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...
FTC engagement in labor markets: all talk or real action?
The Biden administration’s most newsworthy antitrust enforcement effort is found in its reiterated campaign to employ antitrust tools to increase wages and employment opportunities for ordinary workers by moving against...
FTC v Facebook – where are they now?
Much buzz surrounded the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC’s) filing of a district court case against Facebook (now known as Meta) in 2020, seeking divestiture of Instagram and WhatsApp, companies that were acquired and...