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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced its annual revision to the thresholds under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 (HSR), which will apply to all transactions closing on or after February 11, 2013.

On January 26, 2018, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced the annual changes to the thresholds for the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976...

Andrew Gavil testified on the subject of "Competition and the Potential Costs and Benefits of Professional Licensure" before the House Committee on Small Business.

On January 19, 2017, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced its annual revision of the filing thresholds under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act (HSR Act), increasing the minimum reportable transaction from $78.2M to $80.8M.

On January 16, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") will hold a virtual informal hearing on proposed amendments to its current automatic renewal rules.

The FTC focused its week on consumer protection. The Commission announced a tentative agenda for its upcoming open meeting, sent warning letters to adoption intermediaries for purportedly misleading consumers...

During the past couple of weeks, there have been several important new developments in the gift card industry that may inform the next steps of sellers of gift cards and similar instruments in New Jersey and other states.

Federal antitrust laws provide that large transactions involving the merger or acquisition of large companies with or by other large companies are subject to review by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) and the U.S. Justice Department for potential anti-competitive effects.

Defendants in the case are foreign manufacturers of capacitors, many of which are based in Japan, and their U.S. subsidiaries.

Developments in US antitrust law in general, and recent United States Supreme Court rulings in particular, are the subject of a chapter that Mayer Brown LLP partners Mark McLaughlin, Andrew S. Marovitz, and Britt M. Miller authored for Getting the Deal Through: Private Antitrust Litigation 2008 (Global Competition Review), a compendium of private antitrust law in 27 jurisdictions worldwide.

Trying to figure out if you need to make an HSR filing? Is your company currently considering an asset acquisition?

On January 21, 2016, the US Federal Trade Commission announced new thresholds relating to the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as amended, 15 U.S.C. § 18a.

On January 21, 2011, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, the agency charged with administering the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 (the "HSR Act"), as amended, and its filing requirements, announced the adjusted HSR Act notification thresholds for 2011.

The dollar thresholds for pre-acquisition filings under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act will increase effective February 16 or 19, 2007 (depending on publication date), due to an annual adjustment mechanism that was created in the last round of amendments to the Act. All transactions closing on or after that date will be governed by the new thresholds.

On February 16, 2012, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman launched a comprehensive plan to reform and revitalize New York’s nonprofit sector, which, according to Schneiderman, has been saddled with too much red tape, convoluted statutory requirements, and fraud and abuse.

On December 1, 2014, we wrote about the Seventh Circuit’s decision in Motorola Mobility LLC v. AU Optronics Corp., which affirmed dismissal of the vast majority of Motorola’s claims regarding LCD panels.

On May 15, 2007, a U.S. District Judge for theWestern District of Pennsylvania dismissed the U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) request for a preliminary injunction blocking Equitable Resources Inc.’s proposed acquisition of a Pennsylvania natural gas company.

California's new AB 1776 law prohibits single-firm monopolization and monopsonization, establishing a "substantial market power" standard that may differ from federal antitrust requirements. While significantly amended from its original version to remove private enforcement and uncertain standards, the law represents a major expansion of state antitrust authority that businesses with large market shares must carefully evaluate.