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Mayer Brown

Five Must-Watch Antitrust Storylines for 2025

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Many businesses and organizations are in the unique position of having already observed four years of antitrust enforcement under President-elect Donald J. Trump. That, plus the well-publicized records of his announced...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Shaping Consumer Protection: What to Expect from Incoming Chairman Ferguson's FTC

On December 10, 2024, President-elect Trump named FTC Commissioner Andrew Ferguson as next Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), replacing Chair Lina Khan on January 20, 2025. As a Senate-approved sitting...more

Epstein Becker & Green

Leadership Changes and a New Direction at the FTC

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On December 10, 2024, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump announced he would appoint current Commissioner Andrew Ferguson to lead the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and nominate Mark Meador to fill the seat of outgoing Chair...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

CMA’s Growth Agenda: UK Competition Authority May Loosen Position on Merger Remedies

The United Kingdom’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) will, in the new year, launch a review of its approach to merger remedies which could lead to a shift away from its long-standing preference for structural...more

Allen Matkins

Bill Would Require Filing Of HSR Notifications With California's Attorney General

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In September, the Uniform Law Commission adopted the Uniform Antitrust Pre-Merger Notification Act.  The ULC does not, of course, actually enact any laws, it merely drafts and promotes laws that it would like to see made...more

King & Spalding

The Trifecta: What to Expect from a Second Trump Administration and a Republican Congress

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Republicans have swept the 2024 elections, returning Donald Trump to the White House as the 47th President and flipping the Senate to a Republican majority. Having narrowly maintained control of the House of Representatives,...more

Stoel Rives LLP

DOJ Antitrust Division’s Updated Guidance on Evaluating Corporate Compliance Programs

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The U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division recently updated its Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs in Criminal Antitrust Investigations (the “Guidance”). This Guidance updates the 2019 guidance to federal...more

Epstein Becker & Green

FTC Debuts New Comment Portal

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At an Open Commission Meeting on November 14, 2024, Federal Trade Commission (FTC) staff gave a presentation on the FTC’s new online merger portal, which provides a way for members of the public to comment on proposed...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Antitrust Developments to Monitor Under the Next Trump Administration

In the coming months, the President-elect will appoint, and the Senate will confirm, a new Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Department of Justice (DOJ) Antitrust Division and a new Commissioner to fill a slot at...more

A&O Shearman

Antitrust in focus - November 2024

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New U.S. merger control filing forms to take effect in February 2025 - Following publication in the Federal Register, the new Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) premerger notification forms will become effective on February 10, 2025....more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

New UK Competition Regime Comes Into Force 1 January 2025

The United Kingdom’s (UK’s) Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 (the Act) expands the Competition and Markets Authority’s (CMA’s) jurisdiction in merger control, regulates major tech platforms with “strategic...more

A&O Shearman

Shifting sands? U.K. CMA to review approach to behavioral merger remedies

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Chief executive of the U.K. Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), Sarah Cardell, has announced that the authority will launch a review of its approach to merger remedies in early 2025. Most notably, this will include a...more

White & Case LLP

Australia enacts mandatory merger control law

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Australia’s mandatory suspensory merger control regime will come into force on 1 January 2026 following the passing of legislation by both houses of Parliament, representing a major shift for businesses, their advisors and...more

Barnea Jaffa Lande & Co.

Israel Competition Commissioner imposes an unprecedented pecuniary sanction for merger "gun-jumping"

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The Director-General of the Israel Competition Authority recently imposed a pecuniary sanction of an unprecedented amount, approximately ILS 111 million, on Strauss and Wyler Farm. This was due to what the Director-General...more

K&L Gates LLP

Competition and Consumer Law Round-Up

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What's Inside this Issue? This edition of the K&L Gates Competition & Consumer Law Round-Up provides a summary of recent and significant updates from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), as well as...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

In Case You Missed It: The ABA Antitrust Section's Fall Forum

On November 14, 2024, the American Bar Association (ABA) held its annual Antitrust Fall Forum in Washington, D.C., co-chaired this year by Wilson Sonsini partner Taylor M. Owings. The Forum was a chance for the antitrust bar...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

European Antitrust Bimonthly Bulletin – September/October 2024

The "European Antitrust Bimonthly Bulletin" breaks down the major antitrust developments in Europe during the past two months into concise and actionable takeaways....more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

Five Predictions for Antitrust Enforcement in the Second Trump Administration

Forecasting the future is always a perilous exercise, but here's what my antitrust crystal ball tells me about antitrust enforcement in the second Trump administration....more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Whither Antitrust Enforcement Under Trump 2.0?

With only a week having passed since the 2024 Presidential Election, we find ourselves awash in speculation about what a Second Trump Administration (Trump 2.0) portends for the United States and for the world. This client...more

TransPerfect Legal

Overcoming Challenges in Merger Clearance: Case Studies and Solutions

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During the fifth annual Antitrust Clearance and Merger Enforcement Conference (ACME), leading antitrust practitioners Franco Castelli, Counsel, Antitrust from Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz; Jeane Thomas, Partner at Crowell &...more

Morgan Lewis

New Study Signals Potentially Significant Changes to California’s Antitrust Laws

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In response to the state legislature’s 2022 directive for the California Law Revision Commission (CLRC or Commission) to study potential reforms to the state’s antitrust law (i.e., the Cartwright Act), the CLRC launched Study...more

WilmerHale

The UK-EU Competition Cooperation Agreement: Closer Apart?

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At the end of 2020, the United Kingdom (UK) and the European Union (EU) signed the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA), which both parties then ratified in 2021. As to antitrust cooperation, the agreement emphasized...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

New HSR Form Brings Significant Impact for Deals: A Deep Dive into What Has Changed

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On October 10, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Department of Justice (DOJ) (the Antitrust Agencies) finalized and released significant updates to the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) premerger notification form. The updates are...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

New HSR Rules Take Effect on Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2025

As we reported in October, the Federal Trade Commission, with the concurrence of the United States Department of Justice Antitrust Division, have issued revised Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) premerger notification rules. These...more

Dechert LLP

Global Regulatory Headwinds: PE Firms Prepare for Increased Antitrust Oversight

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66% of PE firms globally expect increased scrutiny from antitrust, FDI and other regulatory authorities to have a negative impact on their dealmaking plans over the next 12 months. Rising regulatory scrutiny continues to...more

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