The COMPETE Act will extend the scope of California’s Cartwright Act beyond joint conduct to unilateral conduct. The law does not permit private enforcement but may still provide state ...
Davis Polk partner and Washington DC office head Jarrett Arp, partner Tatiana Martins and counsel Caroline Ziser Smith served as editors of Global Competition Review’s Market Review: Ca...
Davis Polk partner Sheila Adams James and counsel Gil Ohana and Caroline Ziser Smith authored “AB 325 and SB 763: Amending the Cartwright Act to address algorithmic price fixing” in t...
Two states have passed new laws that make it illegal in certain circumstances to use pricing algorithms that include competitor information as inputs. California Assembly Bill 325 applie...
The Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division, together with the U.S. Postal Service, has announced a whistleblower rewards program, its first ever for criminal antitrust cases.
On March 18, 2025, the FTC’s two Democratic commissioners were dismissed. The dismissals have sparked additional debate over the constitutionality of independent agencies and increase t...
As the first month of the Trump administration comes to a close, we provide updates on key developments in Trump 2.0 antitrust enforcement, particularly focused on merger review. Early h...
On January 7, 2025, the Federal Trade Commission announced the imposition of a record $5.6 million “gun-jumping” fine in connection with a 2021/22 merger of oil producers XCL Resource...
The Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice has updated its 2019 Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs in Criminal Antitrust Investigations. The changes bring the guidance ...
The DOJ, FDIC and OCC have revised their bank merger review standards. The new standards are a major shift for bank M&A and will require a careful, detailed analysis to evaluate the viabi...
