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Morrison & Foerster LLP

Sights and Sounds from the Antitrust Section’s 2025 Spring Meeting

Antitrust experts from across the globe convened in Washington, D.C. on April 2–4, 2025 to discuss new enforcement policies and share updates on current issues in antitrust. We provide the key highlights from numerous panels...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Antitrust Heads Offer Enforcement Insights to Legal Industry, Sidestepping Traditional ABA Gathering

Breaking from longstanding tradition, the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division (DOJ) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) both recently withdrew their attendance and speakership from the American Bar Association...more

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DOJ Reaffirms Stance on Algorithmic Price Fixing, While Federal Judge Dismisses Price Fixing Complaint Against Software Company —...

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

McCarter & English, LLP

Antitrust in Trump 2.0—the First 60 Days

As the second Trump administration reaches its 60-day mark, it is a good time to take stock of the US antitrust agencies’ actions. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Justice Antitrust Division (DOJ) have...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

FTC Deadlock May End Next Week

On Tuesday, February 25, 2025, the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation will hold a hearing to confirm the nomination of Mark Meador to serve as a Federal Trade Commissioner. Meador previously served in...more

Hogan Lovells

AI & Antitrust in the Second Trump Term

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On January 20, 2025, President Trump repealed the Biden Administration’s Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence (“Biden AI Order”) on the basis that it “hinder[ed]...more

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2024 M&A Annual Review

Our M&A team is honored to have represented clients in some of the most compelling transactions in 2024, from advising the iconic rock band KISS and its co-founders Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley in the sale of all assets...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Quarterly Cartel Catch-Up – New Year, New Administration

The new year marks the transition from the Biden administration and its whole-of-government approach to antitrust enforcement, to the return of President Trump. To spearhead his administration’s antitrust enforcement efforts,...more

Mogin Law LLP

Biden Antitrust Teams' Reminders for Employers. Will Trump 2.0 Care?

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In the closing days of the Biden administration, antitrust law enforcers issued cautions to employers about conduct that could draw criminal charges against them. One is the use of restrictive non-disclosure agreements that...more

Vinson & Elkins LLP

The New Administration: Trends in Antitrust Enforcement

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The Trump Administration’s antitrust enforcement priorities are beginning to take shape. On January 20, 2025, President Trump designated former Federal Trade Commission (FTC) commissioner Andrew Ferguson as the agency’s next...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

2025 Insights: A First Look at Trump’s Second Term

As we step into a new year, the potential shifts under a second Trump administration loom large. Our 2025 Insights publication analyzes the impacts these changes could have on both U.S. and global business environments,...more

Vinson & Elkins LLP

Trump Administration 2.0 – Tech Transactions Update

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The incoming Trump administration is expected to make several policy changes likely to impact tech transactions. President-elect Donald Trump has promised to reduce regulation and cut federal bureaucracy, which he says have...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Antitrust Surprises from DOJ during the Trump Administration – Predicting the Consequences

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In his 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump frequently expressed populist themes, rhetorically criticizing “big business” and “special interests,” and signaled an activist antitrust agenda with his comment in October 2016...more

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

DOJ Vows Criminal Prosecution of Employee "No Poaching" Agreements

A few years ago, several Silicon Valley employers made news when they were accused of agreeing among themselves not to solicit each other’s programmers and software engineering employees. These employees are in high demand,...more

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