Look beyond the “company town”: labour monopsony and 21st-century merger enforcement

The Biden Administration has vowed to reinvigorate antitrust enforcement, in part by wielding the Sherman Act as a sword to protect workers against “the harmful effects of monopoly and monopsony” – especially as these issues arise in labor markets. In light of this promise, Crowell & Moring attorneys Olivier Antoine, Megan Wolf and Chris Murphy consider the potential framework of analysis for labour monopsony issues.