At Argo Elementary, a group of kids gathers daily at lunch to buy and sell candy.

The FTC and DOJ's request for information on HSR premerger notification forms closed with 55 comments revealing a sharp divide between state enforcers seeking expanded reporting requirements and practitioners advocating for streamlined, cost-effective disclosures. Will the agencies restore the vacated 2025 form's burdensome requirements, or will they heed the merger bar's call to treat the 46-year-old form as the proper baseline?

Congress didn't set out to redesign money with the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act. Yet that is where the debate has now landed.

The Short Answer: Two or more businesses that work together to produce something. Antitrust Law: An Analysis of Antitrust Principles and Their Application (Areeda and Hovenkamp)...

Seven U.S. cities have filed antitrust lawsuits against fire apparatus manufacturers, alleging an "acquisition monopoly" through strategic buy-and-build strategies.

Like life, sometimes antitrust conspiracies are complicated. Not everything always fits into a neat little package. An articulate soundbite or an attractive infograph isn't necessarily...

Beyond well-known antitrust exemptions like state-action immunity and the baseball exemption, Congress has carved out numerous lesser-known immunities for specific industries and activities.

In case you missed it on the eve of a holiday weekend, the FTC and several states settled their challenge of Amgen's acquisition of Horizon last Friday.

As an antitrust boutique law firm, we receive a varied assortment of antitrust-related questions. One of the most common topics involves resale-price maintenance.

Blockchain is an emerging technology that is already changing the way companies do business. But this doesn't precludn companies using such nascent technology frot getting caught...

We recently wrote about the Federal Trade Commission's blog post explaining how relying on a common algorithm to determine your pricing decisions might violate Section 1 of the Sherman Act.

When allegations of industry-wide price fixing or other cartel conduct come to light, plaintiffs' lawyers almost always respond with class-action lawsuits...

Whether you have an offensive antitrust claim to assert against another business, or an antitrust claim is being asserted against your business...

In May 2024, this blog discussed a rare plaintiff victory in a Robinson-Patman case. In February 2026, the Ninth Circuit affirmed that victory in L.A. International Corp. v. Prestige Brands Holdings, Inc.

The 2026 Stanley Cup Playoffs are underway. For an antitrust lawyer and hockey fan, it is a fitting moment to take stock of professional hockey’s rich antitrust history.

This week a federal judge in California denied a preliminary injunction to block Microsoft's $68.7 billion merger with Activision Blizzard Inc. Both parties may now move ahead and close the deal...

There are a lot of lessons you can learn from Wonka. It's a story about how ingenuity, determination, selflessness, and teamwork can overcome the oppressive adversity of a system that serves entrenched interests.

As we explained in a prior post, the new draft merger Guidelines issued recently by the FTC and DOJ cite to several older court opinions that may be unfamiliar to antitrust practitioners...

Let's say you just lost a civil lawsuit in California Superior Court (one of California's 58 trial courts), and you think the court got it wrong.

Two of the main pillars from the Biden Administration Antitrust Policy in 2023 have been an aggressive merger enforcement agenda and its crusade against Big Tech and vertical integration.