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Cozen O'Connor

Washington and Colorado Enact Uniform Premerger Notification Laws: What Businesses Need to Know About The New Era in State AG...

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As of July 27, Washington State is now the first state to enact a uniform antitrust premerger notification law, and as of August 6, 2025, Colorado will be the second. Both new notification laws are similar, as they are...more

Ropes & Gray LLP

California’s Office of Health Care Affordability (“OHCA”) Initiates First Cost and Market Impact Review (“CMIR”)

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On June 6, 2025, the California Office of Health Care Affordability (“OHCA”) issued its first determination to conduct a Cost and Market Impact Review (“CMIR”) under its health care oversight law. This CMIR will involve...more

Husch Blackwell LLP

California-Based Healthcare Transaction Subjected to OHCA's First Cost and Market Review

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On June 23, 2025, California’s Office of Health Care Affordability (OHCA) issued a determination that a transaction submitted by Covenant Care California, LLC and its subsidiaries under the Material Change Transaction Notice...more

Pillsbury - Bid Protest Debrief

No Harm, No Foul: GAO Reaffirms That Prejudice Is Everything

In Kako’o Spectrum Healthcare Solutions, LLC, B-421127.5, et al., May 28, 2025, Kako’o Spectrum Healthcare Solutions (KSHS) protested the U.S. Marine Corps’ award to Cognito Systems, arguing that Cognito’s proposal exceeded...more

WilmerHale

Healthcare & Antitrust: What to Expect in the New Trump Administration

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Antitrust scrutiny of healthcare markets is nothing new. The Biden Administration and first Trump Administration focused antitrust enforcement efforts across the healthcare and life sciences industries. The newly installed...more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

Arkansas Law Takes Unprecedented Step to Prohibit PBM Ownership of Pharmacies

On April 16, 2025, Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed into law House Bill 1150, now Act 624 (the Act), making Arkansas the first state in the nation to prohibit pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) from acquiring or...more

Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider LLP

Axinn Associates at the Antitrust Spring Meeting: The Future of Healthcare Mergers

The Spring Meeting is the largest gathering of competition, consumer protection, and data privacy profes­sionals globally, with lawyers, academics, economists, enforcers, journalists, and students from around the world....more

DLA Piper

Juntos - Março de 2025

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Agência antitruste inicia ação contra prestadores de serviços de saúde. A autoridade antitruste da Argentina, a Comissão Nacional de Defesa da Concorrência (Comisión Nacional de Defensa de la Competencia, CNDC), iniciou uma...more

DLA Piper

Juntos - Marzo 2025

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Agencia antimonopolio toma acción contra proveedores de servicios médicos. El organismo antimonopolio de Argentina, la Comisión Nacional de Defensa de la Competencia (CNDC), está investigando a varias organizaciones de la...more

DLA Piper

Juntos - March 2025

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Antitrust agency brings action against health service providers. Argentina’s antitrust enforcer, the National Commission for Competition Defense (CNDC), has opened an investigation of several health services organizations...more

Rivkin Radler LLP

NYS Reinforces Its Scrutiny Over Healthcare Transactions

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We recently discussed increasing state regulation of healthcare mergers and acquisitions in the face of the current Administration’s clear policy of federal deregulation. We noted that 15 states had implemented oversight laws...more

King & Spalding

NY Department of Health Issues Clarifying FAQs on Healthcare Transaction Notice Law

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Earlier this month, the New York State Department of Health (DOH) released its first formal guidance under Public Health Law (PHL) Article 45-A, the state’s recently enacted healthcare transaction notice law. Issued in the...more

Mayer Brown

Europe Daily News, 19 March 2025

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COMPETITION - Judgment of the Court of 19 March 2025 in Case T-142/23, Ivo Swenters Vs. European Commission Re: Competition - Agreements, decisions and concerted practices - Abuse of a dominant position - Market for the...more

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Embrace Tradition, Reject Modernity? Recent FTC and DOJ Deal Challenges Show Preference for Traditional Antitrust Theories of Harm

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Both the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Department of Justice (DOJ) Antitrust Division have now brought cases challenging deals under President Trump’s administration. In many respects, the theories of harm alleged in...more

Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider LLP

GTCR / Surmodics: Four Key Takeaways for M&A Antitrust from the First FTC Merger Challenge Under Trump

In the FTC’s first merger challenge of the new administration, the FTC voted 4-0 last week to challenge the proposed acquisition of Surmodics by private equity firm GTCR BC Holdings (“GTCR”). As the Trump administration’s...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Colorado: Proposed Expanded Medical Care Transaction Oversight - What Providers and Investors Need to Know

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On March 5, 2025, two Senators and one Representative introduced SB 25-198 (the Bill), designed to enhance transparency in transactions involving health care entities. The Bill seeks to impose notification and reporting...more

Mandelbaum Barrett PC

State of the Veterinary M&A Market in 2025

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The veterinary industry has experienced significant transformations over the past few years, particularly in the realm of mergers and acquisitions (M&A). As we look at the state of the market in 2025, it is crucial to analyze...more

McCarter & English, LLP

Healthcare Consolidation and Private Equity: Public Input on Antitrust Healthcare Regulations

The Department of Justice Antitrust Division (DOJ), the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) (together the Agencies) launched a cross-government agency request for information...more

Stevens & Lee

Higher Prices, Reduced Access, Lower Quality Care: HHS, FTC, DOJ Report Harshly Criticizes Provider Consolidation and Private...

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In March 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) (collectively, Agencies) issued a request for information (RFI) seeking public comment...more

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Federal Agencies Express Concerns About Health Care Market Consolidation and Role of Private Equity

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On January 15, 2025, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Department of Justice (DOJ), and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a joint report continuing their collaborative initiative to address...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Looking Back and Looking Forward: Healthcare Antitrust in a New Administration: What Stays the Same and What Changes?

President Trump was sworn into office on Monday, promising swift action on several fronts. There is already a new Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) Chair, Andrew Ferguson, with former FTC Chair Lina Khan expected to step down...more

Stevens & Lee

FTC Settlement Proposes Consent Order to Monitor Private Equity Firm Welsh Carson’s Acquisitions Plans

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We previously reported on the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) lawsuit against U.S. Anesthesia Partners (USAP) and the private equity firm Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe (Welsh Carson). In the lawsuit, the FTC alleges that...more

A&O Shearman

Antitrust in focus - November 2024

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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

McDermott Will & Emery

Bulletin Concurrence XII - Paris │Avril ● Mai ● Juin ● Juillet ● Aout 2024

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1. CONTENTIEUX - NOUVEAU RISQUE DE REMISE EN CAUSE À POSTERIORI D’OPÉRATIONS NON NOTIFIABLES - Par une décision du 2 mai 2024, l’Autorité de la concurrence (ci-après l’ « Autorité ») a fait pour la première fois...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

FTC Finalizes Changes to Premerger Notification Form: What It Means for Healthcare Transactions

At long last, we have a rule. On October 10, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) unanimously issued a final rule updating the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act (HSR Act) premerger notification process (the Final Rule). The Final...more

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