Competition Law and Antitrust Law

Across several recent cases, antitrust enforcers in Europe have demonstrated an increased willingness to consider novel solutions to close down investigations through commitments (without finding any illegal behaviour or imposing penalties), but still being able to point to real wins to consumers from their interventions...

On October 23, 2025, the French Competition Authority (FCA) issued an informal guidance on the compatibility with competition law of a proposed platform...

Following the conclusion of a months-long "pause" in Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) seemingly has resumed FCPA...

Following a multiyear process that was initiated in 2019 and considered thousands of public comments, on October 16, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ...

The FTC focused its week on consumer protection. The Commission announced a tentative agenda for its upcoming open meeting, sent warning letters to adoption intermediaries for purportedly misleading consumers...

On August 14, 2024, the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida issued a preliminary order holding the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) ban on employee noncompetes (the "Noncompete Rule") to be unlawful.

The White House has directed the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate whether the meatpacking industry has engaged in anticompetitive collusion.

FTC to revisit a national non-compete ban: The FTC will host a Jan. 27, 2026 workshop as it restarts efforts to regulate or potentially ban most non-competition agreements nationwide.

On November 21, 2025, the Department of Justice (DOJ) achieved a significant milestone in antitrust enforcement when a Nevada federal court sentenced Eduardo Lopez to forty...