United States: Cartels, Monopolies

On Tuesday, November 18, a federal judge ruled that Meta (formerly Facebook) did not engage in prohibited anticompetitive behavior by purchasing Instagram and WhatsApp.

Yesterday, FinCEN announced an ongoing enforcement initiative against more than 100 money services businesses operating along the Southwest U.S. border.

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 4 July 2025, the EC fined Alchem and its subsidiary EUR 489,000 for their role in a long-running cartel concerning the active pharmaceutical ingredient SNBB, used in the production of Buscopan and its generics

Antitrust laws are designed to ensure that businesses compete fairly. There are three federal antitrust laws that businesses must navigate. These include the Sherman Act, the Federal Trade Commission Act...

With growing concerns of a more lax application of antitrust law under the current Trump administration, individual states have continued to look for ways to strengthen their own antitrust regulations.

Last week, Assistant Attorney General (AAG) of the Department of Justice's Antitrust Division, Gail Slater, issued her first formal address since her confirmation.

In a recent article, economists from George Mason's Mercatus Center surveyed a persistent but little-noted problem in American labor markets: union monopolies.

The Antitrust Section of the American Bar Association (ABA)'s 73rd Annual Spring Meeting took place from April 2 to April 4, in Washington, D.C. At the conference, over 3,900 registrants from 70 countries...