In recent years, competition/antitrust enforcers around the world, including Canada, have taken a marked interest in private equity deals. As part of a broader global trend of tougher merger enforcement, private equity firms that have taken ownership positions (controlling or minority) in portfolio companies that are competitors have been subject to heightened scrutiny. The litigation and subsequent settlement in involving Canada’s Competition Bureau and Thoma Bravo is the most recent example.Continue Reading Private Equity in the Cross-Hairs of the Competition Regulator: Lessons Learned from Thoma Bravo