Competition Law and Antitrust Law

While President Trump's choices to lead the Federal Trade Commission (Andrew Ferguson) and the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice...

Recent actions by both the Department of Justice Antitrust Division (DOJ) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) indicate that the enforcement agencies are continuing with policies similar to the prior administration.

Under the leadership of newly confirmed Assistant Attorney General Gail Slater, the U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division (DOJ) submitted...

The Swiss Competition Authority (SCC) fined German car manufacturer BMW CHF156 million (around USD163 million or EUR130 million) on 24 May 2012 for restricting cross-border trade between the EU and Switzerland.

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled in May 2011 that national competition authorities (NCAs) in the 27 EU Member States do not have the power to decide that there has been no breach of EU competition law.

On 28 March 2012 the European Commission (EC) imposed another fine for obstruction of one of its "inspections" (dawn raids). This was the first fine for obstructing the EC’s access to emails during a dawn raid.

The recent designation of Mexican drug cartels and other criminal organizations as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) exposes companies to criminal prosecution for providing material support under 18 U.S.C. 2339B.

On the latest episode of the American Bar Association Antitrust Section's podcast "Our Curious Amalgam," Axinn partner James Hunsberger joins co-host Jaclyn Phillips (White & Case) for a discussion with guest John Terzaken (Simpson Thacher) about his latest global cartel enforcement forecast.

2024 saw a significant increase in overall global fines for antitrust enforcement, with total penalties for the jurisdictions surveyed in our report at USD6.7 billion...

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.