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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

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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Antitrust Scrutiny of Private Equity: On the Horizon or in the Rearview Mirror?

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What the final days of the Biden administration portend for private equity enforcement in Trump 2.0 - During the final days of the Biden administration, the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Shaping Consumer Protection: What to Expect from Incoming Chairman Ferguson's FTC

On December 10, 2024, President-elect Trump named FTC Commissioner Andrew Ferguson as next Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), replacing Chair Lina Khan on January 20, 2025. As a Senate-approved sitting...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Old-Fashioned Approach Still Wins It for the FTC in Luxury Goods Merger Challenge

On October 24, 2024, to the surprise of many legal observers and fashion industry executives, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) secured a preliminary injunction blocking a proposed $8.5 billion deal between Tapestry and...more

DLA Piper

Juntos - September 2024

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Welcome to Juntos, our bulletin that explores antitrust and competition developments across US-Latin America. In this issue, we look at key headlines from throughout 2024....more

Goodwin

Google is an Illegal Monopoly, Federal Court Rules

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Following a nine-week bench trial starting in September 2023 and closing arguments in May 2024, District of Columbia district court judge Amit Mehta ruled on August 5, 2024, that Google illegally maintained its monopoly in...more

K&L Gates LLP

Judge Dismisses FTC Case Against Welsh Carson but Enforcement Focus on Private Equity in Health Care Continues

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On 13 May, a federal district court judge dismissed the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) antitrust case against private equity firm Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe and affiliated entities (Welsh Carson). This matter has been...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

FTC is Targeting Private Equity Acquisitions in Healthcare - Is Your Industry Next?

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On March 5, the FTC convened a workshop with regulators, academics and stakeholders to discuss the impact of private equity in the healthcare market. The workshop reflects the FTC and DOJ Antitrust Division’s recent focus on...more

Paul Hastings LLP

FTC and DOJ Solidify Expanded Merger Enforcement in Finalized Merger Guidelines

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On December 18, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) and the Department of Justice Antitrust Division (“DOJ”) released final revisions to the Merger Guidelines (the “2023 Merger Guidelines”) that frame the agencies’...more

Epstein Becker & Green

FTC and DOL Sign MOU for Cooperation

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In late September, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) announced a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). In the MOU, the two agencies expressed their “good-faith intentions” to work together...more

Stevens & Lee

FTC and DOJ Issue Proposed Merger Guidelines Updates

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Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) and the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) (the “Agencies”) jointly issued a draft update of their Merger Guidelines intended to describe and guide the Agencies’ review of...more

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FTC Reinstates Prior Approval Requirement For Companies With Previous Antitrust Violations

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The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”), in a 3-2 vote, rescinded a 1995 policy statement that had hindered the FTC’s ability to address anticompetitive mergers and acquisitions. Before the 1995 policy statement, the FTC’s...more

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New Antitrust Bills Highlight Continued Big Tech Scrutiny

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2021 has been a busy year for antitrust legislation. On February 4, 2021, Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and four other senators introduced the Competition and Antitrust Law Enforcement Act of 2021 (“Klobuchar Bill”)....more

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Public Comment Period on Pharmaceutical Mergers Opens and Exposes Dueling Philosophies Among FTC Commissioners

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The Multilateral Pharmaceutical Merger Task Force, a working group formed by the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”), the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice, State Attorneys General, and counterpart enforcement...more

Epstein Becker & Green

FTC Annual Review Shows Focus on Health Care

On March 25, 2021, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) released its 2020 Annual Highlights report. The report’s statistics show that 46 percent of the Bureau of Competition’s enforcement actions related to the health care...more

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U.S Senate Takes Aim at Big Tech

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Hard on the heels of the muckle of anti-trust filings against the huge U.S. technology companies in the past few months, the United States Senate indicates that clamping down on Big Tech will be a priority for the new...more

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Five Key Aspects of the Long-Awaited Revised Draft US Vertical Merger Guidelines

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On Friday, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) and the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) released joint draft Vertical Merger Guidelines (“Guidelines”) for public comment. This much anticipated...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

FTC and DOJ Release Draft Vertical Merger Guidelines

On January 10, 2020 the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released draft guidelines outlining the agencies' "analytical techniques, practices, and enforcement policy" for...more

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DOJ and FTC publish draft vertical merger guidelines

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On Friday, 10 January 2020 the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) (collectively, the agencies) announced the publication of draft vertical merger guidelines that describe how the agencies currently...more

Jones Day

Transaction "Designed" to Evade Merger Control Leads to U.S. and EU Penalties

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The Development: Antitrust authorities in the United States and European Union have assessed penalties and fines against Canon, and in the United States, Toshiba, for structuring a transaction to avoid premerger notification...more

Perkins Coie

Consummated Tech Mergers: Will the Government Seek to Unscramble the Eggs?

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There are increasing calls for the antitrust enforcement agencies to review the effects of past acquisitions in the tech sector. Senator Elizabeth Warren has pledged to appoint enforcers committed to reversing such mergers....more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

FTC Tech Task Force: Temporary Scrutiny or Permanent Focus?

The Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) Bureau of Competition has established a task force dedicated to monitoring competition in U.S. technology markets and taking enforcement actions as warranted. While the remit of the task...more

McDermott Will & Emery

THE LATEST: FTC’s New “Technology Task Force” Has Broad Mandate Including Review of Consummated Transactions

The US Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) Bureau of Competition announced the launch of a new Technology Task Force that will investigate anticompetitive conduct, review past transactions, as well as contribute to pending...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

FTC Announces Creation of Technology Task Force to Oversee Tech Markets

Coming on the heels of calls for greater government oversight of so-called "big tech," the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced on February 26, 2019, that it has created a Technology Task Force. According to the...more

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