The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) recently published two notices amending (i) jurisdictional and exemption-related thresholds under, and (ii) maximum civil penalties for violations...
Last week, the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission separately filed complaints in federal district court seeking to unwind two different closed mergers which were not s...
The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) on Monday fined two investment funds, ESL Partners, L.P. (“ESL”) and ZAM Holdings, L.P. (“ZAM”), $525,000 and $275,000, respectively, for ...
The Federal Trade Commission today published a notice to amend the premerger notification rules under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as amended (“HSR Act”)....
We report three significant developments in antitrust law which have occurred since our last update in late April. As described below, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) recently ch...
There have been two significant antitrust law developments since our last update on March 13, 2006: a settlement of an action for alleged pre-merger “gun-jumping” activity, and a sett...
There have been a number of significant U.S. antitrust law developments already in 2006, including three important decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court and an initiative by the Federal Tra...
