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In what appears to be an emerging trend, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) persuaded a district court to enjoin preliminarily a hospital merger for the second time in a month.

While it is inevitable that senior leadership at the federal antitrust agencies will undergo change, the last few weeks have marked significant movement at the Antitrust Division (the "Division") of the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Trade Commission (the "FTC").

Recent convictions in a wide-ranging Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement action punctuate the government’s enthusiasm for pursuing broad theories of liability in foreign bribery cases.

The wind power industry has exploded over the past decade.

The recent adoption by Myanmar’s Parliament of the long anticipated Foreign Investment Law (FIL) is expected to result in more favorable ground rules for foreign companies planning to invest in Myanmar.

On August 18, 2011, President Obama issued an Executive Order imposing far-reaching sanctions that effectively prohibit U.S. companies or individuals from conducting most business with Syria.

As part of a continuing enforcement trend focusing on the global pharmaceutical and healthcare industries, on August 7, 2012, the Department of Justice (DOJ) entered into a deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) with Pfizer H.C.P. Corp. (Pfizer HCP) — a wholly-owned subsidiary of Pfizer Inc. (Pfizer) — resolving charges related to violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act’s (FCPA) anti-bribery and books and records provisions, in connection with improper payments allegedly made to government

On November 6, 2012, the FTC finalized a settlement with a Puerto Rico pharmacy cooperative, resolving allegations that the cooperative had violated the antitrust laws by fixing prices in its negotiations with third-party payers.

In a landmark decision last week, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia declined to impose per-claim statutory penalties of more than $50 million in a False Claims Act (FCA) case with more than 9,000 "false" claims but no damages.

On July 28, 2011, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a proposal to greatly expand the scope of its regulation of air emissions from oil and natural gas exploration, production, transmission, and storage facilities.

Nutrient pollution is a serious problem in the United States. Nutrient discharges promote excessive algae growth in affected watersheds that exhaust available oxygen eliminating plant and animal life.

The U.S. Supreme Court has determined that EPA had validly interpreted its regulations to hold that stormwater runoff from ditches along logging roads is exempt from National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permitting under the Clean Water Act.