The FTC and DOJ recently announced the first settlements of merger enforcement actions reached under the second Trump administration. These actions follow comments from leadership at the ...
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...
Yesterday, the FTC issued a final rule making significant changes to the content of HSR filings. The new rule will require filing parties to provide substantially more documents and info...
On March 5, 2024, the FTC, the DOJ and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced that they are seeking public comment on private equity investment in the healthcare secto...
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced revised Hart-Scott-Rodino Act (HSR) reporting thresholds and filing fee amounts, up to a $2.335 million fee for the largest deals. Under the ...
On December 18, 2023, the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission issued the final version of their revised merger guidelines, which include modest changes from the agencie...
Last week, the FTC alleged that a private equity firm undertook a “multi-year anticompetitive scheme” to dominate Texas anesthesiology practices through: (1) “serial” acquisitions...
Today, the Senate confirmed Alvaro Bedoya as the fifth FTC Commissioner, reinstating the agency’s Democratic majority and setting the stage for increased antitrust enforcement and polic...
DOJ and FTC leaders recently discussed several key merger enforcement initiatives, which reflect a continued focus on aggressive policing of proposed transactions. Agency leaders appear ...
At last week’s Enforcers Summit, leaders of various U.S. and international antitrust enforcement agencies set forth their enforcement priorities. The new heads of the U.S. antitrust age...
