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On October 27, 2021, the FTC announced that it intends to publish (1) a final rule to amend the Standards for Safeguarding Customer Information (Safeguards Rule); (2) a supplemental...
On November 17, 2021, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC" or the "Commission") voted 3-2 to propose amendments to the rules governing proxy voting advice that were enacted last year.
On July 9, 2021, President Biden issued an "Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy." The Order responds to what the President characterizes as a "failed experiment"...
To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: M&A in the media industry is about to pick up. Recently, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the U.S. Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) 2017 rollback of media ownership limits. Media companies that once avoided specific acquisitions due to regulatory ownership limits may now take a second look. But passing through FCC review is only part of the equation, with the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division (DOJ) and many State Attorneys General frequently taking a hard look at deals in this sector. The Supreme Court’s decisi...
To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Split along partisan lines, the Federal Trade Commission (Commission) voted last week to issue Commentary on Vertical Merger Enforcement (Commentary). The Commentary intends to “provide[] greater transparency to the public regarding [the Commission’s] analysis of vertical mergers” by collecting in a single document the Commission’s past vertical merger cases and summarizing how it has analyzed potential anticompetitive effects in vertical transactions. [1] The two Democratic commissioners dissented here just as they had in J...