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May 16, 2025
|7 min read
antitrust tools to address high pharmaceutical costs. Framed around the “most-favored-nation” principle, this initiative is more than a pricing measure—it
signals a broader regulatory agenda that targets market power and pricing disparities long shielded from traditional enforcement. Here’s what c...Read more
May 2, 2025
|4 min read
Washington State Enacts a Broad Premerger Notification Requirement for All Industries
general state-level premerger notification requirement for all transactions.
April 17, 2025
|5 min read
DOJ Secures First Jury Conviction in Criminal Wage-Fixing Case in Nevada
violation of Section 1 of the Sherman Act. For several years, the DOJ Antitrust Division had suffered a string of setbacks—with judges and juries alike—in its
effort to criminally prosecute wage-fixing and “no poach” agreements between competitors in the labor market. But a federal jury in Las Vegas, ...Read more
March 26, 2025
|3 min read
President Trump Fires Remaining Democratic FTC Commissioners
Slaughter, in an unprecedented move that will likely be litigated to the Supreme Court.
February 13, 2025
|2 min read
New, More Burdensome HSR Form Now in Effect
pending challenges by business groups. Accordingly, parties to transactions meeting certain jurisdictional thresholds are required to submit HSR filings using
the new form to the FTC and the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ).
February 11, 2025
|10 min read
Trump 2.0: Non-Merger Antitrust Enforcement Under Trump’s Second Term
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ) took an aggressive approach to antitrust enforcement across
several industries and were particularly hostile to mergers and acquisitions. President Trump’s nominees to lead the antitrust agencies signal tha...Read more
January 17, 2025
|3 min read
Business Groups Sue to Block New HSR Form
Roundtable (collectively, the Plaintiffs) challenge the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) recent changes to the premerger notification rules under the
Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Act, seeking to block the requirement to use a new HSR form that requires substantially more information and documen...Read more
January 17, 2025
|3 min read
DOJ Files Unprecedented Suit Challenging Allegedly Deficient HSR Filings
violated the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Act and seeking unprecedented civil penalties of hundreds of millions of dollars.
January 14, 2025
|2 min read
FTC Imposes Record $5.6 Million Civil Penalty to Settle Gun-Jumping Charges
Verdun Oil Company II LLC, and EP Energy LLC for alleged “gun-jumping” violations of the Hart–Scott–Rodino (HSR) Act.
January 13, 2025
|3 min read
FTC Announces 2025 Revised Thresholds and Filing Fees for HSR Filings
minimum value of transactions that must be notified under the HSR Act to $126.4 million. The new thresholds will become effective for transactions 30 days
after publication in the Federal Register.
January 9, 2025
|6 min read
initiatives in recent years—including courts blocking the FTC’s rule banning non-competes and juries rejecting DOJ no-poach prosecutions—the agencies
continue to pursue a variety of labor-focused actions.
December 18, 2024
|5 min read
FTC Revives Robinson-Patman Act Enforcement in Lawsuit Against Nation’s Top Alcohol Distributor
Robinson-Patman Act (RPA). This action, filed in the Central District of California, marks the first time in over two decades that the federal government has
taken steps to enforce the RPA.
December 17, 2024
|9 min read
Trump’s Antitrust Strategy Continues to Take Shape with New FTC Picks
Commission. In a follow-up post, Trump also announced his selection of antitrust lawyer Mark Meador to serve as a new Republican FTC commissioner.
December 16, 2024
|4 min read
a press release on Wednesday, December 11, announcing their decision to withdraw another key regulatory guidance document: the Antitrust Guidelines for
Collaborations Among Competitors.
November 22, 2024
|4 min read
Supreme Court’s Rejection of DOJ Appeal Could Shift the Landscape for Bid-Rigging Prosecutions
November 14, 2024
|8 min read
A Second Trump Presidency: How Will It Impact Antitrust Merger Review?
antitrust policy and enforcement, particularly following the major policy shifts and increased scrutiny of mergers and acquisitions under the Biden
administration.
November 8, 2024
|7 min read
(HSR) Act, effective 90 days after publication in the Federal Register, i.e., no earlier than January 8, 2025.
October 3, 2024
|5 min read
Banking Reform: An Increase In Scrutiny
Merger Guidelines, along with a 2024 Banking Addendum, in evaluating the competitive impact of mergers and acquisitions in the banking industry. The DOJ’s
announcement comes roughly three years after President Biden issued an executive order encouraging the DOJ to enhance the enforcement sta...Read more
August 22, 2024
|3 min read
FTC Ban on Worker Noncompetes Is Blocked Nationwide
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August 16, 2024
|2 min read
FTC and DOJ Host First Public Meeting of Pricing “Strike Force”
and Illegal Pricing.” This initiative was launched by President Biden in March 2024 where he emphasized the readiness of the DOJ and FTC to enforce the law
in response to “illegal pricing practices that are fraudulent or unfair or deceptive or anticompetitive.”
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