At a recent meeting of government enforcers and antitrust practitioners, Department of Justice (DOJ) officials outlined several initiatives reflecting a commitment to more aggressive crim...
At last week’s Enforcers Summit, leaders of various U.S. and international antitrust enforcement agencies set forth their enforcement priorities. The new heads of the U.S. antitrust age...
Thirteen years into China’s antitrust regime, Chinese antitrust enforcement reflects both Western trends, including a focus on technology companies and more aggressive enforcement, and ...
Amid an uptick in merger filings, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), led by Chair Lina Khan, and the Antitrust Division of Department of Justice (DOJ), led by Assistant Attorney General ...
Today, the Federal Trade Commission announced revised Hart-Scott-Rodino Act (HSR) reporting thresholds. Under the new thresholds, a transaction will be reportable only if, as a result of ...
The U.S. antitrust agencies report that merger enforcement activity increased during 2020, even as reportable transactions decreased from 2019. In related statements, FTC Democratic Commi...
The Federal Trade Commission has announced that a “tidal wave” of HSR filings has strained its capacity to review mergers, and that, for transactions the FTC is not able to investigat...
President Biden signed an ambitious Executive Order on July 9, 2021, which pushes several federal agencies to advance competition principles in a range of economic sectors, and establishe...
As bipartisan support for antitrust reform gains steam, legislative proposals from both sides of the aisle have proliferated. To date, Congress has advanced to a vote only relatively mode...
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Davis Polk’s preeminent antitrust group hosted a panel discussion on key developments in the antitrust landscape during the first five months of the Biden-Harris administration and expe...
