Changes to fee structure for Hart-Scott-Rodino Act filings
The structure of the filing fees collected with required premerger notification filings under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act 1976, as amended, are set to change for the first time in decades. The new fee...
On January 5, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) proposing the “Non-Compete Clause Rule.” This NPRM occurred one day after the FTC announced that it secured consent...
Interlocking directorates: why do we care?
The 19 October 2022 announcement by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) that seven directors had resigned from corporate board positions in light of DOJ concerns that their respective board appointments to competing...
Axon Enterprise, Inc v Federal Trade Commission: where are they now?
Axon Enterprise, Inc (Axon), an entity whose 2018 acquisition of a competitor was investigated by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in 2020, has taken its challenge to the constitutionality of the structure of the FTC all...
The US government’s attempts to litigate challenges to recent merger transactions have suffered unprecedented setbacks – allowing, so to speak, four merger weddings to go forward and one proposed deal to die. Some 55...