Organisation: Federal Trade Commission (USA)

Featured in Americas Antitrust Review 2023

The Antitrust Division of the United States uses the existing legal framework to investigate mergers and implement merger review enforcement in the Biden era, one marked by increased unpredictability.

30 September 2022

Featured in Americas Antitrust Review 2023

The parallel development of US government enforcement and private antitrust litigation relating to labour markets raises the importance of three topics for stakeholders: no-poach agreements; non-compete agreements; and agreements to fix wages.

30 September 2022

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The past year has continued to see an increase in US case law and other developments in the area of pharmaceutical antitrust.

30 September 2022

Syngenta and Corteva illegally thwarted competition for generic forms of their pesticides through anticompetitive rebates, the Federal Trade Commission and 10 states have alleged.

29 September 2022

The Federal Trade Commission should look to fairness, not efficiency, to better protect small businesses and consumers with antitrust enforcement, the agency’s newest commissioner has said.

23 September 2022

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Enforcement priorities in the technology and pharmaceutical industries remain front of mind for antitrust enforcers at the US Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission.

21 September 2022

Republican senators have used an oversight hearing to pointedly grill Federal Trade Commission leadership on topics ranging from slumping morale to the agency’s “inconsistent” use of market definitions.

21 September 2022

The Federal Trade Commission is ready to issue a new statement defining what conduct qualifies as an unfair method of competition, agency chair Lina Khan has said.

20 September 2022

The Department of Justice has appeared before a federal appellate court to criticise aspects of a lower court's dismissal of claims from a coalition of states accusing Meta Platforms of acquiring its competition to enshrine its social networking monopoly.

20 September 2022

Illumina is unlikely to try to harm Grail’s rivals because doing so would damage the company’s reputation, the Federal Trade Commission’s administrative law judge has ruled.

13 September 2022