The government spending bill passed by Congress on December 23 includes several antitrust measures. The most notable of these makes significant changes to pre-merger notification filing fees...

May 21, 2021 – Over the last week, the Federal Reserve extended a rule modification allowing certain bank directors and shareholders to apply for Paycheck Protection Program loans...

In his Memorandum Opinion, Judge Carey dismissed the Chapter 11 cases filed by the Bahamas-based debtors under section 305(a) of the Bankruptcy Code.

We had recently written about how a dispute over the ownership of certain IP threatened to derail eBay’s proposed sale of Skype.

July 24, 2024 - On Tuesday, July 23, 2024, Judge Kelley Hodge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania declined to stay the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) rule banning.

On Tuesday, June 27, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) published a 133-page notice of proposed rulemaking that seeks to overhaul the pre-merger notification rules...

March 13, 2021 - On March 12, the FTC clarified the extent of its temporary suspension of early termination of the initial 30-day waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR)

This week Congress passed a much-anticipated $900 billion stimulus package as part of a $1.4 trillion omnibus spending bill, although it faces ...

This week President Biden signed into law bipartisan legislation that extends the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan application deadline from March 31 to May 31.

January 22, 2021 – This week the Treasury Department announced approval of more than $12 billion in payroll support for major U.S. passenger air carriers and the Small Business Administration

July 9, 2021 – Over the last three weeks, legislation was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives to eliminate the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation program...

esterday President Biden signed into law the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, which provides for a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief budget package.

Yesterday the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued a stay on the Fifth Circuit's Dec. 3, 2024, preliminary injunction enjoining the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN)...

This week FinCEN issued an advisory regarding COVID-19-related unemployment insurance fraud, and legislation was introduced in the House of Representatives that would expand corporate tax incentives to invest in ...

On October 31, the U.S. Department of Justice announced the first federal criminal prosecution in five decades for attempted monopolization in violation of Section 2 of the Sherman Act.

Once signed into law, the bereavement leave amendment will only become effective January 1, 2020.

Christopher Kiplok, counsel to the trustee in the liquidation of Lehman Brothers, was interviewed by NPR's Marketplace regarding the 10th anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers.

May 14, 2021 – Over the last two weeks, bills were introduced in Congress that propose to make certain non-profit child care providers eligible for Small Business ...

This week the Treasury Department announced the establishment of the Office of Recovery Programs to oversee recovery programs authorized by the CARES Act, the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021, ...

Mary Bartkus, Special Counsel, has authored a paper titled "Six Class Actions for 16 Microliters: Eye Drop Litigation Reopens in New Jersey is Dismissed in Massachusetts, and is on Appeal to the First Circuit.