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...
After a year and half, the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC’s) administrative challenge to Illumina’s vertical merger with Grail, its former subsidiary, was rejected by FTC Chief Administrative Law Judge D Michael...