Tag: FTC
US: FTC to review antitrust laws as a result of tech...
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is looking at whether the legal thresholds to bring antitrust suits need to be modified to confront today’s biggest...
US: FTC to review antitrust laws as a result of tech...
The Federal Trade Commission is looking at whether the legal thresholds to bring antitrust suits need to be modified to confront today’s biggest tech...
US: FTC and DOJ approve procedural amendments to HSR rules for...
The Federal Trade Commission, with the concurrence of the Antitrust Division of the US Department of Justice, has published in the Federal Register proposed...
US: Benco, Patterson will not appeal antitrust loss
Benco Dental Supply and Patterson Companies have decided not to appeal a judge’s decision that they violated antitrust law by declining to compete for...
US: FTC finds merger of prosthetic knee companies anticompetitive
The Federal Trade Commission issued an Opinion and Final Order in which the Commission upholds the Administrative Law Judge’s decision that the consummated acquisition of Freedom Innovations by Otto...
US: FTC releases advertising disclosures guidance for online influencers
The Federal Trade Commission has released a new publication for online influencers that lays out the agency’s rules of the road for when and...
US: FTC probes Altria for role in Juul executive changes
US antitrust enforcers are probing Altria Group Inc for potentially exerting influence over electronic-cigarette maker Juul Labs Inc before winning approval for a big...
US: FTC to Study Non-Competes in antitrust
The Federal Trade Commission is ramping up its scrutiny of non-compete agreements as it plans to study how such restrictive contracts inhibit job mobility.
The...
US: FTC staff recommends approval of Roche deal for Spark
The Federal Trade Commission staff reviewing Roche’s plan to buy US-based gene therapy specialist Spark Therapeutics for $4.3 billion recommended that the deal be...
US: Aetna, Anthem must provide data to FTC merger study
Aetna, Anthem, and three other health insurance companies received Federal Trade Commission (FTC) orders to hand over data regarding patient billing, employee wage data,...
