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Record “Gun Jumping” Penalty Imposed by FTC

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

FTC and DOJ Announce New Enforcement Actions Against Interlocking Directorates

On August 16, 2023, the US Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) brought its first enforcement action under Section 8 of the Clayton Act in 40 years. At the same time, the US Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division (“DOJ” and...more

DOJ’s Recent Loss in Antitrust Labor Case Highlights Ongoing Focus on Alleged Healthcare Labor Market Restrictions

The Government Continues to Seek Criminal Sanctions in Cases Regarding Wage-Fixing and No-Poach Agreements - On Wednesday, March 22, a Maine federal jury acquitted four operators of home health agencies who were accused of...more

Venue Changes for State Antitrust Enforcement

The $1.7 trillion government-wide omnibus spending bill announced by Congress on Tuesday incorporates a provision, entitled the State Antitrust Enforcement Venue Act (“the State AG Venue Act”), which could significantly alter...more

DOJ Brings First Criminal Wage Fixing Complaint

On December 10, 2020, the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice announced the indictment of Neeraj Jindal, a former owner of a therapist staffing company, for a criminal conspiracy to fix wages paid to physical...more

DOJ/FTC Release Competitor Collaboration Guidance in Light of COVID-19

On March 24, 2020, the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (the Agencies) issued guidance and outlined an expedited review process for companies seeking to work together...more

FTC Announces Temporary Filing Procedures Due to Coronavirus

On Friday, March 13, 2020 the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice Antitrust Division announced plans to implement temporary new procedures for the submission of Hart-Scott-Rodino pre-merger notification...more

DOJ and FTC Release New Vertical Merger Review Guidelines for Public Comment

On Friday, January 10, the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division and the Federal Trade Commission issued new guidelines for the agencies’ review of vertical mergers. Vertical mergers involve the combination of firms...more

Senators Urge DOJ to Develop Antitrust Guidance for Licensing of Standard Essential Patents

On Monday, October 21, 2019, U.S. Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Christopher A. Coons (D-DE) sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice pushing it to provide greater clarity as to its antitrust enforcement policy on...more

FTC Wins Sanford Health/Mid Dakota Merger Appeal in Eighth Circuit

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

Additional Lessons From AT&T/Time Warner: Self-Help Remedies in Merger Challenges

The DOJ Antitrust Division’s high profile, unsuccessful attempt to block the AT&T/Time Warner merger ended on February 26, 2019 after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit affirmed the trial court’s decision to allow...more

FTC Announces Increased Hart-Scott-Rodino Thresholds

On February 15, 2019, 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

Impact of U.S. Government Shutdown on M&A

How could the government shutdown affect your M&A transactions? Understand the ramifications of the shutdown through the lens of antitrust, securities and exchange commission, CFIUS, export controls and economic sanctions...more

New House Democratic Majority Proposes Aggressive Antitrust Scrutiny

The new House Democratic majority sworn in last Thursday intends to ramp up antitrust oversight, pledging to “crack down on corporate monopolies and the abuse of economic and political power” as part of their “Better Deal”...more

Sanford Health/Mid Dakota Clinic Healthcare Provider Merger Temporarily Blocked

On Wednesday, December 13, 2017, a federal district court issued an order preliminarily enjoining the merger of North Dakota healthcare providers, Sanford Health, Sanford Bismarck, (together “Sanford”) and Mid Dakota Clinic,...more

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