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Healthcare Trends & Transactions Q1 2025

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC on 4/17/2025

The healthcare mergers and acquisitions (M&A) market began 2025 with a slower start than expected given the easing headwinds and building momentum at the end of last year, with the number of deals reported in Q1 lower than...more

Anthem and Aetna Merger Trials Begin

Baker Donelson on 1/4/2017

While the election of Donald Trump as the nation's next president is clearly the biggest news in Washington over the last two months, for the insurance industry, big news has also been made at the federal district courthouse....more

Judge Rejects Joint Defense Privilege Claim; Orders Would-be Merger Partners to Produce Sensitive Emails to DOJ

K&L Gates LLP on 12/8/2016

On October 14, 2016, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., ruled that two companies could not claim a joint defense privilege for certain sensitive emails they had exchanged in connection with their proposed merger. ...more

Anthem and Aetna Prepare for Merger Trials Against the DOJ Antitrust Division

Baker Donelson on 11/3/2016

In late July, the DOJ Antitrust Division filed actions in federal district court seeking to derail both the Anthem/Cigna and Aetna/Humana mergers. In each case, the DOJ contended that consumers would face higher insurance...more

Health Insurance Merger Challenges: Of Antitrust and the Affordable Care Act

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP on 7/27/2016

The Department of Justice and attorneys general from multiple states last week sued to halt two health insurance mergers, each worth billions of dollars. The challenged deals are Anthem’s planned merger with Cigna and...more

DOJ Challenges Health Insurance Merger

King & Spalding on 7/22/2016

On July 21, 2016, the Department of Justice, Antitrust Division (the “DOJ”) announced that it, along with several state attorneys general, would sue to block two multi-billion dollar health insurance mergers between Aetna and...more

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