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Jan 9, 2025 | 
jdsupra.com | Joseph Farside Jr. |Van Jolas |Barbara Sicalides
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Justice, Antitrust Division (DOJ) announced a record-setting $5.6 million gun-jumping fine related to Verdun Oil Company II LLC's acquisition of EP Energy LLC. Although the parties agreed to divest certain operations pursuant to a 2022 consent decree to address competition issues, the current action did not allege new concerns about the post-closing effects of the transaction on competition.
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
businesslawtoday.org | Barbara Sicalides |Julian J. Weiss |Jim Sandy |McGlinchey Stafford PLLC
CURRENT MONTH (December 2024) Table of Contents hide Two Courts Block Kroger-Albertsons MergerBy Barbara Sicalides and Julian Weiss, Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLPWithin hours of each other on December 10, an Oregon federal district court followed by a Washington state court enjoined the $24.6 billion merger of the Kroger and Albertsons grocery chains.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Barbara Sicalides |Julian J. Weiss
At the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) open meeting this month, agency staff and commissioners discussed the recently launched " Merger Portal." The portal is available on the FTC's website and provides the public with an additional method of communicating opinions and facts regarding mergers to the agency.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Barbara Sicalides |Julian J. Weiss
A New York federal court's recent decision to enjoin the merger of two fashion companies gave the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the 2023 Merger Guidelines a boost. Since the issuance of the draft merger guidelines in July 2023, commentators and practitioners have questioned whether the courts will accept the more pro-enforcement and interventionist guidance, particularly given the fact that the FTC had no sitting Republican commissioners at the time the draft guidance was issued.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Barbara Sicalides |Julian J. Weiss
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has filed a notice of appeal of the Northern District of Texas’s decision granting plaintiffs’ summary judgment motion and “setting aside” the agency’s rule banning nearly all employee noncompete agreements. This is the second case appealed by the FTC, following its earlier appeal of a Florida federal court’s decision enjoining the FTC rule with respect to the individual Florida plaintiff.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Barbara Sicalides |Julian J. Weiss
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has filed a notice of appeal of the Northern District of Texas’s decision granting plaintiffs’ summary judgment motion and “setting aside” the agency’s rule banning nearly all employee noncompete agreements. This is the second case appealed by the FTC, following its earlier appeal of a Florida federal court’s decision enjoining the FTC rule with respect to the individual Florida plaintiff.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
concurrences.com | Troutman Pepper |Barbara Sicalides |Julian J. Weiss |Nils Wahl
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has filed a notice of appeal of the Northern District of Texas’s decision granting plaintiffs’ summary judgment motion and “setting aside” the agency’s rule banning nearly all employee noncompete agreements. This is the second case appealed by the FTC, following its earlier appeal of a Florida federal court’s decision enjoining the FTC rule with respect to the individual Florida plaintiff. A third case challenging the FTC’s rule in Pennsylvania federal court...
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
businesslawtoday.org | Barbara Sicalides |Van Jolas |Julian J. Weiss |Drew Mann
After what one commissioner described as “intense negotiations” among the commissioners, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has unanimously approved a substantial overhaul to the rules governing the documents and information that must be submitted as part of parties’ premerger notification filings under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements (HSR) Act.
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Oct 14, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Joseph Farside Jr. |Van Jolas |Barbara Sicalides
After what is described as "intense negotiations" among the commissioners, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has unanimously approved a substantial overhaul to the rules governing the documents and information that must be submitted as part of the parties' premerger notification filings under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements (HSR) Act.
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
concurrences.com | Troutman Pepper |Locke Lord |Barbara Sicalides |Julian J. Weiss
Previous article Next article Share on | After what is described as “intense negotiations” among the commissioners, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has unanimously approved a substantial overhaul to the rules governing the documents and information that must be submitted as part of the parties’ premerger notification filings under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements (HSR) Act. The FTC asserts that the changes are necessary to allow the agencies to “keep pace” with “the realities...
