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Axinn congratulates its client Ball Corporation, the world's leading producer of sustainable aluminum packaging for global beverage and household brands, which today announced the successful completion of its $5.6B sale of its aerospace business to BAE Systems. As lead antitrust counsel to Ball, Axinn played a pivotal role in securing antitrust clearance less than six months after Ball and BAE announced the transaction.

Axinn partners Lisl Dunlop, Bradley Justus, and James Hunsberger and associates Aigerim Saudabayeva and Megan Walden wrote the introduction and the United States overview of Global Competition Review’s Market Review: Merger Control 2024. The overview, titled "United States: FTC and DOJ Double Down on Aggressive Antitrust Enforcement in Final Year of Biden Administration," covers the key developments and trends in the past year in merger control in the United States, including litigated merger challenges, the final 2023 Merger Guidelines, and the new HSR Rules.