Antitrust Law, Mergers & Acquisitions, & Trade Law Updates

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In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the  Department of Justice (DOJ) regulate antitrust and trade-regulations laws. From guaranteeing market monopolization doesn’t polarize the market, to regulating ‘no-poach’ antitrust agreements between employers, there are many regulations that govern this area of law. The National Law Review covers cases and news from the United States and internationally.

Joint ventures, structural issues, mergers, comparative advertising, price-fixing schemes, discrimination, and distribution constraints are among the different types of news readers will find on The National Law Review. The Antitrust Division of the DOJ highly regulates insider trading, company-organizational schemes, and monopolization by major companies, to regulate a fair and balanced industry for all companies in a given industry.

The International Trade Commission (ITC) regulates international antitrust laws, alongside other international government agencies. Illegal market trades, global competition law, international trade agreements, The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), and Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), are all governed by the US and international government agencies, to guarantee fair dealings internationally. The National Law Review has regular updates on NAFTA negotiations as wells as news regarding the TPP and the United States' role in the treaty.

The Committee of Foreign Investments in the United States is also in charge of the regulation of antitrust agreements and mergers and acquisition deals between US and international businesses. The CFIUS governs investments between two American companies, as well as US-based and international companies who contract in a purchase-sale agreement to determine fairness, and proper balance in negotiations between companies on the international level.

Due to the different laws in the US and around the world, there are many government bodies that regulate and govern the antitrust and trade regulation industry. Not only to maintain a fair balance between trade partners, but also to ensure market monopolization does not occur, allowing major corporations to eliminate smaller, local, and international competitors in their niche. The National Law Review keeps readers up to date with expert legal analysis on these issues.

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Recent Antitrust, Mergers, FTC & Unfair Competition News

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2020
Mind the Gap: Strategies for Addressing the Valuation Gap in European M&A Deals During and After COVID-19 McDermott Will & Emery
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2015
Joint Employer Status for Franchisors Sees Some Reprieve, But Not Enough Yet for Celebration Foley & Lardner LLP
Dec
2
2013
More On Asset Sales And The Attorney-Client Privilege Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
May
6
2016
N.Y. Court of Appeals Adopts Business Judgment Rule, with Conditions, for Going-Private Mergers Proskauer Rose LLP
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25
2020
Draft Vertical Merger Guidelines Aim To Increase Transparency And Consistency Barnes & Thornburg LLP
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16
2014
A View from Italy: New Italian Private Corporate Debt Rules—Opportunities for Foreign Investors Greenberg Traurig, LLP
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28
2020
Chancery Court Dismisses Complaint, Holding That Directors Were Not Conflicted in Approving a Merger Simply Due to the Threat of a Looming Proxy Contest K&L Gates
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2023
Big Tobacco Bets Big On Cannabis Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP
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NASAA Shuts Down Use of Acknowledgments and Questionnaires in Franchise Sales Process Polsinelli PC
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2022
Failure to Pay Distributions May Be Shareholder Oppression, but Not Always Norris McLaughlin P.A.
Sep
14
2018
NLRB releases draft joint employer rule rolling back Browning-Ferris Barnes & Thornburg LLP
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2020
COVID-19: M&A, Commercial Finance and General Contract Considerations Vedder Price
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15
2016
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27
2017
Chancery Court Dismisses Breach of Duty Claim and Denies Quasi-Appraisal Relief Sought by Stockholders after Merger K&L Gates
Apr
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2020
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A View from Twin Peaks Dickinson Wright PLLC
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2014
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The Real Tax Benefits of Inverting to Canada Bilzin Sumberg
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Poison Pills, NOL Poison Pills and the COVID-19 Pandemic Robinson & Cole LLP
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Raising Capital - What You Don’t Know Could Hurt You Lewis Roca Rothgerber LLP
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21
2023
Key Considerations for Environmental Transactions: Seeing the Forest and Not Just the Trees Beveridge & Diamond PC
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The Significance of Recent Delaware Court of Chancery SPAC Opinions McDermott Will & Emery
Dec
14
2018
Energy & Sustainability M&A Activity – December 2018 Mintz
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28
2023
Mid 2023 Delaware Corporate and M&A Law Update Greenberg Traurig, LLP
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Workplace Relations Risks to Franchisors and Holding Companies Rise K&L Gates
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3
2015
Franchisor and Franchisee: Two Peas In A Pod (But What Will The NLRB’s Ruling Really Produce?) ArentFox Schiff LLP
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1
2019
FTC Decision Highlights Growing Divide on Vertical Mergers Bracewell LLP
Mar
11
2021
Credit Union Acquisitions of Banks — Considerations for Bank Boards of Directors Jones Walker LLP
 

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