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Jan 16, 2025 | 
mondaq.com | Will Chuchawat |Steven Goldberg |Thomas Hogan |Carl W. Hittinger
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced the 2025 filingthresholds under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Actof 1976 (the HSR Act). Minimum reportable Size of Transaction increases to $126.4million, and Size of Person thresholds increase to $25.3 millionand $252.9 million. The FTC also announced the new HSR filing fees for 2025. The new thresholds will apply to all transactions closing 30days after the date of forthcoming publication in the FederalRegister.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
concurrences.com | Jeffry W. Duffy |Carl W. Hittinger |Julian Perlman |Kristen Jackson
BakerHostetler (New York) Partner Patrick Campbell represents companies and executives in complex civil, regulatory and criminal law enforcement investigations and proceedings, and internal compliance matters. Patrick represents clients in a range of industries before different federal and state regulators, as well as in parallel investigations and proceedings brought in the U.S. and abroad.
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Aug 5, 2024 | 
law.com | Carl W. Hittinger |Michael E. Neminski
The FTC’s historic rule banning most employment-based noncompetition agreements (the noncompete rule), and its authority to issue such a rule, were the subject of court decisions handed down in the month of July. However, the decisions by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas and the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania were in direct conflict.
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Apr 19, 2024 | 
pymnts.com | Carl W. Hittinger |Alyse F. Stach |Ayanna F. Brown
Administration Launches Antitrust-Focused Strike Force By CPI | April 19, 2024 By: Carl W. Hittinger, Alyse F. Stach & Ayanna Brown (BakerHostetler)On March 5, President Joe Biden established the Strike Force on Unfair and Illegal Pricing, in line with his Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy issued on July 9, 2021.
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Apr 8, 2024 | 
feeds.feedblitz.com | Carl W. Hittinger |Ayanna F. Brown |Abigail Adcox |Larry E. Coben
“Nevermore” apparently constituted the entire vocabulary of the elegant raven of Edgar Allan Poe’s poem, but both the word and the concept may be facing obsolescence as the echoes of change resound within the halls of beverage regulation. These changes herald a new era for non-alcoholic malt and brewed beverages, where uncertainty can give way to clarity and opportunity. It is no secret that consumers are demanding more non-alcoholic beverages.
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Mar 28, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Ayanna F. Brown |Carl W. Hittinger |Alyse F. Stach
On March 5, President Joe Biden launched the Strike Force on Unfair and Illegal Pricing (Strike Force) for the purpose of implementing policies in his July 9, 2021 Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy.[1] The Strike Force is co-chaired by the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Trade Commission, with the goal to “strengthen interagency efforts to root out and stop illegal corporate behavior that hikes prices on American families through anti-competitive,...
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Mar 25, 2024 | 
law.com | Carl W. Hittinger |Ayanna F. Brown
On March 5, President Joe Biden launched the strike force on unfair and illegal pricing (strike force) for the purpose of implementing policies in his July 9, 2021, “Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy.” The strike force on unfair and illegal pricing is co-chaired by the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) with the goal to “strengthen interagency efforts to root out and stop illegal corporate behavior that hikes prices on American...
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Mar 4, 2024 | 
law.com | Carl W. Hittinger |Justin Murphy
On Dec. 1, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit reversed a bid-rigging conviction of a former aluminum products manufacturing company executive, holding that the alleged conspiracy should be analyzed under the more permissive rule of reason rather than the per se standard because of the supplier-customer relationship between the alleged conspiring bidders. The Fourth Circuit declined to reconsider its panel ruling on Feb.
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Oct 17, 2023 | 
jdsupra.com | Carl W. Hittinger |Michael E. Neminski
In spring 2022, the Department of Justice (the DOJ) announced its intention to aggressively pursue monopolization cases. While the DOJ is continuing its aggressive prosecution of criminal cases, it is also now utilizing alternative methods to pursue alleged monopolistic conduct.
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Sep 29, 2023 | 
law.com | Carl W. Hittinger |Michael E. Neminski
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