Thirteen years into China’s antitrust regime, Chinese antitrust enforcement reflects both Western trends, including a focus on technology companies and more aggressive enforcement, and ...
Amid an uptick in merger filings, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), led by Chair Lina Khan, and the Antitrust Division of Department of Justice (DOJ), led by Assistant Attorney General ...
Today, the Federal Trade Commission announced revised Hart-Scott-Rodino Act (HSR) reporting thresholds. Under the new thresholds, a transaction will be reportable only if, as a result of ...
The U.S. antitrust agencies report that merger enforcement activity increased during 2020, even as reportable transactions decreased from 2019. In related statements, FTC Democratic Commi...
Davis Polk partner Ronan Harty and associates Nathan Kiratzis and Anna Kozlowski served as editors of Global Competition Review’s Merger Remedies Guide – Fourth Edition. The team also...
Articles & Books
Lexology’s Getting The Deal Through: Merger Control, 26th Edition
Davis Polk partner Ronan Harty and counsel Mary Marks authored the United States chapter in the twenty-sixth edition of Getting The Deal Through: Merger Control. The book provides interna...
The Federal Trade Commission has announced that a “tidal wave” of HSR filings has strained its capacity to review mergers, and that, for transactions the FTC is not able to investigat...
President Biden signed an ambitious Executive Order on July 9, 2021, which pushes several federal agencies to advance competition principles in a range of economic sectors, and establishe...
As bipartisan support for antitrust reform gains steam, legislative proposals from both sides of the aisle have proliferated. To date, Congress has advanced to a vote only relatively mode...
In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court held in AMG Capital Management, LLC v. FTC that the FTC does not have authority to seek disgorgement or restitution under Section 13(b) of the F...
