Competition Law and Antitrust Law

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.

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...

Can an overzealous implementation of data privacy rules by a dominant firm trigger antitrust investigations with hefty sanctions? Under EU law, this seems to be the case.

On January 16, 2026, the Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") published to the Federal Register the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 ("HSR Act") merger-reporting thresholds for 2026.

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently announced its annual revision of the filing thresholds under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act (HSR Act), increasing the minimum reportable transaction...