GT Newsletter | Competition Currents | January 2021 | Insights
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 ...