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Southwest Airlines cancelled 16,700 flights amid severe winter storms this Christmas. Elizabeth Warren tweeted this was an example of how airline mergers have been a disaster for consumers. Warren has also expressed concern over the JetBlue-Spirit Airlines merger.

The Biden Administration's aggressive antitrust enforcers have trained their sights on private equity companies. They have signaled through enforcement activities, formal policy...

Salmon farming major Mowi has said it is no longer being investigated by the US Department of Justice (DoJ) following a price-fixing probe.

The US Federal Trade Commission’s (“FTC”) reported investigations of Coca-Cola Co. and PepsiCo. Inc. for price discrimination are a significant step toward the agency’s revival of...

FTC issued its 2022 Report on Ethanol Market Concentration. The Energy Policy Act of 2005 directs the FTC to conduct an annual review of market concentration in the ethanol production industry to determine whether there is sufficient competition among industry participants.

A working paper seeks to understand the relationship between mergers and market concentration and companies' lobbying spending and activity.

Successfully navigating antitrust agency investigations requires a familiarity with Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission processes, as well as insight into those agencies...

In what appears to have been in part a trade for tabling new antitrust legislation, at least for now, the Biden administration dramatically increased funding for the Federal Trade...

Jennifer Driscoll is a litigation attorney at Robinson and Cole's New York office. Jen's practice focuses on investigations, arbitration, mergers, and counseling.

Biden Administration leadership Federal Trade Commission FTC and Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice DOJ has signaled opening of more vigilant and skeptical eyes overseeing mergers, acquisitions, other private equity transactions.