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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
Recent developments have made navigating multinational antitrust merger reviews even more complex and replete with traps for the unwary. ...more
The recently announced acquisition of beauty and skincare brand Rhode, founded by celebrity Hailey Bieber in 2022, for $1 billion by veteran cosmetics brand e.l.f. Beauty, marks a pivotal moment in the rapidly evolving beauty...more
While M&A activity has slowed in the tail end of the first quarter of 2025, including in healthcare, there have been several noteworthy developments in the antitrust space in the first 100 days of the Trump Administration. ...more
Private equity acquisitions—notably roll-up strategies—continued to face antitrust scrutiny in 2024. As did serial acquisitions by non-PE acquirers. Headwinds were particularly strong in the U.S., but breezes from other...more
As the 2024 presidential election approaches, the positions of Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump on a variety of antitrust and consumer protection matters have come into focus. Over the last four...more
The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC” or the “Commission”) has announced a final rule (the “Final Rule”) significantly expanding the premerger notification and reporting requirements under the Hart‑Scott‑Rodino Antitrust...more
On October 10, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”), with the concurrence of the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice, (the “DOJ”, and together, the “Agencies”) voted unanimously to adopt new premerger...more
U.S. antitrust regulators, particularly the Federal Trade Commission, have been stepping up scrutiny of private equity investments in healthcare. On March 5, the FTC, along with the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S....more
Private equity sponsors can exhale: A federal court recently stopped the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) antitrust action that targeted private equity sponsor Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe for the healthcare "roll-up"...more
Over the past several months, antitrust enforcement activity in the healthcare provider sector has continued to steadily increase. In Part I of this two-part update, we discussed recent lawsuits involving private equity...more
As Holland & Knight observed previously, the Biden Administration's antitrust enforcers have trained their sights on private equity firms and their portfolio companies, including in a Sept. 21, 2023, lawsuit challenging one...more
The FTC’s Amgen/Horizon Lawsuit Ends With a Whimper - We covered the FTC’s investigation into (and litigation challenging) Amgen’s $28.3 billion acquisition of rare disease specialist Horizon Therapeutics in our Q1 and...more
Consistent with the Biden Administration’s whole-of-government approach to address perceived consolidation in a variety of industries, including in the healthcare industry, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and U.S....more
The year 2023 is proving to be a milestone year for antitrust enforcement. Less so for novel cases and investigations and more so for the generational changes being proposed by the enforcement authorities for merger...more
Department of Justice Withdraws Long-Standing Antitrust Healthcare Policy Statements - On February 2, 2023, the Antitrust Division of the US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the withdrawal of its support for three...more
Tech M&A in 2022 was a tale of two halves. The year started off with a bang, with mega-deals such as Microsoft’s pending $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard, Elon Musk’s $44 billion acquisition of Twitter and...more
The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) recently issued a notice of proposed rulemaking to amend the premerger notification rules (the “Rules”) that implement the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 (the “HSR...more
On 11 February 2020 Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that it has issued Special Orders to five large technology firms requiring them to “provide information about prior acquisitions not reported to the antitrust...more
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced on January 28, 2020, the reporting thresholds under Section 7A of the Clayton Act, known as the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 (the Act), will be...more
On January 28, 2020, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that in 2020 the minimum size of transaction threshold for reporting proposed mergers and acquisitions under the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Act will increase from...more
Transactions closing on February 27 or later will be subject to increased HSR Act jurisdictional and filing fee thresholds. ...more
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission announced the annual changes to the thresholds contained in section 7A (Hart-Scott-Rodino) and section 8 of the Clayton Act (15 U.S.C. §§ 18a, 19) (Interlocking Directors). The new HSR...more
The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) has announced its annual revisions to the dollar jurisdictional thresholds in the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as amended (“HSR Act”); the revised thresholds will...more
The annual adjustment of the dollar thresholds for pre-acquisition filings under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act will take effect February 27. All transactions closing on or after the effective date will be governed by the new...more