A federal district court in Texas yesterday vacated FTC rules that went into effect last year revising the information parties must submit to the antitrust agencies in merger filings subm...
Three merger settlements announced across industrial sectors last week demonstrate that the U.S. antitrust agencies’ stated openness to structural remedies is real. Transacting parties ...
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...
Late last week, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced a settlement in UnitedHealth’s proposed acquisition of Amedisys that imposed broad divestitures and, notably, a $1.1 million ci...
Washington State and Colorado recently passed laws requiring merging parties to notify the state attorney general regarding certain transactions reportable under federal antitrust law. Th...
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.
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 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...
