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District court grants temporary restraining order in Phoebe Putney litigation

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 17 2013

The next step of the on-going Phoebe Putney litigation is completed. On Wednesday, April 15, the district court for the Middle District of Georgia

Merger control: gun jumping goes global

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • European Union, USA
  • -
  • June 28 2010

Broadly defined, "gun jumping" refers to unlawful premerger coordination between the parties to an M&A transaction

FTC issues fiscal year 2012 HSR report

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 6 2013

Earlier this week, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued its Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) report for fiscal year 2012 (FY2012), which summarizes

The top five (avoidable) antitrust traps in M&A transactions

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 28 2011

In M&A transactions, the parties are often focused on negotiating the transfer of assets or equity, and may treat antitrust as a mere procedural milestone

Natural gas companies settle antitrust suit stemming from joint bidding

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 25 2013

On Monday, April 22, 2013, after rejecting the initial settlement agreement, Judge Richard Matsch (D. Colo.) approved a revised settlement of a suit

Potato price-fixing case survives motion to dismiss holds that pre-production agricultural output restrictions are not exempt under Capper-Volstead

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 8 2011

On December 2, 2011, a federal judge overseeing multidistrict litigation involving an alleged potato price-fixing conspiracy denied a motion to dismiss the antitrust conspiracy claims despite the potato grower cooperatives asserting that the concerted action was permissible under the Capper-Volstead Act

Increased antitrust scrutiny of non-reportable or closed transactions

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 14 2011

In recent years, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) - the two US agencies responsible for reviewing and challenging transactions that may lessen competition - have increasingly challenged non-reportable and consummated transactions

DOJ issues business review letter regarding hospital-physician gainsharing program

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 22 2013

On January 16, the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division issued a Business Review Letter in which it disclosed its intention not to challenge

Private equity firms achieve only partial dismissal of “buying club” antitrust lawsuit

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 12 2013

The U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts recently limited the scope of a proposed shareholder class action against a number of

FTCDOJ issue joint proposed statement of antitrust enforcement policy relating to ACOs

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 20 2011

On March 31, 2011, contemporaneously with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) release of proposed regulations regarding the formation of Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Department of Justice (DOJ and, with the FTC, each an Agency and, collectively, the Agencies) issued a joint Proposed Statement of Antitrust Enforcement Policy Regarding ACOs Participating in the Medicare Shared Savings Program (Policy Statement