Treating Compliance Like an Asset
Episode 376 -- DOJ's Unicat Settlement and the Future Look of Trade Enforcement Actions
First 100 Days of the New HSR Rules with Antitrust Partner Kara Kuritz
Daily Compliance News: June 23, 2025, The Is Walmart Cool Edition
Expert or Arbitrator? — PE Pathways Podcast
The LathamTECH Podcast — Getting Deals Done: Tackling Antitrust Challenges in Tech M&A
Podcast - Navigating the New Landscape of Private Equity in Healthcare
Inside a $175M Deal: Tim McLoughlin & Joshua Hayes Live From RDU Startup Week
Strategies for Business Resilience in Uncertain Times
Daily Compliance News: May 20, 2025, The What Could Go Wrong Edition
Business Better Podcast Episode: Bridging Campuses: Legal Insights on Education Industry Consolidation – Labor, Employment, and Benefits
Business Better Podcast Episode: Bridging Campuses: Legal Insights on Education Industry Consolidation – Privacy and Data Security
Daily Compliance News: April 25, 2025, The Trouble in Travel Edition
Daily Compliance News: April 24, 2025, The Made in Malaysia Edition
Business Better Podcast Episode: Bridging Campuses: Legal Insights on Education Industry Consolidation - Public Finance
Business Better Podcast Episode: Bridging Campuses: Legal Insights on Education Industry Consolidation – Mergers, Acquisitions, and Antitrust
Podcast - Navigating the Rapid Growth of the Med Spa Industry
Business Better Podcast Episode - An Introduction to Bridging Campuses: Legal Insights on Education Industry Consolidation
Daily Compliance News: March 28, 2025, The Cave or Go To Trial Edition
Antitrust Insights for Private Equity Navigating the New Administration's Policies — PE Pathways Podcast
ComplexDiscovery Editor’s Note: This report examines U.S. Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) filings through June 2025, which reached 1,519 transactions for the fiscal year to date, including 157 filings in June. Despite GDP contraction...more
Earlier this year, Washington state enacted a version of the nascent Uniform Antitrust Pre-Merger Notification Act (the Uniform Act), which is slated to take effect on July 27....more
Global investment in AI surged to approximately USD 252 billion in 2024, representing a thirteen-fold increase since 2014. As AI technologies become deeply embedded across key economic sectors such as finance, manufacturing,...more
À mesure que le gouvernement du Canada durcit son régime en matière de concurrence et réoriente son approche relative aux investissements étrangers, les conseillers juridiques en entreprise doivent composer avec un cadre...more
The FTC and DOJ under President Trump have each recently approved divestiture remedies for potentially anticompetitive mergers, signaling a significant departure from the practice of the Biden administration, which viewed...more
President Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” (OBBB) has been signed into law as of July 4, 2025, enacting widespread changes to tax policy, government spending, and social programs. With less focus on foreign trade and more...more
Silicon Valley is built on the promise of innovation, but for the better part of the past three years, the innovation economy has been in a coma. It all started with runaway inflation triggering the biggest hike in the price...more
President Donald Trump’s Executive Order 14173, “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity,” and subsequent guidance from the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...more
On April 4, Washington became the first state to enact the Uniform Antitrust Premerger Notification Act (APNA). Under the APNA, a person making a Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) filing on or after July 27, 2025 must provide a copy of...more
The French Competition Authority recently fined several companies for no-poach agreements, following similar action by the European Commission in the online food delivery sector. These decisions mark a sharp escalation in...more
Australia's transition from a voluntary to a mandatory merger regime has formally commenced. Mandatory approval of transactions that meet notification thresholds is required from 1 January 2026. To facilitate the transition,...more
2024 was a challenging year for M&A activity in the medical technology (“MedTech”) industry. Although some sectors experienced a rebound in deal volume, MedTech dealmakers were disproportionately affected by a difficult...more
The U.S. merger and acquisition landscape continues to demonstrate strategic resilience, with Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) premerger notification data through June 2025 revealing a market that prioritizes careful planning over...more
For twenty-five years prior to the Biden Administration, FTC and DOJ consent agreements have had a singular goal: to remedy the anticompetitive effects of proposed transactions. Under former Chair Khan, however, the FTC...more
Colorado’s antitrust landscape is undergoing a fundamental transformation — not just because of the sweeping legislative changes enacted in 2023, but also due to the assertive approach now being taken by the Colorado Attorney...more
Preferred equity investing is on the rise amid a search for yield and a fall in the number of high-quality assets coming to market. Here we explore the growing appeal of preferred equity instruments, outline the terms that...more
A out of the ordinary case: a breach of contract for the sale of a business (rather than the breakdown of negotiations), and more specifically for the transfer of control of the Primonial Group. Back in March 2022, the...more
On 2 July 2025, the Court of Justice of the European Union (General Court) clarified that simply "informing" the authorities of a proposed concentration isn’t enough to kick off the 15-working-days time limit under which a...more
On July 5, 2025, the FDIC finalized (and published in the Federal Register) its decision to rescind its 2024 Bank Merger Statement of Policy and reinstate its prior, long-standing version. We previously covered the proposed...more
A recent enforcement action by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is particularly noteworthy because of the theory of potential harm and the accepted remedy....more
Our Antitrust Team summarizes the most recent focus of European Competition Authorities on restrictive practices in labor markets....more
On June 17 and 18, DealFlow Events held its annual SPAC conference, a long-standing gathering of key players in the SPAC ecosystem. I was once again invited to speak at the event, which provided an opportunity to explore...more
Kilpatrick’s David Hughes and Jordan Goodman recently presented a “2025 SALT Summer Update” in association with AGN International - a worldwide association of separate and independent accounting and advisory businesses who...more
Professors Todd Haugh and Suneal Bedi of the Institute for Corporate Governance & Ethics at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University recently published a paper: Retheorizing Corporate Compliance. In it they argued...more
As Europe scrambles to build its military-industrial capabilities, sector dealmaking is on the rise. Here we explore how foreign investors are shaping their strategies to navigate sweeping reforms of regulatory frameworks...more