No Password Required: From Heavy Metal to the Front Lines of Cyber Innovation
Protect Yourself and Your Business with Indemnification Understanding
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending August 9, 2025
Compliance Tip of the Day – Final Thoughts on Pre - Acquisition Due Diligence in M&A
Compliance Tip of the Day: Why Engage in Pre-acquisition Due Diligence
Compliance Tip of the Day: Key M&A Enforcement Actions
Compliance Tip of the Day: M&A – International Issues
Daily Compliance News: August 5, 2025, The Staying Focused Edition
Compliance Tip of the Day: M&A Domestic Issues
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending, August 2, 2025
Daily Compliance News: July 28, 2025, The Where is Grasshopper when you need him Edition
Adventures in Compliance: The Novels – The Hound of the Baskervilles: Uncovering M&A Compliance Lessons
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending, July 26, 2025
Regulatory Ramblings: Episode 74 - Global Women in AI/Corporate Director Liability: Discretionary, Not Fiduciary with Tram Anh Nguyen and Marc I. Steinberg
We get Privacy for work – Episode 6: The Potential Privacy Risks Inherent to Mergers and Acquisitions
Daily Compliance News: July 24, 2025, The In Phone Hell Edition
LathamTECH in Focus: Tech Deals: The Emerging Focus of FDI Regulators?
LathamTECH in Focus: Navigating National Security: The Impact of FDI Reviews on Tech M&A
Navigating Employee Integration in Mergers and Acquisitions: Lessons From Pretty Woman — Hiring to Firing Podcast
Antitrust and Competition - The General Court of the European Union Upholds the European Commission’s Decision to Assess Boissons Heintz/Brasserie Nationale Acquisition Under Article 22 of the EU Merger Regulation - On 2 July...more
Accountancy has become one of the most attractive areas for private equity investment, with numerous recent high-profile deals making headlines. Several key business fundamentals make accountancy practices appealing to PE...more
Kustomer is a U.S.-based provider of a cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) platform for business customers enabling them to communicate with their (end) customers. The CRM platform enables business customers to...more
In a parallel push to modernize antitrust oversight, key European regulators, including the European Commission (EC) and the United Kingdom’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), are simultaneously reforming their merger...more
Recent antitrust enforcement actions in the United States and Europe have significantly influenced global M&A trends. Regulators approved major deals in highly concentrated markets, such as Synopsys / Ansys in the US and...more
Under the second Trump administration, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Department of Justice (DOJ) have signaled a significant departure from the antitrust enforcement policies of the Biden administration. This new...more
Bienvenue à l’édition d’août de l’infolettre Avantage concurrentiel par Blakes, une publication mensuelle des groupes Concurrence et antitrust et Investissement étranger de Blakes. Avantage concurrentiel par Blakes présente...more
On August 6, 2025, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) filed a motion for preliminary injunction to block Edwards Lifesciences Corporation’s (“Edwards”) $945 million proposed acquisition of JenaValve Technology, Inc....more
On August 7, the DOJ and four state attorneys general announced a settlement to resolve their challenge to the $3.3 billion acquisition of Amedisys, Inc. (“Amedisys”) by UnitedHealth Group Inc. (“UnitedHealth”), as well as...more
The first half of 2025 has seen an acceleration of M&A activity, including large-scale life sciences transactions, such as Merck’s $3.9 billion acquisition of SpringWorks, Sanofi’s $9.5 billion acquisition of Blueprint...more
Participants in the renewable energy industry should be aware of antitrust and competition rules because renewable energy is no longer a nascent field. In 2025, the United States is projected to generate 25% of its...more
We interview Joanna Tsai, cohead of Cornerstone Research’s merger investigations practice, to gain her insights on delivering effective testimony in high-stakes cases, as well as the broader changes shaping competition...more
We interview Celeste Saravia, cohead of Cornerstone Research’s antitrust and competition practice, to gain her insights on antitrust in the digital era. Dr. Saravia discusses the evolution of antitrust as new digital markets...more
Welcome to the August issue of Blakes Competitive Edge, a monthly publication of the Blakes Competition, Antitrust & Foreign Investment group. Blakes Competitive Edge provides an overview of recent developments in Canadian...more
The U.S. wireless market consolidated a bit more on Aug. 1 when T-Mobile US, Inc. completed its acquisition of UScellular’s wireless operations. The deal went through after receiving antitrust clearance from the Department of...more
Colorado and Washington have enacted groundbreaking laws modeled after the Uniform Law Commission’s Uniform Antitrust Pre-Merger Notification Act (UAPNA), requiring parties to certain Hart-Scott-Rodino Act (HSR) reportable...more
Welcome to “Compliance Tip of the Day,” the podcast where we bring you daily insights and practical advice on navigating the ever-evolving landscape of compliance and regulatory requirements. Whether you’re a seasoned...more
ServiceNow Inc. has announced plans to acquire Moveworks Inc., an enterprise artificial intelligence company, in a $2.85 billion deal. The acquisition is currently under an in-depth antitrust investigation by the Department...more
This monthly report outlines key developments in China’s antitrust sector for July. SAMR Solicits Public Comments on the Revised Provisions on the Prohibition of Monopoly Agreements, Refining the “Safe Harbor” Standards for...more
The European Union’s Foreign Subsidies Regulation (“FSR”) has now been in force for over a year, introducing a new layer of regulatory oversight for companies engaging in M&A transactions within the EU. Designed to address...more
Global investment in AI surged to approximately USD 252 billion in 2024, representing a thirteen-fold increase since 2014. As AI technologies become deeply embedded across key economic sectors such as finance, manufacturing,...more
On 4 June 2025, Colorado became the second state—following the state of Washington—to enact a broad, state-level, industry-agnostic premerger notification regime. Under Colorado’s new law, any party that submits a filing...more
Recent developments have made navigating multinational antitrust merger reviews even more complex and replete with traps for the unwary. ...more
Under the Biden administration, the U.S. antitrust agencies, particularly the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division (DOJ or Antitrust Division), were unusually resistant to negotiated merger remedies. Instead, they...more