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One hundred days ago, sweeping revisions to the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act Premerger Notification Form took effect. The revisions have significantly increased the time and effort to prepare HSR filings and have led filing parties...more
On February 10, Vinson & Elkins LLP’s Hill Wellford, co-chair of the firm’s antitrust group, and Kara Kuritz, an antitrust transactional partner, presented a PLI briefing “Antitrust in Transactions.” During their talk about...more
Davies recently submitted comments in response to consultations initiated by the Canadian Competition Bureau’s November 7, 2024 Discussion Paper on the Bureau’s review of its Merger Enforcement Guidelines (MEGs) to better...more
The initial days of 2025 ushered in a trifecta of significant antitrust updates for dealmakers. First, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently announced its annual adjustment to the monetary thresholds that apply to...more
On January 10, 2025, the Federal Trade Commission announced revised jurisdictional thresholds and a revised filing fee schedule under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 (“HSR Act”). Also on January 10,...more
On October 24, 2024, the District Court for the Southern District of New York granted the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”)’s request for a preliminary injunction to halt the merger between Tapestry, Inc. (“Tapestry”) and...more
State-level oversight of M&A and other strategic transactions involving healthcare is continuing to expand into new markets and impact growth strategies. The interest and need for healthcare services transactions in the...more
The Israel Competition Authority’s Director General recently announced that, subject to a hearing, she intends to rule that Strauss and Wyler Farm violated the Economic Competition Law and implemented a merger that could harm...more
The FTC and DOJ’s proposed revised merger guidelines signal the Biden administration’s continued aggressive antitrust enforcement stance even as healthcare industry participants continue to seek to overcome the effects of...more
In a deal market as uncertain as this one, we have seen transactional lawyers more frequently resorting to pushing what are known as “hell or high water” clauses - clauses that obligate parties to take “any and all...more
On July 18, 2022, the long-awaited Digital Markets Act (DMA) received the final approval of the EU's co-legislators. The DMA will impose stringent far-reaching obligations on the largest digital platforms: the "gatekeepers."...more
Quick Read - - The EU’s jurisdiction to review mergers is no longer linked to notification. This is a big change and sharply reduces parties’ ability to predict antitrust hurdles to closing based on notification thresholds. ...more
On October 25, 2021, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released its “Statement on Use of Prior Approval Provisions in Merger Orders” (the Statement). The Statement announces two material changes in the agency’s merger...more
In re Anthem-Cigna Merger Litigation, C.A. No. 2017-0114- JTL (Del. Ch. August 31, 2020) - This action arose out of a failed merger transaction involving the second and third largest health insurers in the United States,...more
February 27, 2019 On February 26, 2019, a panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit unanimously affirmed the district court’s denial of a Department of Justice (DOJ) bid to permanently...more
While federal officials have stated their intent to persist in questioning vertical relationships that they hypothesize cause downstream economic effects on product flow and prices, a recent loss by the Department of Justice...more
Following a six-week trial, federal Judge Richard Leon of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia recently approved AT&T’s 85-billion-dollar acquisition of Time Warner Inc. AT&T Inc. (along with its subsidiary,...more
Recent decisions outside of the health care industry—including the defeated efforts (at least at the district court level) to block the merger of AT&T and Time Warner and the recent decision from the Second Circuit upholding...more
On June 12, 2018, after a six-week trial, U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon denied the U.S. Department of Justice’s request to block AT&T Inc.’s $85 billion acquisition of Time Warner Inc., one of the most high-profile...more
On June 12, 2018, following a six-week-long bench trial, Judge Richard J. Leon of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that AT&T’s proposed acquisition of Time Warner does not violate the...more
Last week a Delaware federal district court unsealed its earlier opinion blocking the merger of two radioactive waste disposal companies. The court rejected the parties’ failing firm defense, citing the merger agreement’s “no...more
The District of Columbia federal court recently ruled that a proposed $37 billion merger between health insurance giants Aetna and Humana cannot proceed, granting the US Department of Justice’s bid to block the combination on...more
In a recent action raising the issue of the nature of a merger party’s obligation to take steps necessary to clear antitrust regulatory hurdles “as promptly as reasonably practicable,” Alere, Inc. sued Abbott Laboratories in...more