On January 24, 2022, the Federal Trade Commission announced revised notification thresholds pursuant to the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as amended. The HSR Act requires parties to file notification...more
The FTC and DOJ announced today that they would be suspending the “discretionary” early termination process because of the “transition to a new administration” and the “unprecedented volume” of HSR filings for the start of a...more
Please be advised that the FTC and DOJ are suspending hard copy HSR filings effective today, and will be implementing an FTP site for electronic-only HSR filings shortly. No filings at all will be accepted today. The FTC...more
On January 10, the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice released a draft of their long-anticipated vertical merger guidelines and withdrew their 1984 Vertical Merger Guidelines. Vertical mergers received a...more
On Thursday, March 16, 2017, in a speech at the Bundeskartellamt’s 18th Conference on Competition, European Commissioner for Competition, Margrethe Vestager, discussed the specter of automated price fixing cartels. She...more
On January 19, 2017, the Federal Trade Commission announced revised notification thresholds pursuant to the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as amended. The HSR Act requires parties to file notification...more