CADE clears American Airlines’ stake acquisition in Azul subject to Merger Control Agreement

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    "url": "https://www.gov.br/cade/en/matters/news/cade-clears-american-airlines2019-stake-acquisition-in-azul-subject-to-merger-control-agreement",
    "title": "CADE clears American Airlines’ stake acquisition in Azul subject to Merger Control Agreement - www.gov.br",
    "excerpt": "Notícias AGREEMENT On 7 October, the Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE) cleared American Airlines’ acquisition of an approximately 8% minority stake in Azul S.A., subject to the signing of a Merger Control Agreement. The deal involves a USD 100 million investment as part of Azul’s financial restructuring under Chapter 11 of the US Bankruptcy Code. During the Tribunal’s review, further information was collected throughout the agreement negotiations, considering the transaction’s timing constraints and Azul’s financial restructuring. The applicants cooperated by providing information and helping develop the safeguards necessary for clearance. The case matters both for the airline industry and routes between Brazil and the United States. It also advances the competition law debate on minority shareholdings between competitors. The vote of Commissioner Camila Cabral Pires Alves, rapporteur of the case, considers effects related to changes to the companies’ economic interests, changes to governance rights, and access to competitively sensitive information. It also analyses whether reduced strategic uncertainty, aligned incentives, conditions that could sustain coordination, and networks of ownership and commercial ties could make it more likely that the markets concerned coordinate. “Minority shareholdings can affect competition in different ways,” said the case...",
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    "article_sentence": "The deal involves a USD 100 million investment as part of Azul’s financial restructuring under Chapter 11 of the US Bankruptcy Code.",
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