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A federal judge has dismissed a putative antitrust class action brought by Missouri beer consumers against InBev over the Belgian beer giant’s acquisition of Anheuser-Busch. The judge rejected the drinkers’ argument that InBev was a potential…

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Brazil’s antitrust regulator has slapped Brazilian brewer AmBev - Latin America’s biggest brewer and a key division of Anheuser-Busch InBev - with a record $186 million fine for anti-competitive practices that limited rivals’ access to markets.

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Belgium’s Economy Minister has asked the competition authority to investigate whether Anheuser-Busch InBev has abused its dominant position in delaying payments to suppliers, according to Reuters and the Wall Street Journal.

The world’s largest brewer, maker of Budweiser, Stella and Beck’s, plans to…

The Wall Street Journal’s Deal Journal blog has a fascinating take on a legal case that aimed to block InBev’s takeover of St. Louis-based Anheuser-Busch. Lager Heads looked into this case a while back, but it seems to have gone nowhere. From…

The Financial Times‘ Alphaville blog has an interesting piece this morning about how Chinese regulators might be presenting an unfriendly face towards mergers and acquisitions. The reason? In approving Belgian brewer InBev’s buyout of St. Louis-based Anheuser-Busch, the Chinese commerce ministry imposed…

InBev of Belgium said today that it had reached an agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice that will allow it to buy St. Louis-based Anheuser-Busch without raising antitrust concerns.

The Justice Department will require InBev to sell its Labatt USA subsidiary – along with a license to brew, market,…