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DOJ Introduces New Twist in Algorithmic Collusion Cases

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It has been almost two years since private plaintiffs initiated the first antitrust class action cases against RealPage and owners and managers of multifamily apartment buildings, alleging collusion by algorithm in the use of...more

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In Landmark Decision, D.C. Federal Court Holds Google Maintained an Illegal Monopoly in Internet Search and Advertising Markets...

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On August 8, 2024, Judge Amit P. Mehta of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia issued his much anticipated and long-awaited opinion in the U.S. Department of Justice's (DOJ) case challenging Google's...more

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DOJ to Ramp up Antitrust Enforcement in Agriculture Sector

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On June 21, 2024, Deputy Assistant Attorney General Michael Kades announced the Department of Justice (DOJ) Antitrust Division’s plan to increase both civil and criminal antitrust enforcement in the agriculture sector. As...more

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[Webinar] Preparing for the Future of Health Care Antitrust Scrutiny - June 11th, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm PST

Now, more than ever, health care organizations are facing complex antitrust issues as their mergers/acquisitions, hiring, contracting and private funding are being scrutinized by the federal and state governments. Proper...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Merger Guidelines Provide Insight on DOJ and FTC Enforcement Priorities for 2024

On December 18, 2023, The Federal Trade Commission and Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice concluded a nearly two-year process of updating both the horizontal and vertical merger guidelines with the release of the...more

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Antitrust & Competition Life Sciences Year in Review 2023

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Despite increasingly aggressive rhetoric from the agencies, 2022 was largely characterized as “business as usual” in the antitrust world. In contrast, 2023 featured a significant step up in enforcement activity, including...more

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The DOJ and FTC Turn Their Attention to “Roll-Up” Acquisitions, Looking for Anticompetitive Transactions

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In a December 2023 statement, the White House detailed its intention to encourage antitrust enforcers to scrutinize anticompetitive acquisitions and anticompetitive practices in health care. Specifically, the statement...more

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Federal and State Authorities Bring Antitrust Enforcement to the Contingent Workforce Sector

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The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and now state attorneys general, have set their sights on staffing companies in their evolving efforts to examine labor markets through an antitrust lens....more

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DOJ Jettisons Its Last Criminal No-Poach Prosecution, but Antitrust Scrutiny of Labor Markets is Here to Stay

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Nearly seven years after first announcing its intent to criminally prosecute employers and individuals for anticompetitive conduct in labor markets, the Department of Justice Antitrust Division (DOJ or Division) voluntarily...more

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DOJ Seeks to Dismiss Its Last Pending No-Poach Criminal Action

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As we discussed earlier this year, the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) in recent years has brought numerous criminal prosecutions against companies accused of engaging in so-called “naked” no-poach agreements, i.e.,...more

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DOJ Provides More Specific Guidance About Criminal Enforcement of Section 2

Since the Antitrust Division's March 2022 announcement that it would once again consider and bring criminal charges for violations of Section 2 of the Sherman Act, DOJ has resisted calls for guidance about what conduct would...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

[Webinar] 2023 Health Care Enforcement Trends: Spotlight on Consumer Protection, Antitrust and Fraud - December 13th, 1:00 pm -...

In a recent speech, a senior official at the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division noted that “in U.S. antitrust enforcement and competition policy, there is no more important question than what can we do to safeguard...more

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DOJ Sues Analytics Company for Facilitating Information Exchange

In its first enforcement action based on the exchange of competitive information since withdrawing its information sharing guidance earlier this year, the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ’s) Antitrust Division filed a...more

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Beyond Civil Enforcement

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Jonathan Kanter, Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), recently delivered remarks at the annual Fordham Competition Law Institute’s International Antitrust Law and...more

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Aggressive FTC Enforcement Creates Challenges for Health Care Dealmaking

On Sept. 21, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) sued U.S. Anesthesia Partners, Inc. (USAP) and its private equity sponsor, Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe, asserting they crafted a “multi-year anticompetitive scheme” to...more

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DOJ Obtains First Divestitures in a Criminal Antitrust Case

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The U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division ("DOJ") recently resolved a criminal case with Teva Pharmaceuticals and Glenmark Pharmaceuticals via deferred prosecution agreements ("DPAs"), which include a novel remedy for...more

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DOJ Settles Criminal Antitrust Charges with Teva and Glenmark for $305 Million

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The Antitrust Division has been active – like any aggressive prosecution strategy, however, its results have been mixed.  Its record in criminal cases has taken serious hits – a stunning set of losses in the chicken...more

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DOJ Continues “Vibrant Section 8 Enforcement” to Purge Companies of Potentially Anticompetitive Interlocking Directorates

In March 2023, the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division (DOJ) announced that five additional directors have resigned from four corporate boards in response to the DOJ’s efforts to enforce prohibitions against so-called...more

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Second Annual Spring Enforcers Summit Kicks Off with Remarks from Jonathan Kanter

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Jonathan Kanter, Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division at the U.S. Department of Justice, kicked off the second annual Spring Enforcers Summit in Washington, DC, on March 27, 2023....more

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Global Cartel Enforcement Report 2022

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With a couple of notable exceptions, cartel fines were lower in most jurisdictions in 2022 than in the prior year—and well below historical norms. Fines in the United States—long the leader in cartel enforcement—were lower...more

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The DOJ Gets the Green Light in its Latest No-Poach Criminal Prosecution

It has been a tumultuous year for the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) and its recent no-poach criminal prosecution strategy. No-poach agreements, which are arrangements between companies that place restrictions on the hiring...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Is the DOJ’s First Criminal Monopolization Case in Decades More Bark Than Bite?

In October, the Department of Justice Antitrust Division announced its first criminal attempted monopolization charges in more than 40 years. In the case, U.S. v. Zito, Nathan Nephi Zito, the owner of a Montana paving...more

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Antitrust in focus - November 2022

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This newsletter is a summary of the antitrust developments we think are most interesting to your business. Andrew Fincham, counsel based in London, is our editor this month (learn more about Andrew in our Q&A feature at the...more

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Department of Justice Prevails and Blocks Penguin Random House Acquisition of Simon and Schuster – Parties Abandon Transaction

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The Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division continues its aggressive pursuit of enforcement and recently succeeded in blocking a controversial acquisition in the book selling market.  After a string of losses in the merger...more

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Antitrust Division Secures First Criminal Attempted Monopolization Guilty Plea in Decades

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In yet another indication of the renewed, aggressive antitrust enforcement program, the Justice Department recently announced the first attempted criminal monopolization case in decades — Nathan Nephi Zito, the president of a...more

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