Antitrust scrutiny of healthcare markets is nothing new. The Biden Administration and first Trump Administration focused antitrust enforcement efforts across the healthcare and life sciences industries. The newly installed...more
5/27/2025
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In April 2025, a Nevada federal jury convicted Eduardo Lopez, a home healthcare staffing executive, for fixing the wages of home health nurses. The conviction marks the Department of Justice Antitrust Division’s (DOJ) first...more
4/25/2025
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Wage-Fixing
On February 26, 2025, Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) Chair Andrew Ferguson announced that the FTC would create the agency’s “first ever” Joint Labor Task Force (the “Task Force”), focusing on anticompetitive labor market...more
With every change in administration, businesses and practitioners wonder what the new administration will mean for antitrust enforcement in the United States. Speculation was at fever pitch four years ago, after Democratic...more
2/13/2025
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Active until its final day in office, the Biden administration focused intently on antitrust compliance programs. Most recently, antitrust enforcers made significant policy changes to their approach to evaluating corporate...more
1/24/2025
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Hart-Scott-Rodino Act ,
Information Sharing ,
Labor Reform ,
Trump Administration
The Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice quietly made a change to its Leniency Policy and Procedures (the “Leniency Policy”) that could impact companies acquiring businesses or companies that they discover may have...more
The Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice has quietly made a change to its Leniency Policy and Procedures (the “Leniency Policy”) that could impact companies involved in transactions that discover potential...more
This marks the second issue of WilmerHale’s The Interplay: Key Decisions at the Intersection of Antitrust & Life Sciences, a monthly bulletin that will highlight developments in the antitrust and life sciences space. We will...more
10/16/2023
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Drug Pricing ,
False Marking ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Hatch-Waxman ,
Industry Consolidation ,
Life Sciences ,
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Orange Book ,
Partnerships ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Pharmacies ,
Policy Statement ,
Section 340B ,
TPAs
On October 31, 2022, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) secured a criminal guilty plea from Nathan Zito, the president of a Montana paving and asphalt contractor, to attempted monopolization under Section 2 of the Sherman...more