Amendment of the Small Merger Guidelines: What dealmakers need to know

Amendment of the Small Merger Guidelines: What dealmakers need to know

Shawn van der Meulen, Clare-Alice Vertue and Mavin Jonkers at Webber Wentzel. (Image: AI-enhanced) On 14 August 2026, the Competition Commission (Commission) gazetted draft amendments to its Guidelines on Small Merger Notification (Small Merger Guidelines) and invited interested parties and stakeholders to submit written comments within 30 days of publication. The only proposed change to…

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More time for public input on EC Amendment Bill

More time for public input on EC Amendment Bill

Khusela Sangoni-Diko, chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Communications and Digital Technologies. (Photograph by Lesley Moyo) Parliament’s oversight body on communications has extended the deadline for written submissions on the Electronic Communications Amendment Bill, giving the public another month to make their views known. In a statement, the portfolio committee says the new deadline for…

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Rimini Street Announces Debt Reduction and Amendment to its Credit Agreement

Rimini Street Announces Debt Reduction and Amendment to its Credit Agreement

Rimini Street, Inc. (Nasdaq: RMNI), a Russell 2000® Company, is a proven, trusted global provider of end-to-end, mission-critical enterprise software support, managed services and innovative Agentic AI ERP solutions, and is the leading third-party support provider for Oracle, SAP and VMware software. The Company has signed thousands of IT service contracts with Fortune Global 100,…

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Democrats blast FCC Chair Carr’s broadcast license threats as anti-First Amendment, ‘totalitarian’

Democrats blast FCC Chair Carr’s broadcast license threats as anti-First Amendment, ‘totalitarian’

Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr has drawn fierce backlash from Democratic lawmakers and free speech advocates for threatening to revoke broadcasters’ licenses over their coverage of the war in Iran. Carr on Saturday blasted broadcasters shortly after President Donald Trump called reports that Iran struck five U.S. tanker planes “fake news.”  In a post on X, Carr…

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