- Chief Compliance Officer and VP of Legal Affairs, Arrow Electronics
By Kyle Brasseur2023-07-19T21:39:00
New draft merger guidance put forward by the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) continues the agencies’ joint mission to modernize antitrust enforcement.
The guidance, published Wednesday, is open for public comment through Sept. 18. Within it are 13 guidelines the agencies said they might use when determining whether a merger is unlawfully anticompetitive under antitrust laws.
The guidelines reflect the most common issues that arise in merger reviews, according to a DOJ fact sheet. They detail the agencies’ focus on areas including:
2023-12-18T20:48:00Z By Kyle Brasseur
A long-running initiative by the Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission to modernize their joint merger guidelines reached its conclusion, following tens of thousands of public comments.
2023-10-27T16:25:00Z By Kyle Brasseur
It’s no secret the U.S. healthcare competition system has significant flaws. Where the debate exists is in determining the source of the issues and how to fix them, according to Deputy Assistant Attorney General Andrew Forman of the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division.
2023-09-21T20:38:00Z By Kyle Brasseur
The Department of Justice is gearing up to provide more guidance on voluntary self-disclosures in the mergers and acquisitions space and the role compliance should play.
2025-06-26T20:22:00Z By Oscar Gonzalez
In another sign of President Donald Trump’s focus on cryptocurrency, the head of the U.S. Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) ordered Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to create proposals to consider crypto assets for a single-family home mortgage.
2025-06-24T17:21:00Z By Ruth Prickett
Four years after Brexit, the U.K. and EU announced a “reset” that will ease barriers to importing and exporting food, drink, and agricultural produce. It may also harmonize rules around carbon emissions trading systems, simplifying compliance for multinational organizations that are large emitters, and enable more young people to gain ...
2025-06-20T14:20:00Z By Oscar Gonzalez
The U.S. Senate confirmed Olivia Trusty as commissioner for the Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday, marking a shift in agency staffing that gave commissioners nominated by President Donald Trump a majority of decision-making power. The move followed resignations of two commissioners earlier this month, each of whom had been nominated ...
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