Resumen de Americas: : US regulators, take note.

• The article discusses issues relating to the acquisitions of North American companies by Asian firms in 2013. Topics explored include the perceived implications of these takeovers for U.S. mergers and acquisitions (MA) market regulations, the response of concerned governments to the takeovers, and the feedback expressed by the telecommunications sector to the takeover of telecommunications services provider Sprint by Japanese firm SoftBank.