13/11/2015 | ACCC commenced review under the Merger Process Guidelines. |
02/12/2015 | Former closing date for interested party submissions of 9 December 2015 delayed pending clarification about the transaction structure. |
07/12/2015 | ACCC received further information from the Consortium, closing date for submissions from interested parties updated to 18 December 2015 and proposed decision date updated to 18 February 2016. |
18/12/2015 | Closing date for submissions from interested parties. |
05/02/2016 | ACCC received further information from the Consortium, proposed decision date updated to 24 March 2016. |
23/02/2016 | Asciano announced a potential acquisition by a consortium including both Qube and Brookfield Infrastructure Partners. ACCC timeline suspended. |
30/03/2016 | Following an announcement by Asciano that it had entered into a new binding agreement with Brookfield, Qube and others, the ACCC discontinued this review. The ACCC commenced a review of the new joint proposal to acquire Asciano on 30 March 2016. |