Anti-Competitive, FTC Act, Acquisition Agreements

Illinois and Minnesota AGs Join FTC’s Lawsuit Against Private Equity Firm

Troutman Pepper Locke on 5/9/2025

Illinois Attorney General (AG) Kwame Raoul and Minnesota AG Keith Ellison have joined the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in a lawsuit to block the acquisition of Surmodics Inc. by GTCR BC Holdings LLC, two major manufacturers...more

PE Firm Escapes FTC’s Challenge to Texas Anesthesiology Roll-Up

Troutman Pepper Locke on 6/12/2024

A Texas federal court dismissed the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) lawsuit against private equity (PE) owner, Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe (Welsh Carson), while allowing to proceed the agency’s challenge against U.S....more

Private Equity Roll-Ups: Court Dismisses Welsh Carson from Roll-Up Litigation

Mayer Brown on 5/30/2024

The Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) push against private equity roll-ups has hit a snag. On May 14, 2024, US District Judge Kenneth Hoyt of the Southern District of Texas granted a motion to dismiss filed by Welsh, Carson,...more

FTC Enforcement Action Limits Noncompetition Agreements in “Sale of Business” Transactions

Proskauer - Law and the Workplace on 7/6/2022

On July 9, 2021, President Biden issued an Executive Order, in which he described the nation’s antitrust laws as the “first line of defense against the monopolization of the American economy” and encouraged the Federal Trade...more

The Administrative State Under Attack: Potentially Far Reaching Implications of Supreme Court’s Decision to Hear Challenge to FTC...

Proskauer - Minding Your Business on 2/7/2022

In 1984, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that courts must defer to an administrative agency’s reasonable interpretation of an ambiguous statute. But last year, the Supreme Court stripped the FTC of its ability to seek...more

Anti-Competitive › FTC Act › Acquisition Agreements

Illinois and Minnesota AGs Join FTC’s Lawsuit Against Private Equity Firm

PE Firm Escapes FTC’s Challenge to Texas Anesthesiology Roll-Up

Private Equity Roll-Ups: Court Dismisses Welsh Carson from Roll-Up Litigation

FTC Enforcement Action Limits Noncompetition Agreements in “Sale of Business” Transactions

The Administrative State Under Attack: Potentially Far Reaching Implications of Supreme Court’s Decision to Hear Challenge to FTC...

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