuit filed by Latham Quality, a family-owned seed company based in Iowa, targets the highly concentrated U.S. seed industry as President Donald Trump has said his administration will address risks from anti-competitive behavior in food supply chains.
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[ABA Antitrust Daily Digest May 28, 2026]
DOJ Antitrust Exits Feed Steady Hires by Private Firms

(Reuters) Private law firms are taking advantage of continued departures by attorneys from the U.S. Department of Justice’s antitrust division during President Donald ​Trump's second term. Since the February resignation of Gail Slater, Trump’s pick to ‌lead the DOJ's antitrust division, and the earlier departure of her deputy, Mark Hamer, who returned to Baker McKenzie, at least six attorneys have left the division, adding to the partnerships ​at O’Melveny & Myers, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and Winston & Strawn.
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[ABA Antitrust Daily Digest May 28, 2026]
Conservative Tech Critic Seen as Leading Candidate to Be DOJ Antitrust Chief

(CBS News) The leading candidate to oversee the Justice Department's antimonopoly enforcement has been a critic of the tech sector and is a government lawyer who led an effort to crack down on social media companies during President Trump's first term. Adam Candeub is being considered for assistant attorney general for the Antitrust Division, sources familiar with the matter told CBS News. He currently serves as the Federal Communications Commission's general counsel, working for Chairman Brendan Carr. The news was first reported by The Capitol Forum.
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[ABA Antitrust Daily Digest May 28, 2026]
https://t.co/wz4m5nVSUq’s $2.6 Billion Ceconomy Takeover Move Faces In-Depth EU Probe

(Reuters) The European Union opened an in-depth foreign subsidies probe into Chinese e-commerce giant https://t.co/wz4m5nVSUq’s $2.6 billion takeover of German retail company Ceconomy. The European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, said Thursday that the deal could potentially distort competition in the bloc’s internal market. It said that https://t.co/wz4m5nVSUq might have received foreign backing through preferential financing, tax incentives and grants, and that it is checking whether those potential foreign subsidies distorted the acquisition process by enabling https://t.co/wz4m5nVSUq to offer a high price and to support Ceconomy through its own technological and logistics abilities.
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[ABA Antitrust Daily Digest May 26, 2026]
Italy's Antitrust Authority Opens Probe into EasyJet Over Baggage Pricing

(Reuters) Italy's antitrust authority has opened an investigation into budget airline easyJet over alleged unfair business practices related to baggage charging, it said on Tuesday. The authority said the company's website and app advertised only the average price for checked baggage and sports equipment on round trips, but made bundled purchases the default option, even when customers did not want them.
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