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In this Issue: United States 1. FTC to study impact of physician group and health care facility mergers. As part of its Merger Retrospective Program, on Jan. 13, 2021, the FTC issued an Order to File a Special Report to six health insurance companies. The FTC plans to use information gathered through the Special Report (e.g., patient-level data from 2015 to 2020) to analyze the competitive impact of physician and health care facility consolidation, as well as mergers and acquisitions, in markets for health care services. 2. FTC approves final order imposing conditions on combination of Pfiz...

Friday, February 5, 2021 UK merger control – a new dawn? The start of 2021 coincides with the end of the transition period following the UK’s withdrawal from the EU. In turn, this brings about the most significant change to UK merger control since the introduction of the current UK regime by the Enterprise Act 2002. This is because, as reported in previous editions of Competition Currents, one of the key consequences of the end of the transition period is that the EU’s “one-stop shop” merger control regime no longer covers the UK: new M&A transactions are now potentially ...

1. FTC approves Otto Bock HealthCare North America, Inc.’s application to divest assets in prosthetic knee merger. On Dec. 1, 2020, the FTC announced its approval of an application by prosthetics manufacturer Otto Bock HealthCare North America Inc. to divest certain assets it acquired when it consummated its acquisition of FIH Group Holdings LLC (Freedom Innovations), including all microprocessor prosthetic knee (MPK) products and technology. Otto Bock completed its acquisition of Freedom Innovations in September 2017, and FTC filed an administrative complaint in December of that year. In ...

Thursday, January 14, 2021 A. Dutch Competition Authority (ACM).  1.        ACM announces support for experiment in allowing lawyers to be hired directly by legal-protection insurance companies. On Dec. 14, 2020, the ACM announced that the experiment of the Netherlands Bar to allow bar members to be employed directly by legal-protection insurance companies was a step in the right direction. Lawyers employed with legal-protection insurers may assist non-insured persons as well. Legal-protection insurers will be granted temporary exemption. From Jan. 1, 2021, lawyers employed...