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Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Merger Guidelines Provide Insight on DOJ and FTC Enforcement Priorities for 2024

On December 18, 2023, The Federal Trade Commission and Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice concluded a nearly two-year process of updating both the horizontal and vertical merger guidelines with the release of the...more

Husch Blackwell LLP

New Draft Merger Guidelines Complicate Deal Outlook

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Consistent with the Biden administration’s whole-of-government approach to address perceived consolidation in a variety of industries, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Antitrust Division...more

Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider LLP

Axinn Antitrust Insight: New Proposed Merger Guidelines Reflect DOJ and FTC’s Anti-merger Policy, Signal Continued Aggressive...

The U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division (DOJ), and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) (and together, the “Agencies”) have released long-anticipated draft merger guidelines (the “2023 Draft Guidelines”) that...more

Stinson LLP

FTC and DOJ Propose Overhaul of Merger Guidelines

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On July 19, 2023, The Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice (the agencies) released a draft update of the Merger Guidelines that would significantly overhaul how the agencies review mergers and acquisitions....more

Stevens & Lee

FTC and DOJ Issue Proposed Merger Guidelines Updates

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Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) and the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) (the “Agencies”) jointly issued a draft update of their Merger Guidelines intended to describe and guide the Agencies’ review of...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

A Divided FTC Approves Omnibus Resolutions to Step Up Enforcement Actions and Votes to Withdraw the 2020 Vertical Merger...

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Last week saw two notable competition-related developments from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The first relates to the FTC’s approval of eight new compulsory process resolutions in high-priority areas. The second...more

Bracewell LLP

Stalemate at FTC Leads to Contested Merger Closing

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On May 14, 2021, despite not having obtained official approval from federal antitrust authorities, 7-Eleven Inc., the largest convenience-store chain in the U.S., took the highly unusual step of closing its $21 billion...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

2019 Antitrust Year in Review

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati (Wilson Sonsini) is pleased to present its 2019 Antitrust Year in Review, which summarizes the most significant antitrust matters and developments of the past year. Over the past few years,...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Antitrust in the Technology Sector: Policy Perspective and Insights From the Enforcers

Skadden’s Antitrust and Competition Group and the economics firm Charles River Associates recently co-hosted the ninth annual “Antitrust in the Technology Sector: Policy Perspectives and Insights From the Enforcers” seminar...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

FTC Decision on Staples' Acquisition of Office Supply Wholesaler Essendant

On January 28, 2019, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) entered into a consent order allowing, with firewall conditions, the vertical merger between Staples and office-supply distributor Essendant. In order to resolve the...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

2018 Antitrust Year in Review

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati (WSGR) is pleased to present its 2018 Antitrust Year in Review, which summarizes the most significant antitrust matters and developments of the past year. In this report, we examine the Trump...more

Hogan Lovells

Competition Amendment Bill

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On 1 December 2017, Minister of Economic Development published the Competition Amendment Bill (the Amendment Bill) for comment. Pursuant to input from various interested parties an updated version of the Amendment Bill was...more

Jones Day

How China Deals with the Diverging Approaches to Monopoly Agreements

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Over the first decade of China's Antimonopoly Law, we have seen a divergence between the approaches adopted by the Chinese antimonopoly enforcement agencies and the Chinese courts towards agreements that restrain trade; what...more

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