Tag Archives: Mergers

The FTC Is Looking You Up and Down(stream): Insights From the Acting Director of the Bureau of Competition on Antitrust Enforcement for Vertical Mergers

Photo of Bill DeVinneyBy Bill DeVinney on Posted in FTC, Merger
Since Assistant Attorney General Delrahim’s inaugural remarks on vertical mergers (covered here), the business press has been atwitter about the antitrust enforcement agencies’ views of those mergers. Bruce Hoffman, the acting director of the Federal Trade Commission Bureau of Competition, recently delivered a speech explaining that the FTC will continue to review vertical mergers as … Continue Reading

The Trump DOJ’s View on Merger Enforcement and Remedies Explained

Photo of Danyll FoixBy Danyll Foix on Posted in Merger Review
President Trump’s head of the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division, Makan Delrahim, recently explained that the division will cut back on behavioral commitments such as consent orders regulating conduct and will instead rely more on structural changes such as divestitures to remedy merger concerns. This could signal significant changes in how the DOJ resolves concerns … Continue Reading

FTC Brushes Aside AG, Regulators to Attack Local Hospital Merger

Photo of Carl HittingerPhoto of Jeffry DuffyBy Carl Hittinger and Jeffry Duffy on Posted in Healthcare, Merger
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) continued its relentless focus on combinations in the healthcare industry last month when it filed an administrative complaint challenging a merger of two West Virginia hospitals, In the Matter of Cabell Huntington Hospital (FTC Docket No. 9366). Given the FTC’s recent successes in thwarting other healthcare mergers it saw as … Continue Reading

FTC’s Appellate Win Reflects Focus on Health Care Consolidation

Photo of Carl HittingerBy Carl Hittinger and Mitchell Oates on Posted in Antitrust Litigation, Articles, FTC Act, Healthcare, Merger
In an important victory for the Federal Trade Commission in the appellate courts, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit recently affirmed last year’s decision from the District of Idaho in Saint Alphonsus Medical Center v. St. Luke’s Health System, No. 14-35173, in which the FTC successfully sued to undo a 2012 merger … Continue Reading
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