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Bruce D. Sokler

Bruce D. Sokler

Mintz Levin


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FTC Voids Confidentiality and Non-Compete Provisions in Non-Reportable Transaction and Requires Notification of All Future...

Merger agreements often contain ancillary provisions that seem acceptable to the parties in the context of what they are obtaining from the transaction—and those provisions often do not get a hard look by antitrust legal...more

4/8/2013 - Competition Confidentiality Agreements FTC Hart-Scott-Rodino Act Non-Compete Agreements Notice Requirements

Supreme Court Unanimously Rules Unforeseeability Bars Immunity Defense for Allegedly Anticompetitive Hospital Merger

On February 19, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously held that state-action immunity does not protect a state-created hospital authority from antitrust scrutiny over a proposed hospital merger where the anticompetitive...more

2/22/2013 - Acquisitions FTC FTC v. Phoebe Putney Health System Government Entities Governmental Immunity Hospital Mergers Hospitals Monopolization SCOTUS

FTC Issues Favorable Clinical Integration Advisory Opinion to Norman, Oklahoma PHO

Since the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), much attention has been paid to the antitrust treatment of Accountable Care Organizations, provider ventures contemplated by the ACA that the Federal Trade Commission and...more

2/15/2013 - Advisory Opinions Affordable Care Act Clinical Integration FTC Joint Contracting Norman Physician Association Physician Hospital Organizations Rule-of-Reason

DOJ Assistant Attorney General William Baer’s First Merger Challenge Confirms Continued Aggressive Merger Enforcement by Antitrust...

On January 31, 2013, the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) filed its first lawsuit challenging a merger under newly sworn-in Assistant Attorney General, William J. Baer. Both the facts and circumstances...more

2/5/2013 - Anheuser-Busch DOJ Enforcement Mergers

DOJ Approves Greater New York Hospital Association’s Proposed Gainsharing Program

On January 16, the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division (“DOJ”) announced that it does not presently intend to challenge the Greater New York Hospital Association’s (“GNYHA”) proposed gainsharing program. The program...more

1/31/2013 - Anti-Competitive DOJ Gainsharing Hospitals

FTC Announces Annual HSR Thresholds Adjustments

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced on January 10, 2013 increased jurisdictional thresholds for premerger notification filings under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as amended (the HSR Act)....more

1/15/2013 - Exemptions Filing Fees FTC Hart-Scott-Rodino Act Notifications Pre-Merger Filing Requirements

FTC Commissioners Disagree on Limits of Section 5 Applicability to Conduct Not Otherwise Covered by Antitrust Laws

The balancing of antitrust enforcement with intellectual property protections is often controversial. Equally controversial is identifying the outer limit of Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act as it may apply to...more

12/3/2012 - FTC Unfair or Deceptive Trade Practices

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