On January 10, 2025, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced revised jurisdictional thresholds for determining whether a proposed transaction must be reported to federal authorities under the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR)...more
1/14/2025
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Competition ,
Compliance ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Filing Requirements ,
Hart-Scott-Rodino Act ,
Jurisdictional Thresholds ,
Merger Controls ,
Mergers ,
Premerger Notifications ,
Reporting Requirements
Oil companies ordered to pay $5.6 million for exerting beneficial control before the expiration of the mandatory HSR waiting period.
On January 7, 2025, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) filed and resolved a merger...more
1/10/2025
/ Acquisitions ,
Antitrust Division ,
Antitrust Violations ,
Beneficial Owner ,
Competition ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Energy Sector ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Gun-Jumping ,
Hart-Scott-Rodino Act ,
Mergers ,
Purchase Agreement
As summarized in the July 9, 2021 King & Spalding Client Alert, President Biden issued an executive order on July 9, 2021 designed to enhance competition across multiple sectors of the U.S. economy. One of the order’s key...more
7/14/2021
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Collusion ,
Competition ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Executive Orders ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
No-Poaching ,
Non-Compete Agreements ,
Rulemaking Process ,
Trade Secrets ,
Wage-Fixing
The White House announced today that President Joe Biden issued an expansive executive order designed to enhance competition across multiple sectors of the U.S. economy, including healthcare, technology, internet service,...more
On June 13, 2019, the Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court’s grant of a preliminary injunction blocking the proposed merger of North Dakota healthcare providers Sanford Health, Sanford Bismarck (collectively, “Sanford”)...more
6/18/2019
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Antitrust Division ,
Appeals ,
Competition ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Evidence ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Health Care Providers ,
Hospital Mergers ,
Hospitals ,
Mergers ,
Monopolization ,
Preliminary Injunctions ,
Rebuttal
The Department of Health and Human Services (the “Department”), in conjunction with the Treasury Department, the Federal Trade Commission, and the Department of Labor, recently issued a report describing a number of concerns...more