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Turning Crisis into Strategy: Contracts, projects and disputes at a global chokepoint
Competition authorities are increasingly rigorous and sophisticated in their review of transactions. Effective merger control requires careful legal strategy, early planning, and cross-border coordination. Hogan Lovells offers clients expert advice on navigating merger filings, investigations, and remedies across jurisdictions. Whether your deal triggers review thresholds in the EU, the U.K., the U.S., or emerging markets, we help anticipate regulatory objections, design mitigation strategies, and defend approval applications.
Our team supports clients of all sizes – corporates, private equity, financial institutions – through mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, and other transactions that implicate competition law. With Hogan Lovells, you gain depth of experience in managing evolving enforcement trends with precision and commercial awareness.
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Represented UnitedHealth Group in DOJ challenge to $13 billion acquisition of Change Healthcare; awarded Merger Control Matter of the Year by Global Competition Review.
Represented ASSA ABLOY in DOJ challenge to $4 billion acquisition of HHI division of Spectrum Brands; first DOJ consent decree in Biden administration.
Represented Within Unlimited in its acquisition by Meta Platforms Inc.
Represented Kustomer Inc., in its acquisition by Meta Platforms Inc.
Represented IBM in its acquisition of Red Hat.
Represented Albert Einstein Medical Center in FTC challenge to merger with Thomas Jefferson University; first FTC hospital merger trial loss in decades.
Represented ITA Software in its acquisition by Google.
Represented AdMob in its acquisition by Google.
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