Antitrust Enforcers Are Chilling Big Mergers May 10, 2023 By Leah Nylen and Michelle F. Davis The US government’s aggressive stance on antitrust is chilling merger activity among the country’s biggest companies, with some deals never...
Meta Faces Stiff Privacy Review as FTC Claims New Violations May 4, 2023 By Leah Nylen Meta Platforms Inc. was accused by the Federal Trade Commission of repeatedly violating privacy promises it made to US regulators...
Biden’s Antitrust Push Across Agencies Is Working to Block Deals March 17, 2023 By Leah Nylen The Biden administration’s strategy of leaning on industry regulators to block deals that might be tricky for the Justice Department...
JetBlue’s $3.8 Billion Spirit Deal Challenged in DOJ Antitrust Suit March 7, 2023 By Leah Nylen and Mary Schlangenstein The US Justice Department challenged JetBlue Airways Corp.’s $3.8 billion acquisition of Spirit Airlines Inc. Tuesday, filing an antitrust lawsuit...
FTC Is Preparing Potential Antitrust Case Against Amazon February 6, 2023 By Leah Nylen and Spencer Soper The US Federal Trade Commission is preparing a possible lawsuit against Amazon.com Inc. that could be filed as soon as...
FTC Aims to Clamp Down on Companies Engaged in Unfair Competition November 10, 2022 By Leah Nylen The US Federal Trade Commission plans to make wider use of its 1914 founding statute to police anticompetitive behavior by...
DOJ Antitrust Losses in Court Are Seen as Setback for Biden’s Merger Crackdown October 26, 2022 By Leah Nylen In the span of just a month, federal judges rejected the US Justice Department’s attempts to block three mergers in...
U.S. Sues Chicken Producers, Alleging They Conspired to Keep Wages Down July 26, 2022 By Michael Hirtzer and Leah Nylen US poultry producers Cargill Inc., Sanderson Farms Inc. and Wayne Farms LLC agreed to pay $84.8 million restitution for conspiring...
DOJ Poised to Rebuff Google Concessions, Clearing the Way for Antitrust Suit July 15, 2022 By Leah Nylen The US Justice Department is likely to reject concessions offered by Alphabet Inc., clearing the way for an antitrust lawsuit...
DOJ Antitrust Chief Warns S&P Global Over Insurer Ratings Tweak May 5, 2022 By Leah Nylen S&P Global Inc. should “carefully consider” a proposed tweak to how it assesses the creditworthiness of bonds owned by insurance...