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First 100 Days of the New HSR Rules with Antitrust Partner Kara Kuritz
Business Better Podcast Episode: Bridging Campuses: Legal Insights on Education Industry Consolidation – Mergers, Acquisitions, and Antitrust
Examining E-Discovery in Competition Law
In speeches delivered only a day apart during the first week of June, Bill Rinner, the new Deputy Assistant Attorney General in charge of merger enforcement at the Department of Justice (DOJ), and Commissioner Melissa Holyoak...more
The current leadership of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice (Antitrust Division or DOJ) (collectively, “antitrust agencies”) have signaled an intention to reject the...more
After President Trump’s election for a second term, those predicting where federal antitrust enforcement was headed had to contend with internal tensions in the Trump coalition that extend to economic policy more broadly:...more
Antitrust has taken center stage under the Biden Administration, and the Food and Beverage industry has been one of the main targets of increased enforcement by the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) and Department of Justice,...more
It has been two years since President Biden signed a far-reaching, industry-spanning Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy. The Executive Order outlined a “whole-of-government” approach to...more
The draft guidelines for applying US antitrust laws to merger investigations depart from prior guidance and seek to roll back decades of legal precedent on merger enforcement. Competitive effects analyses are out;...more
Last week the Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission (Antitrust Agencies) jointly released a draft of their long-awaited revised Merger Guidelines, which reflect the Biden Administration’s ramped up merger...more
The Biden administration has placed an emphasis on antitrust enforcement that will create meaningful implications for future transactions, as well as those already consummated. In this webinar, hosted by McDermott Will &...more
As part of our Energy Transition webinar series, McDermott partner Kevin Brophy will moderate a discussion on October 13 between partner Lesli Esposito and associate Matt Evola on new merger control developments made under...more
On July 9, 2021, President Joe Biden announced a broad executive order (the “Order”) intended to boost what it characterizes as stagnant competition across the U.S. economy. The Order, among other things, encourages the...more