The Trump administration forced out the head of the Justice Department’s antitrust division after clashes with top officials. Gail Slater, 54, announced on Thursday that she was leaving her role as ...
In M&A transactions with foreseeable closing risk, buyers and sellers often negotiate for a reverse break-up fee. Antitrust-related reverse break-up fees are termination fees payable by the buyer to ...
John Harkrider and Craig Minerva both joined Kirkland on Monday from Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider. Several Big Law firms have been bringing in lateral talent lately, and both Harkrider and Minerva are ...
As the NFL faces an unprecedented political attack on its 65-year-old broadcast antitrust exemption, the league and its teams are for the most part saying nothing — especially not publicly. Beyond ...
Stanley Woodward, the third-ranking official at the Justice Department, recently said the Trump administration is trying to avoid taking antitrust cases to trial and is instead seeking settlements ...
Top firms are increasing the size of their antitrust practices as average deal values and U.S. competition surges, according to research in conjunction with Global Competition Review. "I think of ...
Good for Charlie Baker. Amid an upheaval in college athletics, the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s president has been taking a stand for the organization’s ability to define the boundaries ...
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The healthcare sector accounts for an increasingly significant component of the U.S. economy. Healthcare spending constitutes 18.0 percent of U.S. Gross Domestic Product and continues to outpace ...
Disgruntled Taylor Swift fans started the crusade to break up concert promotion behemoth Live Nation, Ticketmaster’s owner. But it’s a group of 34 ideologically disparate state attorneys general from ...
Michigan is taking on major oil and gas companies in court, joining nearly a dozen other states that have brought climate-related lawsuits against ExxonMobil and its industry peers. But Michigan’s ...
The antitrust division was instructed earlier this week to pause all work with the Canadian government, amid a trade dispute.