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2024 M&A Report

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While the 2022 M&A market was buoyed by deal carryover from 2021 and more conducive market conditions in the first half of the year, the 2023 M&A market felt the impact of the Federal Reserve’s most aggressive interest rate...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Seven Directors Resign from Five Public Company Boards

Last month, we reported that the U. S. Department of Justice (DOJ) had threatened multiple public companies, private equity investors, and individuals with lawsuits for violating the ban on interlocking directorates under...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Be Prepared: Aggressive Antitrust Enforcement Is Back

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This summer has seen a flurry of bold antitrust announcements from the Biden administration. By issuing a sweeping executive order calling for numerous changes to antitrust enforcement and by naming progressive favorites and...more

A&O Shearman

What to Expect from the Biden Administration

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The inauguration of Joe Biden as President of the United States has set in motion a number of significant policy changes. In this panel discussion, our U.S. legal and policy specialists shared their insights on what our...more

Fenwick & West LLP

FTC: Lower HSR Thresholds for 2021

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The annual adjustment of the dollar thresholds for pre-acquisition filings under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act will take effect on March 4, 2021. All transactions closing on or after the effective date will be governed by the new...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

2021 Insights: Biden Administration Priorities

Biden Administration Signals Its Intention To Be Tougher on Corporate Crime - The Biden administration has signaled its intention to bolster enforcement of corporate crime. Corporations should expect DOJ policies and...more

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DOJ Antitrust Updates CID Approach: Three Quick Takeaways

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The DOJ’s Antitrust Division announced updates late last week to its Civil Investigative Demand (CID) form, explicitly codifying its intent to potentially use materials received in response to CIDs to launch secondary...more

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Financial Daily Dose 2.11.2020 | Top Story: DOJ Indicts Four from Chinese Army Over 2017 Equifax Cyberattack

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-The DOJ has announced charges against four members of China’s military related to the 2017 cyberattack on credit-reporting agency Equifax, the breach that revealed “trade secrets and the personal data of about 145 million...more

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Corporate Governance and Securities Law Update: Latin America Edition - February 2020

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US DEVELOPMENTS - SEC and NYSE/Nasdaq Developments - SEC Proposes Changes to Accredited Investor Definition to Broaden Access to Investments - In December 2019, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Four Compliance Insights for 2020 and Beyond

Compliance Convergence. In 2019 there were three significant releases of information by the federal government which directly impacted compliance professionals. Two came from the Department of Justice (DOJ) and one came from...more

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Your Daily Dose of Financial News

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The DC Circuit Court of Appeals dealt the DOJ a blow yesterday with a ruling that “rejected the government’s claim that a lower court had applied antitrust laws incorrectly in allowing the merger” between AT&T and Time Warner...more

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Your Daily Dose of Financial News

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In order to comply with European antitrust rulings against it earlier this year, Google announced that for the first time it will begin charging telephone handset manufacturers to install Gmail, Google Maps, and other popular...more

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Your Daily Dose of Financial News

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AT&T’s chief is weighing in the DOJ’s call to sell CNN in order to make its deal with Time Warner go through, and, as Randall sees it, “selling CNN makes no sense”....more

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Antitrust, Competition and Economic Regulation Quarterly Newsletter - Summer 2017

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Read the latest news on antitrust, competition and economic regulation (ACER) in this summer's edition of our quarterly ACER newsletter. ...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Update On Annual Adjustment To HSR Reporting Threshold And Recent Enforcement Actions Against Investors

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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently announced that the 2017 size-of-transaction threshold for reporting proposed mergers and acquisitions under Section 7A of the Clayton Act, as added by the Hart-Scott-Rodino...more

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Your Daily Dose of Financial News

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Judge John Bates of the US District Court for DC has blocked a proposed $37 billion mega-health-care-merger between Aetna and Humana, one of 2 major deals before the courts opposed by the Obama-era DOJ over antitrust...more

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A New Administration: A New FCPA Enforcement Regime?

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Now that the dust has settled on this turbulent campaign season, everyone is in the prediction game, especially when it comes to FCPA enforcement. It is easy to make predictions of significant change. It is easy to take...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Good-Bye to Arnold Palmer and Revolutionizing Compliance

The golfing world and the world of beverages lost one of their giants earlier this week. I, of course, refer to golfing and beverage legend Arnold Palmer. The legend around the beverage is that at dinner one evening Palmer...more

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