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Applying the Hypothetical Monopolist Test to Labor Markets: Lessons from FTC v. Kroger Co.

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FTC v. Kroger Co., an early test of the 2023 Merger Guidelines, focused on competition within labor markets as well as within product markets. In its decision, the court noted that it was “not aware of any standard economic...more

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FTC’s Proposed Budget Trims Staff

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A review of the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC’s) proposed budget for fiscal year 2026 may shed light on the FTC’s activities for the near future....more

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Trump administration’s merger remedies playbook begins to take shape

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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Department of Justice Antitrust Division (DOJ) recently announced a series of proposed merger settlement agreements that offer increased insight into how the agencies intend to use...more

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FTC Restricts Omnicom-IPG Merger to Prevent Viewpoint-Based Ad Bias

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The Federal Trade Commission approved Omnicom Group Inc.’s approximately $13.5 billion acquisition of The Interpublic Group of Companies, Inc. (IPG) but with strict conditions designed to prevent anticompetitive coordination...more

Mogin Law LLP

Mogin Law Digest | July 2025

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Dealmaking in the AI space, which started more than a decade ago, is brisk. We have ben covering it from the perspective of mergers and acquisitions, litigation, and legislation. Our acquisitions piece has an new interactive...more

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I Heart FTC: Proposed New York Bill Would Continue Biden FTC’s Antitrust Vision and Policies [Updated on July 16, 2025]

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After the FTC issued a replacement of the 2016 Antitrust Guidance for Human Resource Professionals on January 16, 2025, Commissioner – now Chair – Andrew N. Ferguson, joined by Commissioner Melissa Holyoak, punctuated his...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

U.S. Antitrust Agency Merger Roundup & Commentary: FTC Reverses Routine Use of Prior Approval Requirements in Merger Settlements,...

The June 2025 Quorum summarized recent actions by the Federal Trade Commission (“Commission” or “FTC”) and Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division (“DOJ”) indicating the Trump Administration’s rejection of the anti-merger...more

WilmerHale

AI and EU Merger Control

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Global investment in AI surged to approximately USD 252 billion in 2024, representing a thirteen-fold increase since 2014. As AI technologies become deeply embedded across key economic sectors such as finance, manufacturing,...more

Jenner & Block

Trump Administration Open to Divestiture Remedie

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The FTC and DOJ under President Trump have each recently approved divestiture remedies for potentially anticompetitive mergers, signaling a significant departure from the practice of the Biden administration, which viewed...more

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Charting the Path Back to the Good Life: Unblocking the Innovation Markets in 2025

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Silicon Valley is built on the promise of innovation, but for the better part of the past three years, the innovation economy has been in a coma. It all started with runaway inflation triggering the biggest hike in the price...more

Vinson & Elkins LLP

Prior Approval Remedies in M&A: Agency Policy and Practice

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For twenty-five years prior to the Biden Administration, FTC and DOJ consent agreements have had a singular goal: to remedy the anticompetitive effects of proposed transactions. Under former Chair Khan, however, the FTC...more

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Notes from the Multipolar Global Front: Navigating Multinational Antitrust Merger Reviews

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Recent developments have made navigating multinational antitrust merger reviews even more complex and replete with traps for the unwary. ...more

Proskauer Rose LLP

FTC Focus: Enforcers Study AI Innovation And Entrenchment

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In today's digital age, artificial intelligence has become a household utility. It is hard to imagine anyone who hasn't heard of ChatGPT — from the pundit lamenting the impending obsolesce of the human workforce; to the...more

Guidepost Solutions LLC

Hostile Or Not, Every Merger Brings A Battle

The merger landscape in the United States is shifting once again. After a period marked by stricter antitrust enforcement and skepticism toward merger transactions, recent developments suggest a renewed openness to structural...more

Vinson & Elkins LLP

First 100 Days of the New HSR Rules with Antitrust Partner Kara Kuritz

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Since the FTC’s updated HSR rules took effect, merger filings have become more complex, time-consuming, and risk-sensitive. In this brief video, Antitrust Partner Kara Kuritz explains how the new framework is changing the...more

Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider LLP

State by State, Pre-Merger Notifications Expand

In the wake of the recent major revisions to the federal merger review form, states are also getting into the act, creating broad new transaction notification requirements. Such notification requirements are not completely...more

A&O Shearman

The Trump era DOJ and FTC: a return to merger remedies

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This new stance, however, does not signal unchecked dealmaking for transacting parties. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Department of Justice (DOJ) are simultaneously emphasizing that robust, evidence-based enforcement...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Trump Antitrust Enforcers Stay the Course on Efficiencies

The Department of Justice, Antitrust Division (DOJ) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) (together the “Agencies”) submitted a note about efficiencies in merger control in connection with a June 17, 2025 Organisation for...more

McCarter & English, LLP

Merger Remedies Are Back on the Menu

The Trump administration’s recently announced settlements resolving the antitrust concerns in transactions mark a shift from the previous administration’s hostile rhetoric against settlements and remedies in merger cases. As...more

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Private Equity Investment in Health Care Providers and Technology – 2025 Midyear Outlook

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As of mid-2025, private equity (PE) investors remain intensely interested in health care services and technology companies despite higher borrowing costs, heightened regulatory scrutiny, and an increasingly complex state...more

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Seeing Around Corners: Where Disruption and Antitrust Meet

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“Disruption” is business-speak for innovative companies or technologies that challenge the status quo. Now more than ever, it seems like disruption is a constant theme in today’s business and regulatory environment,...more

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DOJ and FTC Leadership Discuss New Perspectives on Merger Enforcement

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In speeches delivered only a day apart during the first week of June, Bill Rinner, the new Deputy Assistant Attorney General in charge of merger enforcement at the Department of Justice (DOJ), and Commissioner Melissa Holyoak...more

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Antitrust and Competition Technology Update Q1 2025

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The first quarter of 2025 brought a surge of high-profile merger activity in the technology and artificial intelligence (AI) space, offering an early test of how antitrust regulators under the new Trump administration will...more

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Antitrust Scrutiny of Investors Under a New Administration

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Under the old guard of the prior administration, private equity was repeatedly under fire for alleged “flip and strip” tactics that were supposedly “at odds with competition.” Now, with new enforcers in place, a different...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Update: FTC Drops In-House Challenge of Microsoft’s Activision Acquisition After Ninth Circuit Affirms Denial of Preliminary...

After years of litigating its attempt to block Microsoft’s $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) recently dropped its in-house challenge following the Ninth Circuit’s decision affirming...more

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