Sony group wins U.S. approval to buy EMI music publishing

The Federal Trade Commission has approved a Sony-led consortium's purchase of EMI Music Publishing, without having to make any divestitures, the FTC said on Friday. U.S. antitrust regulators gave the nod ...

A consortium led by Sony/ATV, a joint venture between Sony Corp. and the Michael Jackson estate, says it is buying the music copyright division of EMI Group Ltd., for $2.2 billion.Earlier Friday, Vivendi ...

Reuters - Vivendi's Universal Music Group is set to buy EMI's recorded-music unit for $1.9 billion, while a group led by Sony's music division will buy the publishing operation of the British music company for $2.2 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - EU antitrust regulators cleared Universal Music Group to buy British record company EMI's recorded music unit for $1.9 billion on Friday after the Vivendi-owned company promised to sell some of EMI's most valuable record labels. The European Commission said in a statement that the asset sales, ranging from EMI's Parlophone label to Chrysalis, Mute, EMI Classics and also Universal labels such as Sanctuary and Co-op Music Ltd, allayed its concerns about the combined group's market power. ...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Vivendi's Universal Music Group clinched EU regulatory approval on Friday to buy EMI's recorded music unit for $1.9 billion after agreeing to sell record labels that bring in nearly a third of the British company's revenues.

NEW YORK (AP) -- The Federal Trade Commission says it has cleared a deal by Sony and other investors to buy part of the British music company EMI Group Ltd....

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Johnson & Johnson has won U.S. antitrust approval to buy Swiss medical device company Synthes Inc with conditions, the Federal Trade Commission said on Monday. Johnson & Johnson will sell its system for surgically treating serious wrist fractures and other assets related to treating traumatic injuries to Biomet Inc , the FTC said. The deal, valued at about $21 billion, was approved by European antitrust officials on April 19. (Reporting By Diane Bartz; Editing by Gary Hill)

European antitrust regulators are expected to approve a plan by a Sony-led investor group to buy EMI Group's music-publishing division for $2.2 billion, according to people familiar with the situation.