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Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

New FTC Consent Order Against Health Care-Focused Private Equity Firm Has Antitrust Implications

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Last week, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) approved a final consent order with a private equity firm focused on health care and technology to resolve allegations of anticompetitive practices in two anesthesiology markets...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

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

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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

Jenner & Block

Client Alert: FTC Challenges Medical Device Coating Transaction

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On March 7, 2025, the FTC filed a complaint in federal court seeking to block GTCR BC Holdings, LLC, a Chicago private equity firm, from acquiring Surmodics, Inc. The FTC alleges that Surmodics is the leading provider of a...more

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FTC Takes Another Shot at Private Equity Roll-Ups

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At the end of the Biden administration, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a settlement with private equity firm Welsh, Carson, Anderson, and Stowe, and several of its affiliates (Welsh Carson), resolving what the...more

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FTC’s Aggressive Focus on PE Blunted by Recent Court Decision

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Private Equity (PE) has been a popular and frequent target of the Biden Administration’s recent antitrust enforcement efforts. Earlier this year, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Department of Justice Antitrust Division...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Court Dismisses “Roll-Up” Lawsuit against Private Equity Firm in Blow to FTC

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On May 13, a federal district court in Texas dismissed private equity firm Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe (Welsh Carson) from an antitrust lawsuit filed by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The lawsuit, which was...more

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