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Our Antitrust Team examines finalized guidelines from the Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission that set forth more aggressive standards for horizontal and vertical M&A...

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) on July 19, 2023, jointly announced the release of proposed Merger Guidelines that would expand significantly the...

The current labor market is fraught with challenges for employers. In the wake of the COVID-19 market disruptions, the demand for employees, especially for experienced or highly trained...

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) held the final installment of their "listening tour" on May 12, 2022...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Price gouging is back in the news, this time as Americans rush to buy gasoline after a major East Coast pipeline is temporarily shut down. Our Antitrust Team provides lessons for how companies can handle price gouging, from avoiding becoming victims of vendors to their own compliance with individual state laws. An overview of price-gouging laws How the current “crisis” is affecting businesses Lessons to be learned The recent ranso...

Our Antitrust Team is keeping a close eye on the Epic v. Apple trial – a likely test case for how current antitrust law can cope with today’s highly complex markets. In this first installment of the Antitrust Spotlight, we dive right into how we got here and what’s at stake. Apple’s App Store is under fire from multiple players, but Epic arrives first Both Epic and Apple revealed their game plans before trial Will the court’s findings follow the parties’ attacks on each other or fi...

President. $600,000 can buy you a lot of favor with someone close to the president on this issue. its interesting, because the department of justice, the antitrust team which has been fighting with at&t and time warner over this merger, has said its ironic, right, that at&t claimed politics, that one of the reasons that the government wanted to stop the merger was politics, yet its engaged in pure politics here it seems, hiring the presidents personal lawyer. >> right. i have sources familiar wi...