News & Analysis as of

Federal Trade Commission (FTC) › Digital Markets Strategy

BCLP

New Year, New UK Merger Control Thresholds – Key Aspects of the DMCC Go Live

BCLP on

Key competition law and digital markets aspects of the UK Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 (“DMCC”), enforced by the UK Competition and Markets Authority (“CMA”), came into force on 1 January 2025. You can...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Can Privacy Be Bought? How Scrutiny of Meta’s Subscription Model Has Wider Implications – PART I

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on

In November of 2023, Meta launched a service in the European Union that allowed users to utilize the Facebook and Instagram platforms “ad free” for a monthly fee. The subscription service was meant to address regulatory...more

Hinch Newman LLP

FCC Announces Final Rule Reflecting Changes to TCPA Revocation of Consent

Hinch Newman LLP on

On March 5, 2024, the Federal Communications Commission announced that it has adopted new rules and codified previously adopted protections that make it simpler for consumers to revoke consent to unwanted robocalls and...more

Perkins Coie

Great Cancellations: Kentucky’s New Subscription Law and FTC’s Expansion of the Negative Option Rule

Perkins Coie on

As the subscription economy continues to grow towards a predicted $1.5 trillion by 2025, the number of laws and regulations with which a business offering subscriptions must comply also continues to grow. The focus of these...more

BakerHostetler

Report from the 2023 ABA Antitrust Section Annual Conference - UK, EU, and Canadian developments

BakerHostetler on

The recent annual ABA Antitrust Spring Meeting in Washington, D.C., once again brought together enforcers and counsel from around the world to discuss the hottest topics in global antitrust enforcement. We provide some of the...more

BCLP

Theories of Harm: Common Ownership - where the Greeks walk the world follows?

BCLP on

In this article we discuss the evolving global attention towards a less common theory of harm: common ownership. We conclude by assessing the notably bullish approach taken by the Hellenic Competition Commission (the “HCC”),...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

M&A in 2022 and Trends for 2023

Morrison & Foerster LLP on

Following a year of unprecedented M&A deal activity, 2022 saw the global M&A market settle back into a more familiar pace. The year finished 38.8% lower than 2021’s record level, but only 9.3% lower than 2015-2019 averages,...more

Mintz - Antitrust Viewpoints

FTC Chair Khan Gives a Look Behind the Curtain of United States Merger Reform

Mintz - Antitrust Viewpoints on

In remarks given last week at the 2022 International Competition Network Conference in Berlin, Germany, FTC Chair Lina Khan gave a keynote address in which she described the “broad and sweeping reassessment” of United States...more

Fenwick & West LLP

Historic Shift by the FTC on Vertical Merger Review, with More to Come

Fenwick & West LLP on

In a departure from past enforcement priorities, the Federal Trade Commission has challenged three vertical mergers over the past year, leading the parties to abandon two of the three deals...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Antitrust M&A Snapshot - February 2021

McDermott Will & Emery on

OCTOBER - DECEMBER 2020 UPDATE - UNITED STATES - Despite initial obstacles because of the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020 rounded out to be the busiest year for mergers and acquisitions (M&A) enforcement in the United States...more

10 Results
 / 
View per page
Page: of 1

"My best business intelligence, in one easy email…"

Your first step to building a free, personalized, morning email brief covering pertinent authors and topics on JD Supra:
Sign up Log in
*By using the service, you signify your acceptance of JD Supra's Privacy Policy.
- hide
- hide