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Jan 23, 2025 | 
jdsupra.com | Noah A. Brumfield |Jonathan Cheng |Jessica Delbaum
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced increases to the notification thresholds and premerger filing fees under the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Antitrust Improvements Act, which requires premerger notification of certain transactions to the FTC and the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
jdsupra.com | Noah A. Brumfield |Rebecca Farrington |J. Mark Gidley
January 21, 2025
Noah Brumfield, Rebecca Farrington, J.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
jdsupra.com | Noah A. Brumfield |Jonathan Cheng |Jessica Delbaum
[co-author: Kiko Demetriou]The civil penalty resolves an FTC investigation into the coordination by the parties of certain business decisions, as well as access to competitively sensitive information, prior to satisfying the stand-still requirements of the HSR Act. The HSR Act provides for a penalty for each day that parties to a reportable transaction are in violation of the Act.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Noah A. Brumfield |Jonathan Cheng |Jessica Delbaum
Democratic Commissioners Swung for the Fences, but FTC Settles for Unanimous Revisions, Still Increasing Burden on FilersOn October 10, 2024, all five Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) Commissioners, with concurrence from the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”),1 approved the most significant changes to the Hart-Scott-Rodino (“HSR”) rules and merger notification forms2 since the HSR process was created more than 45 years ago.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
mondaq.com | Ben Gris |Jonathan Cheng |Jessica Delbaum |Noah A. Brumfield
The U.S. antitrust agencies are routinely on alert for
violations of the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of
1976 ("HSR Act"), even in instances where there are no
competitive or otherwise apparent antitrust concerns. To showcase
this, last week, the Federal Trade Commission ("FTC")
announced an approximately $1 million civil penalty against an
individual for his alleged failure to file his open market
acquisition of Wells Fargo & Company ("Wells Fargo")
shares.
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Sep 24, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Noah A. Brumfield |Jonathan Cheng |Jessica Delbaum
The U.S. antitrust agencies are routinely on alert for violations of the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 (“HSR Act”), even in instances where there are no competitive or otherwise apparent antitrust concerns. The U.S. antitrust agencies are routinely on alert for violations of the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 (“HSR Act”), even in instances where there are no competitive or otherwise apparent antitrust concerns.
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Aug 8, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Noah A. Brumfield |Jonathan Cheng |Jessica Delbaum
ON THIS PAGE HSR Act and “gun jumping” legal framework Conduct by Legends Proposed settlement Three key takeaways On August 5, 2024, the United States Department of Justice (“DOJ”) filed a rare[1] gun jumping[2] civil lawsuit and proposed settlement in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York against Legends Hospitality Parent Holdings, LLC (“Legends”)—a global sports and entertainment venue services company partially owned by the New York Yankees and the Dallas...
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Jul 26, 2024 | 
mondaq.com | Noah A. Brumfield
Global competition policy is in a state of flux and reinvention. The rapid adoption of AI is challenging global governments to
consider traditional horizontal and vertical antitrust enforcement
in a rapidly changing new context, balancing competition policy
with intellectual property and privacy rights and security
interests.
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Jul 25, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Noah A. Brumfield
Global competition policy is in a state of flux and reinvention. The rapid adoption of AI is challenging global governments to consider traditional horizontal and vertical antitrust enforcement in a rapidly changing new context, balancing competition policy with intellectual property and privacy rights and security interests.
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Jul 12, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Matthew Behrens |Noah A. Brumfield |Jessica Delbaum
ON THIS PAGE Related insights New York state non-competes ban vetoed by governorOn July 3, 2024, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas (the “Court”) in Ryan LLC v. Federal Trade Commission (“Ryan”) preliminarily enjoined the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) from enforcing its recently promulgated, but not yet effective, non-compete rule (the “Non-Compete Rule”) against plaintiff Ryan LLC and certain trade groups serving as plaintiff-intervenors.
