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Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

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

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

McDermott Will & Emery

Antitrust M&A Snapshot | Q1 2025

JANUARY – MARCH 2025: KEY THEMES AND TAKEAWAYS - UNITED STATES - FTC Loses Vertical Challenge to Tempur Sealy/Mattress Firm On July 2, 2024, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filed suit in federal court seeking to block...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

A Look At UK, EU And US Cartel Enforcement Trends

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Demonstrating both increased cross-border collaboration and the adoption of novel theories of cartel violations, the European Commission and the U.K. Competition and Markets Authority, together with the U.S. competition...more

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Trends and Enforcement Priorities from the 2024 ABA Antitrust Spring Meeting

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Last week, a Mayer Brown team joined over 4,000 lawyers from around the globe—including top enforcers from the US Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”), Department of Justice (“DOJ”), and the European Union (“EU”)—to discuss new...more

McDermott Will & Emery

DOJ Signals Heightened Scrutiny on Information Exchanges and Competitor Collaborations

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On February 3, 2023, the US Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Antitrust Division announced the withdrawal of three policy statements related to antitrust enforcement in healthcare. Although the withdrawn statements focus on...more

Lathrop GPM

A New Vacuum in Antitrust? DOJ Withdraws Longstanding Health Care Enforcement Statements

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With little warning the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice announced on February 3 the withdrawal of three critical pieces of guidance for the health care industry...more

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Clients Should Review Their Corporate Governance Compliance Guidelines in Light of Threatened Enforcement Action Against...

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In the government’s ongoing efforts to increase antitrust enforcement, Assistant Attorney General (“AAG”) Jonathan Kanter, head of the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division (“DOJ”), opened up another front for clients to...more

The Volkov Law Group

The New “Era” of Antitrust Enforcement (Part I of III)

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There is no question but we are in the “perfect storm” for antitrust enforcement.  Antitrust enforcement is fast-becoming an area of rare “bipartisanship.”  Republicans resent the growing power and influence of technology and...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

FTC and DOJ Announce Project to Develop Progressive Merger Guidelines

On January 18, 2022, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) and the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division (“DOJ”) (together, the “Agencies”) jointly announced plans to “review,” “modernize” and “strengthen” horizontal merger...more

Hogan Lovells

Chinese antitrust – the big reset

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Chinese antitrust is going through what are likely the most important changes since its inception: an amendment of the Anti-Monopoly Law and the establishment of a new enforcement body. ...more

Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP

Commissioner of Competition Urges Reboot of Canadian Competition Law

In his annual address to Canada’s competition bar last week, the Commissioner of Competition, Matthew Boswell, offered a full-throated defence of vigorous competition law enforcement as a key driver of Canada’s post-pandemic...more

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