Sep 25, 2023 Private Equity in the Antitrust Spotlight By Angela Landry Emily Strickland On September 21, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) filed a suit against a private equity firm and one of its portfolio companies,...
Aug 28, 2023 Latest Round of Section 8 Enforcement Demonstrates Agency Efforts to Expand Statute’s Boundaries By Bruce McCulloch Justin Stewart-Teitelbaum Meytal McCoy Charles Ramsey +1 more... Show less The latest enforcement effort involving Section 8 of the Clayton Act, which prohibits interlocking directorates, “put[s] market...
Jul 20, 2023 Proposed New U.S. Merger Guidelines: Making Old Ideas New Again By Bruce McCulloch Andrew Ewalt Jamillia Ferris Mary Lehner Jennifer Mellott Meghan Rissmiller Jan Rybnicek Justin Stewart-Teitelbaum Laura Onken Timothy Swartz +7 more... Show less The U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division (“DOJ”) and Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) yesterday released a draft of revised...
Jul 03, 2023 Proposed Update to U.S. HSR Merger Clearance Process Risks Extended Review Timelines By Bruce McCulloch Jamillia Ferris Mary Lehner Meytal McCoy Jennifer Mellott Charles Ramsey Meghan Rissmiller Jan Rybnicek Justin Stewart-Teitelbaum +6 more... Show less On June 27, 2023, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced the first significant overhaul to the HSR Act filing form (HSR...
May 30, 2023 Key Takeaways from the 21st Annual Biomed Israel Conference By Ben Cohen The 21st annual Biomed Israel Conference, attended by thousands of industry leaders from 45 countries, presented a juxtaposition of...
Mar 10, 2023 You’ve been warned – FTC’s first merger closing statement in over three years sends a reminder to companies that antitrust is only one consideration By Christine Lyon Jamillia Ferris Meghan Rissmiller Rod Carlton Daniel Wylde Rikki Haria +3 more... Show less In a rare move on February 27, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued its first statement akin to a closing statement since...
Jan 09, 2023 The FTC’s New Year’s Resolution: Out with Post-Employment Non-Competes By Nicole Foster Brandon Gantus Lori Goodman Andrew Herman Bruce McCulloch Jan Rybnicek Angela Landry Morgan Marmaro Kara King +6 more... Show less The US Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) is following through on its commitment to more closely police competition issues in labor...
Nov 30, 2022 Push It To The Limit: The US Merger Agencies Before the Courts in 2022 By Jamillia Ferris Meghan Rissmiller Tom Morgan Lauren Vaca +1 more... Show less 2022 has been a busy year for the US antitrust agencies, with a number of litigated cases bringing their heightened enforcement policies...
Nov 16, 2022 FTC Seeks To Revive Prohibitions Against “Unfair” Competition By Jan Rybnicek Angela Landry Kara Reid Kara King +1 more... Show less On November 10, 2022, the Democratic commissioners at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) voted out a new policy statement outlining how...
Nov 14, 2022 DOJ Adds Section 1 Claim in M&A Context By Justin Stewart-Teitelbaum Angela Landry Kara Reid Donna Faye Imadi +1 more... Show less On June 29, the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division (DOJ) challenged Booz Allen Hamilton’s (Booz Allen’s) $440 million dollar...
Nov 14, 2022 With Zito, DOJ Brings First Criminal Antitrust Charges Under Section 2 in Decades – Has Anything Changed? By Julie Elmer Angela Landry Morgan Marmaro Andrew Henderson LB McCaskey +2 more... Show less On October 31, 2022, the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) secured a guilty plea in its first criminal case under Section 2 of the...
Nov 10, 2022 At Axon Oral Argument, Supreme Court Weighs Whether to Open FTC to More Attacks By Andrew Ewalt LB McCaskey On Monday, November 7, 2022, two opposite trends collided at the Supreme Court oral argument in Axon Enterprise, Inc. v. Federal Trade...