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

WilmerHale on 7/8/2025

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

Seeing Around Corners: Where Disruption and Antitrust Meet

Mayer Brown on 6/18/2025

“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

Antitrust M&A Snapshot | Q1 2025

McDermott Will & Emery on 5/6/2025

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

Global labor market restrictions prompt antitrust challenges

A&O Shearman on 3/20/2025

Continuing the trend from 2023, 2024 saw an increase by regulators across the globe in activity in relation to labor markets, with new investigations being opened in all sectors of the economy, enforcement action, and updates...more

Antitrust in focus - November 2024

A&O Shearman on 12/4/2024

New U.S. merger control filing forms to take effect in February 2025 - Following publication in the Federal Register, the new Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) premerger notification forms will become effective on February 10, 2025....more

Antitrust in focus - July 2023

A&O Shearman on 8/2/2023

European Commission’s record gun-jumping fine on Illumina serves as warning to merging parties - The European Commission (EC) has imposed a fine of around EUR432 million on genomics company Illumina for closing its...more

Antitrust M&A Snapshot - Q3 2022

McDermott Will & Emery on 11/18/2022

Litigation Losses Pile Up for DOJ and FTC - The US Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) lost four merger challenges (Illumina/GRAIL, UnitedHealth/Change Healthcare, U.S. Sugar/Imperial Sugar and...more

[Webinar] Antitrust-year-in-review and a look forward to 2023 - November 30th, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST

Hogan Lovells on 11/17/2022

Join the Hogan Lovells Antitrust and Competition team on Wednesday, 30 November 2022 where we will look back at the major competition-related events of 2022 and what we can expect next year, including: 1. Major FTC and DOJ...more

2021 Antitrust Year in Review

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati on 2/11/2022

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati is pleased to present its 2021 Antitrust Year in Review. This report summarizes the most significant antitrust matters and developments of the past year. We examine policies and...more

INSIGHT: Abbvie Defeats Novel Antitrust Claims Against Humira Patent Estate—Lessons Learned

Haug Partners LLP on 7/20/2020

A federal district court recently dismissed a lawsuit against AbbVie and biosimilar manufacturers of adalimumab involving a novel antitrust claim against the Humira patent estate. Attorneys with Haug Partners LLP take an...more

Key Antitrust Enforcement Trends — 2019 Antitrust Annual Report

A&O Shearman on 7/24/2019

Welcome to the 2019 Shearman & Sterling Antitrust Annual Report. Our seventh edition focuses on the contrasting use by regulators of antitrust laws with respect to the FANGs, and how antitrust is being enforced in the U.S....more

2018 Antitrust Year in Review

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati on 1/24/2019

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati (WSGR) is pleased to present its 2018 Antitrust Year in Review, which summarizes the most significant antitrust matters and developments of the past year. In this report, we examine the Trump...more

Antitrust & Competition Newsletter - April 2015

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP on 5/1/2015

U.S. Supreme Court Holds That State Action Immunity Does Not Apply to State Boards If the Board Is Controlled by Active Market Participants - On Feb. 25, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court held, in a 6-3 decision, that a state...more

Antitrust and Competition Newsletter - October 2014 (Global)

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP on 10/16/2014

Recent U.S. Criticism of China’s Enforcement of Its Antitrust Laws Against Foreign Companies - For some time, many in the antitrust community have expressed concerns about how China is enforcing its antitrust laws...more

Insurance Antitrust Legal News: Volume 3, Number 5

Dickinson Wright on 9/3/2014

European Antitrust "Block Exemption" for Insurance Under Review: In the United States, the McCarran Ferguson Act (15 USC 1011-1015), enacted by Congress in 1945, provides the insurance industry with a limited exemption...more

Orrick's Antitrust and Competition Newsletter - June 2014 (Global)

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP on 6/11/2014

Opt-Out Antitrust Class Actions — A U.S. Perspective on the Consumer Rights Bill Pending in UK's Parliament - Will opt-out class actions proposed by the UK Parliament’s Consumer Rights Bill bring the dreaded U.S.-style...more

"Antitrust and Competition: Nonmerger Enforcement Activity Heats Up on Both Sides of the Atlantic"

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 1/30/2014

U.S. and European antitrust agencies had similar enforcement priorities last year, a trend we expect to continue in 2014. Nonmerger enforcement will continue to focus on intellectual property, financial services and...more

"Antitrust and Competition: Surveying Global M&A Enforcement Trends"

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 1/22/2014

US: Agencies Continue Aggressive Enforcement - Despite changes in leadership at the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Antitrust Division and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) (collectively, the Agencies) in 2013, the...more

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