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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
Treating Compliance Like an Asset
Episode 376 -- DOJ's Unicat Settlement and the Future Look of Trade Enforcement Actions
First 100 Days of the New HSR Rules with Antitrust Partner Kara Kuritz
Daily Compliance News: June 23, 2025, The Is Walmart Cool Edition
Expert or Arbitrator? — PE Pathways Podcast
The LathamTECH Podcast — Getting Deals Done: Tackling Antitrust Challenges in Tech M&A
Podcast - Navigating the New Landscape of Private Equity in Healthcare
Inside a $175M Deal: Tim McLoughlin & Joshua Hayes Live From RDU Startup Week
Strategies for Business Resilience in Uncertain Times
Daily Compliance News: May 20, 2025, The What Could Go Wrong Edition
Business Better Podcast Episode: Bridging Campuses: Legal Insights on Education Industry Consolidation – Labor, Employment, and Benefits
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Daily Compliance News: April 25, 2025, The Trouble in Travel Edition
Daily Compliance News: April 24, 2025, The Made in Malaysia Edition
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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
Parties to transactions should be aware of new requirements for state-level merger reporting – so-called “mini-HSR Acts” – modeled on the Uniform Antitrust Pre-Merger Notification Act (“UAPNA”). Washington and Colorado have...more
Colorado and Washington have each enacted statutes modeled after the Uniform Law Commission’s Uniform Antitrust Pre-Merger Notification Act. Soon, both states will require parties to certain mergers and acquisitions (M&A)...more
Washington was the first state to adopt the Uniform Antitrust Pre-Merger Notification Act. Signed into law in April 2025 and effective as of July 27, 2025, the Washington law establishes new premerger filing requirements for...more
Starting Sunday, July 27, 2025, any party to an M&A transaction that triggers a federal Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Act filing must also submit a copy to the Washington attorney general if the filing party (1) maintains a...more
Both the CentePending legislation in the Pennsylvania General Assembly seeks to limit the impact of private equity on health care in Pennsylvania. House Bill 1460, titled the “Health System Protection Act,” passed with...more
Throughout the country, state governments have been introducing bills which grant state authorities the ability to closely scrutinize health care transactions – specifically, with an eye toward those involving private equity....more
After the FTC issued a replacement of the 2016 Antitrust Guidance for Human Resource Professionals on January 16, 2025, Commissioner – now Chair – Andrew N. Ferguson, joined by Commissioner Melissa Holyoak, punctuated his...more
Earlier this year, Washington state enacted a version of the nascent Uniform Antitrust Pre-Merger Notification Act (the Uniform Act), which is slated to take effect on July 27....more
On April 4, Washington became the first state to enact the Uniform Antitrust Premerger Notification Act (APNA). Under the APNA, a person making a Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) filing on or after July 27, 2025 must provide a copy of...more
Colorado’s antitrust landscape is undergoing a fundamental transformation — not just because of the sweeping legislative changes enacted in 2023, but also due to the assertive approach now being taken by the Colorado Attorney...more
State attorneys general (AGs) have a legal right to challenge anticompetitive mergers, both under the federal Clayton Act and their own state antitrust laws. And in recent years, state AGs have played increasingly larger...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
On June 4, Colorado became the second state to adopt the Uniform Antitrust Premerger Notification Act (Act) when Governor Jared Polis signed SB25-126 into law. Like Washington’s version of the Act, Colorado’s new law imposes...more
In the wake of the recent major revisions to the federal merger review form, states are also getting into the act, creating broad new transaction notification requirements. Such notification requirements are not completely...more
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
For decades, California enforcers and politicians have argued for state-level antitrust enforcement activity at a level commensurate with California’s $4.1 trillion economy, the largest state economy in the United States....more
State attorneys general (state AGs) are expected to ramp up antitrust enforcement. Some would argue that enforcement is an effort to fill a perceived gap left by the Trump administration, but state AGs have been signaling...more
On May 6, 2025, Indiana Governor Mike Braun signed Indiana HB 1666 into law. This new law grants Indiana’s attorney general authority to investigate market concentration of health care entities, modifies existing requirements...more
Indiana currently has a reporting requirement related to health care entity mergers and acquisitions that requires parties to covered health care entity transactions—including Dental Support Organization (“DSO”)...more
Effective July 27, 2025, any person that files a Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Act Notification and Report Form (HSR Form) with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) must also submit an electronic...more
On May 6, 2025, Indiana state enacted HB 1666, which modifies Indiana’s existing transaction law to exempt certain practitioner-owned practices, grants the Attorney General additional authority to investigate health care...more
In 2024 alone, over 676 private equity firms and related investors acquired healthcare companies or related assets. The growing influence of private equity in the healthcare industry has not gone unnoticed on either of the...more
In our last antitrust developments publication, we commented on the challenge to the new Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act (HSR Act) final rule brought by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other parties in the...more
States’ merger review and enforcement initiatives continue to expand as Washington adopts the nation’s first “mini-HSR” rule. On April 4, 2025, the State of Washington passed the Antitrust Premerger Notification Act...more