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Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Unhealthy Alliance: Hospitals Sharing Senior Leadership Increases Antitrust Risk

Collusion among rivals has long been considered the “supreme evil of antitrust.” It is not surprising, therefore, that antitrust scrutiny was applied to one hospital’s decision to employ the Chief Executive Officer of its...more

Dickinson Wright

Navigating Noncompetes in Health Care: Understanding the FTC’s Impact

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Dickinson Wright attorney Kim Ruppel recently participated in The Risky Health Care Business Podcast, where she and host Scott Nelson delved into the intricate world of noncompetes and their ramifications for both health care...more

Lippes Mathias LLP

Efficiency at What Costs? Creating Internal AI Policies Mitigates Legal and Business Risks Now.

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With the increase in popularity of artificial intelligence uses in business, companies are scratching the surface of AI’s potential to create efficient processes, automate tasks, and generate content at a low cost. With...more

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

Is It Still Safe To Exchange Wage and Other Compensation-Related Information?

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Since the mid-1990s, human resource (HR) professionals (and those advising them) have relied on the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) “antitrust safety zone” articulated in Statement 6 of the...more

Snell & Wilmer

A Planned Executive Order Regarding Competition

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Neil Irwin of the New York Times reported on Thursday morning that President Biden is preparing an Executive Order focused on competition policy. He reports that people familiar with the Order say one section has several...more

Epiq

[Webinar] 2020 Antitrust Trends: High Tech & The Global Wave Of Regulation - July 22nd, 8:00 am PT

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Working with a panel of international legal and technology experts, we will explore the following topics: - US – the expanding and extensive level of antitrust focus on the tech sector by regulatory agencies, as well as an...more

Morgan Lewis - Tech & Sourcing

Legal Protections in RFP Responses

When responding to requests for proposals (RFPs), vendors should be conscious that they might be disclosing highly confidential or commercially sensitive material to the potential customer, with no guarantee of securing the...more

Orrick - Antitrust Watch

No HSR Filing Means No Antitrust Issues? Think Again!

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My transaction does not require an HSR filing. That means we don’t have to worry about potential antitrust issues, right? WRONG. The HSR Act requires that parties to certain transactions submit a premerger notification...more

Jones Day

FTC Warns Parties on Information Exchanges During M&A Due Diligence

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The Situation: The Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") recently published a blog post reminding merging parties to avoid creating antitrust liability through the exchange of competitively sensitive information during merger...more

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Amendments to Australian Antitrust Regime Take Effect

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The Situation: Australia has adopted a package of changes to its antitrust laws that are designed to give more power to its antitrust enforcement agency, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, and to increase...more

Cozen O'Connor

Amended Rule 26: Protecting Against Competitively Sensitive Disclosures

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Hundreds of billions of business e-mails are sent per day. That number may not come as a shock to many, but once a company is involved in litigation, e-discovery can be quite burdensome. Even the mention of the phrase...more

Orrick - Trade Secrets Group

Protecting Trade Secrets In Germany

As Europe’s largest economy, one might expect Germany to provide robust protection of intellectual property assets such as trade secrets....more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

"Federal Trade Commission Settles Illegal Information Exchange Allegations With Bosley, Inc."

On April 8, 2013, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a proposed settlement with hair restoration company Bosley, Inc. to resolve allegations that Bosley illegally exchanged competitively sensitive, nonpublic...more

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