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This edition of the Private Company Report highlights critical updates and regulatory changes affecting private companies, including the new beneficial ownership reporting requirements under the Corporate Transparency Act,...more
Election year is here, and it comes as no surprise that federal agencies are rapidly issuing new rules and guidelines ahead of November, although there has been a very unusual number of developments from federal agencies that...more
The Federal Trade Commission and United States Department of Justice recently released new guidance on preservation of electronically stored information from ephemeral messaging tools and collaboration platforms like Slack,...more
The Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Competition and the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division earlier this year released a joint statement reiterating document preservation obligations for companies and...more
On January 26, 2024, the DOJ and FTC announced that they were updating the language in their "standard preservation letters and specifications for all second requests, voluntary access letters, and compulsory legal process,...more
The following newsletter provides a roundup summarizing enforcement actions, guidance, rulemakings, and other public statements taken by a federal and/or state financial services regulatory agency, specifically focusing on:...more
Editor's Note The following newsletter provides a roundup summarizing enforcement actions, guidance, rulemakings, and other public statements taken by a federal and/or state financial services regulatory agency, specifically...more
On July 19, 2023, the U.S. Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission released a draft update of the Merger Guidelines and invited public comments. If adopted, the Proposed Guidelines would represent a substantial...more
On June 29, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced the publication of long-awaited updates to its Endorsement Guides (Guides), which provide the agency’s official guidance to businesses and other advertisers on...more
Businesses that use and publish endorsements, reviews, or testimonials should be aware of the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) updated Endorsement Guides and proposed new rule banning fake reviews and testimonials. Here’s...more
On July 19, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ) (each an Agency, and collectively, the Agencies) released a long-awaited draft version of revised Merger...more
On July 19, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice released a draft update of the Merger Guidelines. The draft Guidelines describe how the agencies “review...mergers and acquisitions to determine...more
On July 19, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice, Antitrust Division (together, the “Agencies”) announced new draft Merger Guidelines (“Draft Guidelines”), which detail the analysis the Agencies will...more
On July 19, 2023, the FTC and the DOJ (collectively, the agencies) jointly released new draft merger guidelines. The agencies assert that the proposed guidelines will help them better assess the impact of proposed mergers...more
On July 18, 2023, the DOJ Antitrust Division and the Federal Trade Commission released new Guidelines detailing the principles that they intend to apply when reviewing mergers. The Guidelines, issued in draft form for public...more
On July 19, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) and Department of Justice (“DOJ”) released a long-awaited draft update to their Merger Guidelines. This draft is the latest entry in a long series of guidelines that...more
The lead-up to the July Fourth holiday was a busy time for endorsement and testimonial watchers—the FTC issued (i) its final, updated Guides to the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising, (ii) an updated version...more
The Federal Trade Commission’s Endorsement Guides were first enacted in 1980 and amended in 2009. The Guides provide guidance to businesses and others to ensure that advertising using endorsements or testimonials is...more
“Precise Geolocation” has become a hot button issue in the privacy world with recent data privacy laws seeking to regulate the collection and processing of such information, including in California and Virginia. The...more
On February 3, 2023, the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ) withdrew its nearly 30-year-old guidance on information exchanges in the healthcare industry, including the "safety zone" for benchmarking that...more
Signaling a renewed focus on consumer protection in the health claims space, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) has revamped its 1998 guidance titled Dietary Supplements: An Advertising Guide for Industry and extended the...more
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued long-awaited guidance regarding its interpretation of the scope of Section 5 of the FTC Act on November 10, 2022. The updated guidance expands what the FTC may consider to be “unfair”...more
To encourage transparency and compliance with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Act and address current practices and trends, the FTC first published the Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in...more
Last week, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) released two guidance documents to aid in compliance with its Health Breach Notification Rule (“the Rule”), which requires “vendors of personal health records” or “PHR related...more
As 2021 comes to a close, Big Molecule Watch reviews the top five biosimilar regulatory developments of the year... President Biden Signs Orange Book Transparency Act - In January, we reported that President Biden...more