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Republican AGs Trash Sustainability Groups’ Recycling Practices as Anticompetitive

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Florida AG James Uthmeier led a group of 5 Republican AGs in sending letters to major environmental organizations, alleging that they coordinated with large corporations to impose anticompetitive recycling and packaging...more

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UK Competition and Markets Authority Publishes Guidance for HR Teams When Competing for Talent

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On 9 September 2025, the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) published new guidance on how competition law applies to recruiting workers, setting pay and other working conditions. The guidance builds on a recent string...more

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UK Competition Litigation Quarterly Update: Q3 2025

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With Autumn upon us, we've been looking back at the third quarter of competition litigation news in 2025. There was plenty to choose from, but here's six developments our lawyers have picked out....more

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Nvidia’s $100B Investment in OpenAI Raises Antitrust Eyebrows

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It was huge news last month. Nvidia and OpenAI signed a letter of intent for a strategic partnership that will deploy at least 10 gigawatts of AI data center capacity requiring millions of chips, fast-computing graphics...more

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Increased Scrutiny of Crop Inputs: USDA Announcement Signals a Renewed Partnership with DOJ Antitrust Enforcement

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At the Ag Outlook Forum in Kansas City, Missouri, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (“USDA”) Brooke Rollins made the surprise announcement in her “View from USDA” that USDA and the U.S. Department of Justice...more

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Cartels Antitrust Enforcement and Litigation - September 2025

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The word “cartel” conjures images of mobster movies, lurid headlines, and drug busts. But a less exotic brand of cartel can be far more relevant to the business world. In an economic sense, a cartel is simply a collection of...more

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The Treatment of Innovation in EU Merger Control at the Crossroads

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Recognising that innovation is essential to driving growth in Europe, the European Commission (EC) has made it one of the central themes in the modernisation of the EU merger control framework. The EC recognises that mergers...more

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FTC Employer-Employee Noncompete Warning Letters: Must-Knows for Healthcare Employers and Staffing Firms

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On Sept. 10, 2025, the FTC announced the issuance of warning letters to large healthcare employers and staffing firms concerning the use of noncompete clauses in employer-employee contracts. In the warning letters, FTC...more

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FTC Chairman Submits Regulatory Reform Recommendations to OMB

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FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson submitted a report to the Office of Management and Budget recommending deletion or modification of more than 125 federal regulations he views as anticompetitive. ...more

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Goodwin Antitrust & Regulatory Shorts: Takeaways for Businesses From the General Court’s Judgment in Michelin v. Commission

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On 9 July 2025, the General Court of the European Union handed down its judgment in Case T 188/24, Michelin v. Commission, annulling in part the decision of the European Commission (the Commission) to submit Compagnie...more

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Does Trump’s AI Action Plan Handcuff the FTC and Antitrust Enforcement? — AI: The Washington Report

With its existing authority, the Federal Trade Commission was considered a likely situs for federal regulatory and antitrust enforcement vis-à-vis AI. However, instead President Trump’s AI Action Plan directs the FTC to...more

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Washington and Colorado Enact Uniform Premerger Notification Laws: What Businesses Need to Know About The New Era in State AG...

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As of July 27, Washington State is now the first state to enact a uniform antitrust premerger notification law, and as of August 6, 2025, Colorado will be the second. Both new notification laws are similar, as they are...more

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FTC Restricts Omnicom-IPG Merger to Prevent Viewpoint-Based Ad Bias

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The Federal Trade Commission approved Omnicom Group Inc.’s approximately $13.5 billion acquisition of The Interpublic Group of Companies, Inc. (IPG) but with strict conditions designed to prevent anticompetitive coordination...more

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Compass v. Zillow and The PLS.com v. NAR: Antitrust Lawsuits Could Reshape Real Estate Marketing

The real estate industry is again in the antitrust spotlight, with recent lawsuits targeting the market dominance and listing policies of major players like Zillow, Inc. (Zillow) and the National Association of Realtors...more

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Canadian Competition Bureau’s Final Guidance Discourages Property Controls

The Canadian Competition Bureau (Bureau) raised concerns in its 2023 market study of the grocery sector about the use of competitor property controls (i.e., terms in commercial leases or covenants that run with the land) to...more

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DOJ Antitrust Division Reviewing Google-Wiz Deal

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The Justice Department’s Antitrust Division is reviewing Google’s planned $32 billion acquisition of Wiz Inc. to determine if the combination would illegally limit competition in the cloud security marketplace, according to a...more

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HK Competition Commission’s First Prosecution for Failing to Attend Interview

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In May 2025, for the first time since the enactment of the Competition Ordinance (Cap 619) (“Ordinance”), the Hong Kong Competition Commission (“Commission”) prosecuted a person for failing to attend an interview before the...more

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Constructing a Competitive Picture: CMA Launches New Market Study Into the Civil Engineering Sector

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The UK Competition and Markets Authority ("CMA") has recently announced the launch of a new market study into the civil engineering sector, which will focus on the supply of roads and railways (excluding HS2). This fits...more

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Cigna Sues Bristol Myers Squibb Alleging Scheme to Block Generic Drug

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Cigna filed a lawsuit on June 24 in Manhattan federal court accusing Bristol Myers Squibb of unlawfully blocking generic versions of its blood cancer drug, Pomalyst, from entering the market. The suit also names Celgene, a...more

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Labour markets: a first in France for standalone no-poach enforcement

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On 11 June 2025, the French Competition Authority (‘FCA’) fined three companies active in the engineering, technology consulting, and IT services sectors, Alten, Bertrandt, and Expleo, a total of €29.5 million for...more

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Merger Remedies Are Back on the Menu

The Trump administration’s recently announced settlements resolving the antitrust concerns in transactions mark a shift from the previous administration’s hostile rhetoric against settlements and remedies in merger cases. As...more

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European Commission Approves Liberty Media’s Acquisition of MotoGP

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On 23 June, the European Commission (“Commission”), following a Phase II investigation, unconditionally approved the acquisition by Liberty Media Corporation (“Liberty Media”) of Dorna Sports, S.L. (“Dorna”) (Case M.11539,...more

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Class Action Grounded: Court Finds Insufficient Factual Basis for Airline Capacity Constraint Suit

The Ontario Superior Court recently refused to certify a class action against four international airlines. The plaintiff alleged that the airlines conspired to constrain capacity for transborder travel between the United...more

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Goodwin Antitrust & Regulatory Shorts: 10 Key Takeaways From the European Commission’s Recent DMA Decisions Against Apple and Meta

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On 23 April 2025, the European Commission (the Commission) imposed its first ever fines under the Digital Markets Act (DMA). Apple and Meta were fined for failing to comply with their respective obligations under the DMA,...more

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Labour markets: two EC firsts in EU antitrust enforcement

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On 2 June 2025, the European Commission fined Delivery Hero and Glovo a total of EUR 329 million for participation in a cartel in the online food delivery sector. Notably, this marks not only the first time the Commission has...more

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