Aimee DeFilippo

Oct 6, 2024 | concurrences.com | Craig Waldman |Aimee DeFilippo |Michael Gleason |Michael Knight

In ShortThe Development: The Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") unanimously issued a final rule expanding the requirements of premerger filings under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements ("HSR") Act of 1976. The HSR Act requires parties to certain mergers and acquisitions to make premerger notification filings with U.S. Department of Justice ("DOJ") and FTC, and to observe statutory waiting periods, prior to consummating their transaction. The Significance: The final rule is a comp...

Oct 6, 2024 | concurrences.com | Craig Waldman |Aimee DeFilippo |Michael Gleason |Michael Knight

The US DoJ and FTC releases its final rule expanding HSR pre-merger filing requirements 7 October 2024 3 In Short The Development: The Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") unanimously issued a final rule expanding the requirements of premerger filings under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements ("HSR") Act of 1976.

Apr 30, 2024 | jdsupra.com | Rick Bergstrom |Terri Chase |Aimee DeFilippo

This week, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) voted 3-2 along party lines to finalize a rule that bans noncompete clauses in employment agreements as a per se illegal “unfair method of competition” (“UMC”) under Section 5 of the FTC Act. The Chamber of Commerce and others already have filed lawsuits seeking to invalidate the rule, and those lawsuits could result in a stay of the rule as the cases proceed.

Mar 6, 2024 | mondaq.com | Jason Beer |Serge Clerckx |Aimee DeFilippo |Mark Jones

The UK Competition and Markets Authority ("CMA") launched a market study on 20 February 2024 into baby formula, the latest development in a broader focus on the food and grocery sector.

Feb 27, 2024 | jdsupra.com | Jason Beer |Serge Clerckx |Aimee DeFilippo

The market study follows on from an earlier report into price inflation and competition across the sector (the "Price Inflation Report"), where the CMA identified baby formula as a particularly high-margin category that had generated increasing unit profits for manufacturers during the recent period of high inflation. The Price Inflation Report, which was published in November 2023, found that own-label margins were low for most product categories and had fallen in the prior financial year.