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Last August, we wrote about the Justice Department’s lawsuit against software developer RealPage, which alleged that the property management software company enabled rent collusion, through its revenue management product, in...more
Key Takeaways - DOJ Launches Whistleblower Rewards Program: The Department of Justice (DOJ), in partnership with the United States Postal Service (USPS), introduced its first-ever Antitrust Whistleblower Rewards Program,...more
On March 27, the Department of Justice Antitrust Division submitted a Statement of Interest (SOI) in a pricing algorithm case, in which it continues to argue that the use of third-party algorithmic price devices may...more
The firm is pleased to distribute the Wilson Sonsini Global Cartel Law Quarterly Q4 2024 / Q1 2025, which provides a summary of key cartel enforcement trends across the U.S., Europe, and beyond. A “cartel” under competition...more
Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and eight Senate co-sponsors reintroduced “The Preventing Algorithmic Collusion Act” – formerly Senate Bill 3686 – as Senate Bill 232 (S. 232) on January 23, 2025. S. 232 makes no substantive...more
Although the scope of federal antitrust enforcement under the second Trump administration remains uncertain, the Procurement Collusion Strike Force (PCSF) is expected to remain active. The PCSF, which was started by the first...more
In an update to our prior report on the evolving antitrust landscape for algorithmic pricing, a federal judge in Washington recently denied a motion to dismiss claims that a group of multifamily rental property managers...more
Starting in October 2022, companies that use software to assist in setting prices for their products have faced an avalanche of litigation claiming that the common use by competitors of the same pricing software inflates...more
The guidance stresses heightened focus on emerging antitrust risks, enhanced support and incentives, and proactive monitoring. On November 12, 2024, the Antitrust Division of the US Department of Justice (the Antitrust...more
Despite the summer doldrums, cartel enforcers around the world had several notable enforcement actions and, perhaps more importantly, signaled a busy fall and winter. In the United States, the Department of Justice’s...more
On September 30, 2024, Judge Karen M. Williams of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey dismissed with prejudice a complaint, lodged by a putative class of consumers, that alleged various...more
As Holland & Knight's Antitrust Team previously reported, the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada in May 2024 dismissed with prejudice a putative class action alleging that a handful of Las Vegas hotel operators...more
DOJ’s Antitrust Division has been relatively quiet in prosecuting criminal cartel or bid-rigging cases. Since 2015, the Antitrust Division’s criminal enforcement has fallen from the billions in penalties each year to the...more
On March 28, 2024, the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division and the Federal Trade Commission (“the agencies”) jointly submitted a Statement of Interest on behalf of the United States in Cornish-Adebiyi v. Caesars...more
Earlier this month, President Biden announced the formation of a “Strike Force on Unfair and Illegal Pricing.” This strike force will be an interagency group co-chaired by the FTC and DOJ. President Biden stated the group...more
A three-judge panel from the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit overturned an executive’s bid-rigging antitrust conviction, holding that the district court erred in applying the per se standard to the executive’s...more
With the end of summer and fall right around the corner, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Antitrust Division is gearing up for several crucial displays of its criminal enforcement priorities across multiple...more
Antitrust practitioners from around the world gathered in Washington, D.C. the week of March 27, 2023, for a series of industry meetings, centered around the American Bar Association Antitrust Law Section’s 71st Annual Spring...more
The Justice Department’s Antitrust Division has had a rough year in the criminal arena. While the Antitrust Division has aggressively blocked several proposed mergers, it has lost several significant criminal cases. ...more
Since the last edition of the QCC, there has been a series of dramatic developments in the criminal antitrust enforcement space in the U.S. from the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division (Division)....more
The end of 2021 continued to be a busy time for antitrust enforcers in the U.S. and around the world. Perhaps most notably, in November the Senate confirmed Jonathan Kanter to lead the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust...more
The Antitrust Division won a preliminary skirmish against two co-defendants who challenged the criminal indictment against them charging price-fixing in the labor market. District Court Judge Mazzant, in the Eastern District...more
More than halfway through the year, 2021 has shaped up to be another busy time for antitrust enforcers. In July, the Biden administration confirmed that antitrust remains a top priority by issuing a sweeping Executive Order,...more
On June 25, 2021, the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division (the “Division”) announced the first criminal antitrust prosecution and “international resolution obtained by the Procurement Collusion Strike Force (PCSF).”...more
The Antitrust Division has pushed bid-rigging and price-fixing prosecutions of government contractors. It is long overdue – fraud enforcement has uncovered a number of bid-rigging and price-fixing schemes among government...more