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Over the last several years, the use of most favored nation clauses by health insurers has been the focus of significant antitrust scrutiny, with legislation being enacted in several states that prohibits the use of such clauses in provider contracts and the DOJ Antitrust Division taking action against the use of such clauses as well.

Jeff Jaeckel, Alex Okuliar, David Shaw, and Evan Harris authored an article for Global Competition Review discussing the competition-related merger review process in the United States.

Last year, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) finalized sweeping changes to the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) notification and report form (the new Rules). The U.S. Chamber of Commerce sought a declaratory judgment that the new...

Bryan Marra, Senior Attorney in the Antitrust practice group, was featured in the article "AI's Expanding Role in Antitrust: How LLMs Are Changing Regulatory Reviews," published by Lighthouse and JD Supra

A California jury last week handed down what has been reported to be the first antitrust jury verdict involving the cannabis industry.

Axinn partner Jeny Maier co-hosted ABA's Our Curious Amalgam podcast in an episode entitled, "Can Competition and Quality Coincide? Analyzing a Systematic Competition...

Partner Carl Hittinger and Associate Jeanne-Michele Mariani authored an article published Oct. 26, 2018, by The Legal Intelligencer.

On May 24, 2022, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced that it is replacing the Office of Innovation with the newly-established Office of Competition and Innovation.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently reversed its position on how to calculate the size-of-transaction for HSR purposes in connection with leveraged buyouts (LBOs).

On Oct. 18 2014, at the 28th session of the China-EU Trade and Economic Joint Committee, intensive discussions led by Chinese Minister of Commerce Gao Hucheng and EU Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht were concluded with an amicable settlement of the Commission’s trade defence investigation into Chinese telecoms

The potential for government investigation increases during periods of rapid and extreme movement in price.

Earlier this year, coffee chain Peet's Coffee & Tea LLC was sued by a putative class comprised of all California customers who purchased subscriptions of coffee and tea from the company after February 2013.

As holiday moviegoers shattered box office records this past weekend, both the Department of Justice and ten state attorneys general were in the midst of investigating why so many movie fans were headed to so few theater chains.

On Dec. 18, 2013, the European Commission announced that it accepted binding commitments from Deutsche Bahn to resolve concerns that its pricing system for traction current in Germany favored DB-owned entities over competitors.

On July 24, 2013, the European Commission announced the adoption of broad new legislative proposals to replace the 2007 Payment Services Directive, that include a new Payment Services Directive and measures to regulate interchange fees for card-based payment transactions.

Gunnison Energy Corporation (GEC), SG Interests I Ltd., and SG Interests VII Ltd. (SGI) were required to pay a total of $550,000 to the United States for antitrust and False Claims Act violations related to an agreement not to compete in bidding for four natural gas leases sold at auction by the U.S. Department of Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM).

On April 1, 2010, the Connecticut Attorney General's Office announced an agreement with the La Quinta hotel group to cease contacts with competitors that the Connecticut Attorney General, Richard Blumenthal, characterized as "a wake-up call to the entire hotel industry -- signaling that call-arounds to set room prices are illegal and must be stopped."

The European Commission, which has responsibility for enforcing the EU's antitrust rules, announced that it has raided the offices of a number of companies active in the container liner shipping sector.