Christopher Lynch

Under the Biden administration, the U.S. antitrust agencies are taking an aggressive approach to merger enforcement, and have outlined strategies that move away from historical merger rev...

Today, the Senate confirmed Alvaro Bedoya as the fifth FTC Commissioner, reinstating the agency’s Democratic majority and setting the stage for increased antitrust enforcement and polic...

DOJ and FTC leaders recently discussed several key merger enforcement initiatives, which reflect a continued focus on aggressive policing of proposed transactions.  Agency leaders appear ...

At a recent meeting of government enforcers and antitrust practitioners, Department of Justice (DOJ) officials outlined several initiatives reflecting a commitment to more aggressive crim...

At last week’s Enforcers Summit, leaders of various U.S. and international antitrust enforcement agencies set forth their enforcement priorities. The new heads of the U.S. antitrust age...

Amid an uptick in merger filings, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), led by Chair Lina Khan, and the Antitrust Division of Department of Justice (DOJ), led by Assistant Attorney General ...

Today, the Federal Trade Commission announced revised Hart-Scott-Rodino Act (HSR) reporting thresholds. Under the new thresholds, a transaction will be reportable only if, as a result of ...

The U.S. antitrust agencies report that merger enforcement activity increased during 2020, even as reportable transactions decreased from 2019. In related statements, FTC Democratic Commi...

President Biden signed an ambitious Executive Order on July 9, 2021, which pushes several federal agencies to advance competition principles in a range of economic sectors, and establishe...

As bipartisan support for antitrust reform gains steam, legislative proposals from both sides of the aisle have proliferated. To date, Congress has advanced to a vote only relatively mode...