At long last, the Federal Trade Commission has approved a final rule to expand the pre-merger filling requirements under the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Act. Our Antitrust and Mergers & Acquisitions teams weigh in....more
Last week, each of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), and the Department of Justice Antitrust Division (DOJ) revised how they will review bank mergers. Our...more
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Our Antitrust and Mergers & Acquisitions Groups analyze this year’s Hart–Scott–Rodino Act adjustments and the Federal Trade Commission’s plans for a potential government shutdown....more
Our Antitrust Team examines finalized guidelines from the Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission that set forth more aggressive standards for horizontal and vertical M&A transactions....more
The first month of 2022 brought multiple significant developments impacting how the U.S. antitrust enforcement agencies review proposed transactions. These include not only the annual adjustments to the filing thresholds...more
Banking has evolved over the quarter century since the Department of Justice Antitrust Division released its 1995 Bank Merger Competitive Review Guidelines. Our Financial Services & Products and Antitrust groups explain what...more
Our Antitrust and Labor & Employment Groups note internal safeguards that retail executives, legal departments, and human resources managers should implement to reduce their antitrust risks as they face workforce issues...more
The recent document breach of unprecedented size (2.6 terabytes) from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca—known as “The Panama Papers”—poses various significant risks to corporations, private organizations, individual...more