The Department of Justice Antitrust Division and Federal Trade Commission issued new draft Merger Guidelines on July 19 that aim to significantly increase scrutiny of merger activity. The new Merger Guidelines would replace...more
Big changes appear to be in store for the premerger notification program under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 (the “HSR Act”). The HSR notification process currently requires parties to transactions...more
6/30/2023
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The FTC recently concluded that many noncompete agreements between employers and employees violate federal antitrust law. These actions represent a rejection of the centuries-old principle that noncompete provisions are...more
The Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division secured a guilty plea in an invitation-to-collude case, making good on the DOJ’s warning it would pursue criminal charges in certain monopolization cases and highlighting the...more