On July 3, 2024, plaintiffs in Ryan LLC v. Federal Trade Commission won their first significant victory in their noncompete case against the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) when Judge Ada Brown of the Northern District of...more
Last week, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) voted in favor of its controversial final rule banning nationwide nearly all noncompete agreements. While the potential noncompete ban has been politically controversial since it...more
With an increasing number of companies implementing environmental, social and governance (ESG) initiatives, ESG strategies are becoming more nuanced and complex. While not without controversy, these initiatives can be...more
In recent weeks, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has implemented significant changes to its corporate enforcement policies in an attempt to encourage companies to root out and voluntarily disclose corporate misconduct....more
Non-compete agreements between employers and their employees traditionally are governed by state law. But that did not stop the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ) from recently filing a statement of...more
On October 28, 2021, in a speech before the American Bar Association’s 36th Annual National Institute on White Collar Crime, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco formally announced that the Department of Justice is taking...more
With President Biden’s nomination of D.C. Circuit Judge Merrick Garland for U.S. attorney general proceeding toward confirmation in the Senate, the leader of the nation’s legal department is poised to change enforcement...more
On September 3, 2020, the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Antitrust Division (the Division) published the Merger Remedies Manual (the Manual), issuing new guidelines for remedying anticompetitive mergers. Specifically, the...more
On January 10, 2020, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Antitrust Division and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Bureau of Competition published their Draft Vertical Merger Guidelines (Draft Guidelines). This was the first...more
Antitrust pressures are mounting for merging, growing and already-large companies as the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Department of Justice (DOJ), congressional panels, presidential candidates and even the American public...more
On May 13, 2019, the Supreme Court issued its most recent decision relating to antitrust class action litigation. The case, Apple Inc. v. Pepper, No. 17-204, could represent a significant shift in antitrust class action...more
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