- Chief Compliance Officer and VP of Legal Affairs, Arrow Electronics
By 
Dave Lefort2020-07-01T16:52:00
The FTC and DOJ jointly issued long-awaited vertical merger guidelines that will replace decades-old parameters to more accurately represent the agencies’ merger review process.
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The Federal Trade Commission voted to withdraw 2020 guidelines for vertical mergers for including what three Democratic commissioners described as “unsound economic theories that are unsupported by the law or market realities.”
The Federal Trade Commission, led by new chair Lina Khan, might withdraw its vertical merger guidelines finalized only last year at an upcoming open commission meeting.
With a changing of the guard, the Federal Trade Commission is undergoing some major restructuring on the antitrust front. All told, it’s not just Big Tech and pharmaceutical companies that should be on alert.
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Data brokers have been getting away with selling Americans’ personal and financial data without adequate protections, an illegal practice that a new rule proposed by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will intend to stop, CFPB Director Rohit Chopra said.
In striking down penalties against cryptocurrency mixer Tornado Cash for violating U.S. sanctions, a federal appeals court may have started to chip away at anti-money laundering regulations established by Democrats even before President-elect Donald Trump takes office.
