15 May, 2024 Large and Unjustified: Second Circuit Clarifies Pleading Requirements in Reverse Payments Cases By Caroline Boisvert Ted Mathias On May 13—and more than ten years after Federal Trade Commission v. Actavis, the leading U.S. Supreme Court case on reverse payment...
15 May, 2024 What’s Happening with Competition Law in France, Portugal, and Poland? A Podcast Episode with Managing Partner Jeny Maier By Axinn Insights On this episode of Our Curious Amalgam, Axinn managing partner Jeny Maier speaks with Nuno Cunha Rodrigues, the president of the...
07 May, 2024 FTC Final Rule Banning Non-Competes Faces Uncertainty By Lisl Dunlop Tasneem Chowdhury The Federal Trade Commission’s final rule banning non-competes was published in the Federal Register today, potentially becoming...
06 May, 2024 Will the PTO's Proposed Expansion of Filing Settlement Agreements Help to Reduce Drug Prices? By Chad Landmon Craig Minerva In a recent Federal Register notice, the PTO announced a proposed rule requiring that any settlement agreement resolving a PTAB...
29 Apr, 2024 HealthyCompetition.gov Portal Seeks Public Input on Healthcare Industry Practices By Lisl Dunlop Expanding the range of ways they can identify and investigate potential competition concerns in healthcare, DOJ, FTC, and HHS recently...
22 Apr, 2024 Want To Be an Antitrust Scholar? Meet the ABA’s International Scholar-in-Residence By Axinn Insights Many practitioners wonder what it would be like to be an academic, diving deeply into the leading international legal and policy issues...
19 Apr, 2024 Step Aside, FTC: NYC to Banish Non-Competes By Kail Jethmalani The FTC's proposed ban on labor non-competes has loomed since January 2023, with a vote now scheduled for April 23, 2024 in a special...
29 Mar, 2024 ABA Antitrust Law Spring Meeting By Axinn Insights Axinn is proud to be participating in the 72nd ABA Antitrust Law Spring Meeting and other adjacent events. The Spring Meeting is the...
28 Mar, 2024 The Rise of Labor Issues as an Antitrust Priority By Rick Dagen Maryanne Magnier and I have drafted an article titled, “The Rise of Labor Issues as an Antitrust Priority.” The article will soon appear...
20 Mar, 2024 European Commission Merger Policy Speech Reflects Alignment with US Agency Policy, Pre-2021 By Mike Keeley Today's speech by Guillaume Loriot -- the EC's Deputy Director General for Mergers -- is worth a read. Without agreeing necessarily with...
12 Mar, 2024 Artificial Intelligence and Pricing Algorithms in the Antitrust Spotlight By Axinn Insights As we navigate the ever-evolving terrain of technology and market dynamics, it’s vital to stay ahead with insights that transcend the...
11 Mar, 2024 Axinn at the 2024 ABA White Collar Crime Conference By Dan Oakes The 2024 ABA White Collar Crime Conference in San Francisco was filled with insightful discussion on hot topics in recent U.S. criminal...
07 Mar, 2024 The Power of the Purse Hits DOJ's Antitrust Division By Mike Keeley In almost every way, the party of the U.S. President controls federal antitrust enforcement policy. The one exception is control over...
26 Feb, 2024 What’s Up with U.S. Merger Remedies? A Podcast Episode Featuring Jeny Maier By Axinn Insights The US antitrust agencies’ approach to merger remedies has undergone a significant change under the Biden administration. Remedies are...
22 Feb, 2024 Confidential Witnesses & AI, Oh My! By Jimmy Attridge When private suits alleging collusion hit, I search the complaint for “confidential witness.” It used to be that private suits followed...
08 Feb, 2024 The OCC's New Bank Merger Act Rulemaking: Signs of Life in Bank Merger Reform? By David Pearl On January 29, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for Business Combinations Under...