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The Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) continued scrutiny of private equity 'roll-up' strategies resurfaced in a recent complaint filed in Texas federal court alleging that the private equity firm Welsh, Carson, [...]

On June 27, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that it will issue a 132-page Notice of Proposed Rulemaking1 drafted in concurrence with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) [...]

The U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) recently added to the pressure on Apple and Google to modify their app store practices. The DOC's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) released [...]

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced yesterday the increased Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Act thresholds for 2023. These thresholds update the cost to submit an HSR filing-increasing by almost tenfold the filing [...]

On Friday, December 23, 2022, the House of Representatives passed the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 (the 'Act') after the Senate had passed the Act on Thursday with bipartisan support. President [...]

In a recent press release, the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that seven directors resigned from corporate board positions in response to the DOJ's [...]

In a September 17, 2022 speech to the Annual Meeting of the ABA Business Law Section, Deputy Assistant Attorney General Andrew Forman of the Department of Justice's Antitrust Division (DOJ) [...]

On January 18, 2022, the U.S. Department of Justice ('DOJ') and Federal Trade Commission ('FTC') jointly announced their intention to begin a sweeping rewrite of their merger guidelines and issued [...]

In another policy change likely to increase the burden on merging parties, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced on October 25, 2021, that it was restoring its pre-1995 practice of [...]

On September 28, 2021, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced additional changes to its merger review process that Bureau of Competition Director Holly Vedova stated would make the process 'more [...]

On September 15, 2021, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) voted 3-2 along party lines to withdraw the 2020 Vertical Merger Guidelines. The FTC and the Department of Justice (DOJ) jointly [...]

Citing capacity constraints related to what the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) called a 'tidal wave of merger filings that is straining [its] capacity to investigate deals ahead of the statutory [...]

On April 21, 2021, the Senate Subcommittee on Competition Policy, Antitrust, and Consumer Rights held a hearing to explore competition in Apple's App Store and Google Play. Representatives from Apple [...]

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently published the annual changes to the jurisdictional thresholds for Section 7A of the Clayton Act. These changes affect the notification thresholds for Hart-Scott-Rodino Act [...]

As is now becoming customary of Federal Trade Commission chairs with a change in administration, FTC Chairman Joseph J. Simons announced his resignation from the Commission early this week. 1 [...]