On April 23, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) voted 3-2 to issue a final rule that would ban virtually all non-compete agreements for nearly all workers of for-profit employers. Commissioners Melissa Holyoak and...more
4/25/2024
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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently announced an increase to the annual adjustment of the monetary thresholds that apply to mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures per the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements...more
Our downloadable report, Legal Insights for Manufacturing, explores how the business, legal, and regulatory framework is evolving—and will evolve—to address the large generational shifts taking place. This year, our report...more
11/2/2023
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Join Husch Blackwell’s Meg Pekarske and Wendy Arends as they explore the new draft Merger Guidelines and what enforcement may look like in the future. Given the number of hospices looking to consolidate through mergers, joint...more
Consistent with the Biden administration’s whole-of-government approach to address perceived consolidation in a variety of industries, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Antitrust Division...more
8/16/2023
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Consistent with the Biden Administration’s whole-of-government approach to address perceived consolidation in a variety of industries, including in the healthcare industry, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and U.S....more
8/15/2023
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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently announced an increase to the annual adjustment of the monetary thresholds that apply to mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures per the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements...more
On January 5, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission announced a proposed rule that, if enacted, would amount to a near-total ban on the use of non-compete agreements and leave employers with fewer legal means of protecting their...more
The U.S. Department of Justice’s recent criminal prosecutions of health care executives for no-poach and wage-fixing conspiracies have been met with not-guilty verdicts. Despite these losses, the Department continues to...more
A group of Illinois cannabis companies face an antitrust lawsuit alleging that they maintained illegal interlocking directorates. An interlocking directorate is where a person from one company serves as an officer or director...more
President Biden’s top antitrust cops, Jonathan Kanter at the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division (DOJ) and Lina Khan at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), are putting more arrows in their quiver to take aim at...more
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently announced an increase as part of its annual adjustment to the monetary thresholds that apply to mergers and acquisitions per the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of...more
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has launched an inquiry into the ongoing supply chain disruptions affecting a broad array of goods across the economy. Using a compulsory process to investigate the competitive impact of...more
National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I, II and III have adopted an interim policy effective July 1, 2021, deregulating rules prohibiting student-athlete compensation based on the use of their name, image...more
On June 21, 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision in National Collegiate Athletic Association v. Alston et al that affirmed the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and U.S. District Court for the...more
The U.S. Supreme Court’s unanimous decision on April 22, 2021, in AMG Capital Management LLC v. Federal Trade Commission curtails the authority of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to seek equitable monetary relief in...more
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced the decrease in monetary thresholds under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as amended (HSR Act), that will apply to transactions closing on or after March...more
Governments, manufacturers, healthcare providers, pharmacies, grocery stores, distributors, and others at the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) continue to work as quickly as possible to respond to the...more
State Attorneys General in more than 40 states and their federal counterparts are using consumer protection authority triggered by state and federal COVID-19 emergency declarations to ferret out and stop scams and price...more
Over the past week, U.S. antitrust authorities have further refined their temporary merger review procedures and provided additional guidance to expedite proposed healthcare collaborations during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Antitrust authorities in the United States are implementing emergency procedures in order to continue merger reviews amid the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.
Effective March 17, 2020, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)...more
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced the revised monetary thresholds under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as amended (HSR Act), that will apply to transactions closing on or after February...more
2/3/2020
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