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On June 30, 2020,  the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice (“DOJ”), along with the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) issued a finalized version of their new Vertical Merger Guidelines (the “Guidelines”). The Guidelines do not institute many significant changes to the enforcer’s approach to analyzing vertical mergers but rather attempt to memorialize the... READ MORE

Supreme Court Agrees to Hear ACA Validity Case Today, the Supreme Court agreed to hear a third major Affordable Care Act (“ACA”) case. The Court will consider whether a legislative change to the ACA’s individual mandate rendered the landmark law unconstitutional. Learn more from a recent Hall Render article here. By granting petitions from... READ MORE

The Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 (“HSR”), as amended, requires all persons contemplating certain mergers or acquisitions that meet or exceed the jurisdictional thresholds (shown below) to file notification with the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) and Department of Justice (“DOJ”) Antitrust Division and to wait a period of time before consummating the transaction.... READ MORE

On January 10, 2020, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) and Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) (collectively, the “Federal Antitrust Enforcers”) proposed their first new vertical merger guidelines (the “Draft Vertical Merger Guidelines”) in 36 years. The Draft Vertical Merger Guidelines, which will supersede and replace the 1984 DOJ “Non-Horizontal Merger... READ MORE

On June 24, 2019, the Trump administration changed the game for the health care industry through the release of an executive order on price transparency. Entitled “Improving Price and Quality Transparency in American Healthcare to Put Patients First,” the executive order is aimed primarily at giving patients access to price and quality information about... READ MORE