Business Better Podcast Episode: Bridging Campuses: Legal Insights on Education Industry Consolidation – Mergers, Acquisitions, and Antitrust
Examining E-Discovery in Competition Law
Background Note: The Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Act established the Premerger Notification Program, requiring certain mergers and acquisitions to be reported to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Justice...more
States’ merger review and enforcement initiatives continue to expand as Washington adopts the nation’s first “mini-HSR” rule. On April 4, 2025, the State of Washington passed the Antitrust Premerger Notification Act...more
In the months before the 2024 presidential election, we reported on the stated antitrust agendas of candidates Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. Now a few months into the second Trump administration, we review recent...more
On April 4, 2025, Washington became the first state to enact the Uniform Antitrust Premerger Notification Act (Model Act), requiring parties to certain notifiable transactions under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust...more
This episode is part of our “Bridging Campuses: Legal Insights on Education Industry Consolidation” series, where we discuss trends in consolidation and closures in higher education, and outline common characteristics of...more
The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) on March 12, 2025 launched a review to assess how it approaches remedies in merger control cases and has published a mergers charter, which sets out clear principles and...more
Narrower scope, clearer lines: In a string of rulings, the German Federal Cartel Office (“FCO”) has seen its broader interpretation of the transaction value threshold curtailed. These decisions should, for the time being,...more
As CERAWeek begins in Houston, dealmakers in the energy sector will surely be asking how the second Trump Administration antitrust enforcers will treat energy deals. As a prelude, no industry has a longer history with...more
The UK government recently issued its draft strategic steer to the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), in which it sets out its expectations for the CMA’s enforcement actions in relation to the government’s primary...more
We’re excited to be visiting Sydney next week to catch up with competition law colleagues on our way to the ABA 2025 Asia-Pacific Conference. This is a time of unprecedented activity and change in antitrust law and policy...more
The United Arab Emirates (“UAE”) recently announced a turnover-based threshold for merger control filings that supplements the Federal Decree-Law No. 36 of 2023 (“UAE 2023 Competition Law”). The 2023 law stated that a...more
This year’s M&A Report offers a detailed review of the M&A market and outlook, including a breakdown by various geographies and industry sectors. We examine what might be in store with antitrust and CFIUS under the Trump...more
China's State Council issued new Anti-Monopoly Guidelines for the Pharmaceutical Sector (the "Guidelines") effective January 24, 2025. The Guidelines provide a comprehensive framework for the State Administration for Market...more
By means of Resolution No. 81005 of 2024, the Superintendence of Industry and Commerce (Superintendencia de Industria y Comercio or SIC) of Colombia established the new economic thresholds that will govern the notification of...more
The California Law Revision Commission (CLRC or Commission) staff on January 13, 2025 published its recommendations to the Commission regarding potential reforms to the state’s existing antitrust laws....more
On December 13, 2024, Judge Robert E. Payne of the Eastern District of Virginia, in a long-running private action that had previously found a consummated merger to be unlawful, overruled defendant’s objections to the required...more
The ECJ’s Illumina/Grail judgment has curtailed the Commission’s direct oversight of certain transactions, thereby elevating the need for national "call-in" powers. These call-in regimes, which are proliferating both inside...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
Welcome to the January issue of Blakes Competitive Edge, a monthly publication of the Blakes Competition, Antitrust & Foreign Investment group. Blakes Competitive Edge provides an overview of recent developments in Canadian...more
What antitrust enforcement will look like during a second Trump administration is, like antitrust law, complicated. Notions that Republicans are pro-business and therefore will take a laissez-faire approach to antitrust...more
Australia’s mandatory suspensory merger control regime will come into force on 1 January 2026 following the passing of legislation by both houses of Parliament, representing a major shift for businesses, their advisors and...more
The Director-General of the Israel Competition Authority recently imposed a pecuniary sanction of an unprecedented amount, approximately ILS 111 million, on Strauss and Wyler Farm. This was due to what the Director-General...more
In his return to the White House, President-elect Trump inherits an aggressive antitrust enforcement regime from the Biden administration – an enforcement regime that was born and developed in many respects during Trump’s...more
Antitrust has taken center stage under the Biden Administration, and the Food and Beverage industry has been one of the main targets of increased enforcement by the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) and Department of Justice,...more
Welcome to Juntos, our bulletin that explores antitrust and competition developments across US-Latin America. In this issue, we look at key headlines from throughout 2024....more