Despite a record-setting year for M&A, 2015 has also been full of plenty of no's from U.S. antitrust officials: Staples agreed to buy its rival Office Depot in February for more than $6B, but regulators worried the tie-up would eliminate competition and sought to block the merger in December. Although General Electric decided to sell its appliances business to Electrolux for $3.3B in 2014, the Justice Department filed suit this summer, alleging the deal would result in higher kitchen appliance prices.
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