Baker & Miller PLLC Announces Two New Partners as Firm Reemphasizes Focus on Antitrust and International Roots
Baker & Miller PLLC is pleased to announce that effective January 1, 2024, Erin A. Glavich and Lucy S. Clippinger, both of whom are antitrust attorneys based in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office, will become partners.
DOJ’s Agri Stats case demonstrates increased concern with information sharing among competitors in data analytics era
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has issued a shot across the bow for competitor information exchanges. At the end of September 2023, the DOJ filed a conspiracy complaint against a data exchange for allegedly engineering and...
New merger guidelines – more noise than guidance about government merger enforcement
On 19 July 2023, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) (collectively, the agencies) published draft “Merger Guidelines”, and asked for public comment. The title is in quotes because it
Big changes could be coming to the rules that govern the US premerger notification program. Recently proposed rules dramatically expand the information required for filings and substantially increase the burden and time...
New inflection point? US antitrust agencies see opportunity to change direction of antitrust law
Despite recent court losses, US agencies tasked with antitrust enforcement recently gathered to reiterate their strong commitment to disrupting the status quo in antitrust by using broad constructions of their own power, new