10/6/2026 5:57:38 PM FTC Settles Price Discrimination Lawsuit Against Southern Glazer’s By Jan Rybnicek Tina Laritz Kara Reid On October 2, 2026, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) settled its lawsuit against Southern Glazer’s Wine and Spirits, LLC (Southern)...
10/2/2026 1:45:07 PM California's COMPETE Act: A New Frontier for State Antitrust Enforcement By Andrew Ewalt Manish Kumar Morag Elwis Kara Reid Matthew Steyl +2 more... Show less On September 30, 2026, Governor Gavin Newsom signed California Assembly Bill 1776, the Competition and Opportunity in Markets for a...
8/27/2026 2:36:07 PM FTC and Coalition of State AGs Settle Challenge to Zillow and Redfin Partnership By Justin Stewart-Teitelbaum Constance Forkner Kara Reid Chase Gordon +1 more... Show less The proposed settlement requires Redfin, which exited the provision of multifamily advertiser-facing internet listing services, to...
7/13/2026 5:06:37 PM FTC’s John Deere Settlement Signals Scrutiny of Aftermarket Repair Restrictions By Bruce McCulloch Julie Elmer Ashley Brown Kara Reid +1 more... Show less On July 8, 2026, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), together with the State Attorneys General for Illinois, Arizona, Michigan,...
6/18/2026 7:51:06 PM A Settlement and a Signal: What the OhioHealth Deal Means for the Future of Hospital Contracting By Constance Forkner Kara Reid Alex Nickol On June 16, 2026, the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division (DOJ), alongside the Ohio Attorney General (Ohio AG), filed a...
5/19/2026 9:33:07 PM Takeaways from the 12th Annual Spring Forum on M&A and the Boardroom By Ethan Klingsberg Thank you to the in-person attendees who once again filled the venue to capacity and to the hundreds who joined virtually at the 12th...
5/7/2026 2:27:07 PM Mixing Retail and Software: The FTC’s Blend of Structural and Behavioral Remedies in 365 Retail/Cantaloupe By Justin Stewart-Teitelbaum Kara Reid Eleanor Liu On May 1, 2026, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) approved 365 Retail Markets’ approximately $848 million acquisition of Cantaloupe,...
4/24/2026 5:54:07 PM Unscrambling the Egg? What to Watch in the Nexstar/Tegna Merger Challenge By Julie Elmer Justin Stewart-Teitelbaum Ellen Rosenblum Tyler Garrett Kara Reid Amy Cheng +3 more... Show less On April 17th, Judge Troy Nunley of the Eastern District of California issued a preliminary injunction (PI) prohibiting the further...
4/17/2026 7:01:06 PM FTC Noncompete Enforcement Turns to Pest Control By Christine Wilson Justin Stewart-Teitelbaum Kara Reid Mark Smith +1 more... Show less On April 15, 2026, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ordered Rollins, Inc. (Rollins) – a pest-control company that serves both...
4/7/2026 5:49:54 PM Life Sciences Round Up - Q1 2026 By Kristen Riemenschneider Madeleine Tavcar The first quarter of 2026 has been anything but quiet in the life sciences sector. Here are the top issues and trends we’ve noticed in...
3/30/2026 5:04:42 PM Another Hospital, Same Playbook: DOJ’s Case Against New York-Presbyterian Mirrors OhioHealth By Constance Forkner Kara Reid Alex Nickol On March 26, 2026, the US Department of Justice Antitrust Division (DOJ) brought a civil action against New York-Presbyterian Hospital...
3/23/2026 9:35:08 PM State AGs as Independent Enforcers: What to Glean from the Challenge to the Nexstar/Tegna Acquisition By Julie Elmer Ellen Rosenblum Kara Reid Amy Cheng +1 more... Show less March brought a one‑two punch for Nexstar’s proposed $6.2 billion acquisition of Tegna. On March 18th, eight state attorneys...
3/23/2026 5:53:19 PM FTC Promises Closer Scrutiny of Pharma Amid Patent Cliff By Jan Rybnicek Kristen Riemenschneider Constance Forkner Kaylynn Moss Emily Strickland +2 more... Show less Key Takeaways The FTC is intensifying scrutiny of practices that delay generic and biosimilar entry.Strategies that extend exclusivity...
3/20/2026 7:34:38 PM Federal Appeals Court Ruling Affirms Less Burdensome HSR Form is Back By Bruce McCulloch Andrew Cline Charles Ramsey Kara Reid Sandra Makeen +2 more... Show less On March 19, 2026, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit denied the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) emergency motion for a...
3/2/2026 4:18:17 PM FTC Issues Policy Statement on Age Verification: New Flexibility for Age-Verification Tech By Christine Wilson Nina Frant Abdiel Lewis Roger Li +1 more... Show less For years, websites and apps have faced a regulatory paradox: verifying a user’s age may be necessary to comply with the Children’s...
2/26/2026 4:57:27 PM Civil Antitrust Enforcement Awakens: DOJ and Ohio AG Take Aim at OhioHealth By Constance Forkner Kara Reid Alex Nickol On February 20, 2026, the US Department of Justice Antitrust Division (DOJ) and the Ohio Attorney General (Ohio AG) brought a civil...