Morrison Foerster’s State and Local Government Task Force is pleased to provide our bimonthly newsletter summarizing some of the most important and interesting developments from state attorneys general (State AGs) across the...more
1/9/2025
/ American Bar Association (ABA) ,
Artificial Intelligence ,
Biometric Information ,
Class Action ,
Competition ,
Data Privacy ,
Diversity ,
Environmental Social & Governance (ESG) ,
Facial Recognition Technology ,
FCC ,
Investment Management ,
PFAS ,
Popular ,
Privacy Laws ,
Robocalling ,
State Attorneys General ,
Telecommunications ,
Textiles ,
The Clayton Act ,
Trump Administration
Despite the summer doldrums, cartel enforcers around the world had several notable enforcement actions and, perhaps more importantly, signaled a busy fall and winter. In the United States, the Department of Justice’s...more
11/1/2024
/ Algorithms ,
Antitrust Division ,
Bid Rigging ,
Cartels ,
Competition ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Dawn Raids ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
EU ,
Healthcare ,
Italy ,
Mexican Economic Competition Commission (Cofece) ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Philippines ,
Popular ,
Price-Fixing ,
Procurement Collusion Strike Force ,
Singapore ,
Wage-Fixing
Despite the summer doldrums, cartel enforcers around the world had several notable enforcement actions and, perhaps more importantly, signaled a busy fall and winter. In the United States, the Department of Justice’s...more
10/22/2024
/ Algorithms ,
Antitrust Division ,
Antitrust Violations ,
Belgian Competition Authority ,
Bid Rigging ,
Cartels ,
Competition ,
Construction Project ,
Dawn Raids ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Enforcement ,
EU ,
Healthcare ,
Hedge Funds ,
Mexican Economic Competition Commission (Cofece) ,
No-Poaching ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Philippines ,
Popular ,
Price-Fixing ,
Procurement Collusion Strike Force ,
Sherman Act ,
Software ,
State Attorneys General ,
Wage-Fixing
The Biden Administration recently convened the first meeting of its Strike Force on Unfair and Illegal Pricing (Strike Force), an interagency initiative announced in March 2024 to “root out and stop illegal corporate behavior...more
8/22/2024
/ Anti-Competitive ,
Biden Administration ,
Department of Agriculture ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Department of Transportation (DOT) ,
FCC ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Healthcare Fraud ,
Nursing Homes ,
Popular ,
Private Equity ,
Supply Chain ,
Unfair or Deceptive Trade Practices ,
Unfair Pricing
As anticipated, cartel enforcement is ramping up at the start of 2024 and investigations relating to artificial intelligence (AI) are taking center stage. Leadership of both the broader Department of Justice (DOJ) and the...more
4/4/2024
/ Antitrust Division ,
Antitrust Violations ,
Artificial Intelligence ,
Bid Rigging ,
Cartels ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Data Preservation ,
Dawn Raids ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Enforcement Actions ,
EU ,
European Commission ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) ,
Merger Controls ,
Mexican Economic Competition Commission (Cofece) ,
Non-Compete Agreements ,
Popular ,
Price-Fixing ,
Pricing ,
Software ,
UK ,
UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)
The year 2023 ended with a bang in the cartel space, with a federal court of appeals upending what was long believed to be the scope of conduct that should be considered per se under the Sherman Act. The new year, 2024,...more
1/11/2024
/ Agricultural Sector ,
Algorithms ,
Artificial Intelligence ,
Audio Recording ,
Bid Rigging ,
Cartels ,
Competition ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Criminal Antitrust Litigation ,
Dawn Raids ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
European Commission ,
Healthcare ,
Italy ,
Korea ,
No-Poaching ,
Per Se Rule ,
Popular ,
Poultry ,
Price-Fixing ,
Procurement Collusion Strike Force ,
Self-Reporting ,
Sherman Act ,
Turkey ,
UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) ,
Wiretapping
The year 2023 was a busy one for regulatory, compliance, and enforcement developments in the healthcare and life sciences industries, and 2024 promises to be even busier. We tapped MoFo’s Life Sciences + Healthcare Compliance...more
1/10/2024
/ Anti-Kickback Statute ,
Antitrust Violations ,
Artificial Intelligence ,
CDRH ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Security ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Enforcement ,
Enforcement Actions ,
False Claims Act (FCA) ,
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ,
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
Healthcare Fraud ,
Life Sciences ,
Medical Devices ,
OPDP ,
Popular ,
Ransomware ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
At this mid-point of 2023, and now several months on from the ABA’s Spring Antitrust conference, there have been several notable developments concerning cartel enforcement, as new leadership settles in at the U.S. Department...more
7/12/2023
/ Abuse of Dominance ,
Antitrust Provisions ,
Bid Rigging ,
Cartels ,
Collusion ,
Competition ,
Dawn Raids ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
EU ,
Federal Contractors ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Instant Messaging Apps ,
Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC) ,
Labor Law Violations ,
Military Contracts ,
No-Poaching ,
Olympics ,
Policy Statement ,
Popular ,
Price-Fixing ,
Procurement Collusion Strike Force ,
Red Bull ,
Wage-Fixing ,
Whistleblowers
On June 3, 2022, Andrew Forman, Deputy Assistant Attorney General of the United States Department of Justice Antitrust Division (DOJ) publicly stated that the DOJ is considering “enhancing antitrust enforcement around a...more
6/22/2022
/ Acquisitions ,
Antitrust Division ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Executive Orders ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Healthcare ,
Home Health Care ,
Joe Biden ,
Monopolization ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Popular ,
Premerger Notifications ,
Private Equity
Since the last edition of the QCC, there has been a series of dramatic developments in the criminal antitrust enforcement space in the U.S. from the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division (Division)....more
5/10/2022
/ Anti-Competitive ,
Antitrust Division ,
Antitrust Provisions ,
Antitrust Violations ,
Belgium ,
Bid Rigging ,
Buy-Side Trading ,
Canada ,
Canadian Competition Act ,
Construction Contracts ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
EU ,
Grand Juries ,
Health Care Providers ,
Home Health Care ,
Leniency Programs ,
Monopolization ,
No-Poaching ,
OECD ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Popular ,
Price-Fixing ,
Procurement Collusion Strike Force ,
Reimbursements ,
Romania ,
Sherman Act ,
South Korea ,
Supply Chain ,
Vaccinations ,
Wage-Fixing
Morrison & Foerster’s Automotive Task Force represents automotive industry clients in their most significant legal matters.
We have tapped our multidisciplinary Automotive Task Force to get their opinions on what is likely...more
2/23/2022
/ Anti-Bribery ,
Antitrust Division ,
Automotive Industry ,
Corruption ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Environmental Social & Governance (ESG) ,
Export Controls ,
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) ,
Initial Public Offering (IPO) ,
International Trade Commission (ITC) ,
Popular ,
Sanctions ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs)
As the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak continues to unfold, entire governments, economies, businesses, and countries are being adversely affected. The World Health Organization reports that there are “still many...more
We summarize below some of the most significant cartel enforcement developments from U.S. and other antitrust enforcers, including policy shifts, investigations, case filings, and court rulings. This report summarizes...more
3/19/2019
/ Antitrust Division ,
Bid Rigging ,
Cartels ,
Competition ,
Criminal Prosecution ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Enforcement Actions ,
EU ,
Guilty Pleas ,
Italy ,
Japan ,
Libor ,
No-Poaching ,
Popular ,
Sports