On October 5, 2023, the Brookings Institution hosted an event entitled “A conversation with FTC Chair Lina Khan and DOJ Assistant Attorney General Jonathan Kanter on antitrust enforcement.” The discussion was moderated by the Honorable Bill Baer, Former Assistant Attorney General for the U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division (the “Division”) under President Obama. Khan and Kanter discussed the challenges and opportunities of their respective tenures during the Biden administration. Both agency leaders pledged to focus on deterrence in both consumer and labor markets, consistent with the changes proposed to modernize the Merger Guidelines and Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Act filing form.