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Morrison & Foerster LLP

Sights and Sounds from the Antitrust Section’s 2025 Spring Meeting

Antitrust experts from across the globe convened in Washington, D.C. on April 2–4, 2025 to discuss new enforcement policies and share updates on current issues in antitrust. We provide the key highlights from numerous panels...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Antitrust Heads Offer Enforcement Insights to Legal Industry, Sidestepping Traditional ABA Gathering

Breaking from longstanding tradition, the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division (DOJ) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) both recently withdrew their attendance and speakership from the American Bar Association...more

McGuireWoods LLP

Trump’s DOJ Antitrust Head Gets to Work

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On March 11, 2025, the U.S. Senate confirmed Gail Slater to lead the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division. Slater received bipartisan support in her confirmation....more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Trump 2.0 Antitrust Policy Is Likely To Be More Predictable but Not Lax

Key Points - Strong antitrust enforcement is expected to continue, but without the use of the novel and untested legal theories that defined the Biden administration approach. - Regulators are likely to continue to focus...more

Hogan Lovells

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

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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

Farella Braun + Martel LLP

[Webinar] Technology Platforms and Developments in Antitrust Law - November 2nd, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm PT

Technology platforms are digital marketplaces where software developers, competing companies, and end users all come to build and buy software tools, store data, or integrate software from different providers to make it...more

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Just like 2021, the DOJ and FTC will remain active in the Restrictive Covenant Space

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2021 saw significant activity by both the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) and Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) in 2021. The DOJ, for example, finally followed through on its 2016 warning/threat to investigate and potentially...more

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Senator Josh Hawley Joins Growing Number in Congress Proposing Sweeping Antitrust Reform Legislation

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Sen. Hawley's "Trust-Busting for the Twenty-First Century Act," introduced on April 12, 2021, takes aim at "Big Tech, Big Banks, Big Telecom, and Big Pharma" by proposing to curb mergers and acquisitions by large corporations...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Antitrust Enforcement Centers on Technology Industry

Antitrust enforcers in the United States and European Union (EU) remained active in 2019, and recent developments at the Department of Justice (DOJ), Federal Trade Commission (FTC), state attorneys general (AG) offices and EU...more

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Does your deal have a Section 8 Antitrust problem?

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The renewed interest in taking a fresh look at how antitrust can apply to tech has generated any number of "Hipster Antitrust" theories of harm. With the US Federal Trade Commission announcing a new Tech Task Force this...more

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FTC v. Qualcomm

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On May 21, 2019, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California found that Qualcomm violated the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Act, in an antitrust decision significant to licensing...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

Deep Dive on Deep Learning: FTC Considers Artificial Intelligence

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Seventh Hearing on Competition and Consumer Protection considers ethical, practical, and legal dimensions of artificial intelligence and machine learning. On November 13 and 14, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) held the...more

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Blog: The Antitrust Review of the Americas 2019: A Global Competition Review Special Report: United States: Technology Mergers

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High-tech antitrust enforcement is at the top of the Trump administration antitrust enforcement agenda, including challenges to mergers affecting technology platforms and the pharma and life sciences industries. Statements by...more

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New Lawsuits Challenge Qualcomm’s Allegedly Anticompetitive Patent Practices

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The Federal Trade Commission filed suit last week in federal court against Qualcomm, Inc., following its investigation launched in September 2014. The FTC alleges that the semiconductor manufacturer illegally maintained a...more

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Six Tips to Help HR Professionals Avoid Criminal Antitrust Liability Under New DOJ/FTC Guidance

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On October 20, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) jointly issued antitrust guidance for human resources professionals. The agencies also released a list of high-level red flags for the...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Antitrust Agencies Issue Guidance To HR Professionals Regarding Hiring and Compensation Decisions

The U.S. Antitrust Agencies (the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission) recently issued a document entitled “Antitrust Guidance For Human Resource Professionals” intended to alert HR...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

"Wage-Fixing, No-Poaching Agreements to Be Prosecuted Criminally Under New Guidance"

On October 20, 2016, the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) jointly issued new guidance designed to help human resources professionals and their companies understand...more

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