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Illinois is set to introduce new house legislation that will impact healthcare-related transactions, with the potential to delay or prevent completion of certain deals

Christoph Neeracher, Philippe Seiler and Raphael Annasohn, Bär & Karrer

AUSTIN - Two Texas bills seeking to expand the authority of the attorney general to pursue antitrust actions have passed the House and were heard by the Senate State Affairs Committee yesterday morning.

Illinois House of Representatives passed HB 2222 to amend Illinois Antitrust Act to add new reporting requirements for certain transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, and contracting affiliations. These heightened requirements would begin January 1, 2024.

Illinois House of Rep passed HB 2222 to increase oversight of mergers combinations for healthcare facilities unlike Hart Scott Rodino Illinois healthcare transactions law requires notice to federal antitrust agencies for any transaction value threshold intrastate covered transactions

On March 24, 2023, the Illinois House of Representatives passed legislation (HB 2222) that, if passed by the Illinois Senate and signed by Governor J.B. Pritzker, would increase...

Over the years, there have been famous cases of U.S. antitrust officials attempting to fight monopolistic powers. Standard Oil was ordered to be broken into 33 different companies in 1911 and AT&T’s local phone service was broken up in 1984 into seven companies. Perhaps most famously was the U.S. case against Microsoft, which ended in […]

Many of America's most powerful companies have combined to pursue a dangerous political agenda masquerading as altruism.

The Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice is aggressively enforcing and expanding the scope of criminal antitrust cases it is willing to bring, including a first wave of novel criminal no-poach cases.

It's no secret that Google pays Apple approximately $15 billion each year to be the default search engine on Apple devices, a relationship...