GLG News by FTC Healthcare M&A Experts: Lawyers

The Supreme Court has chosen to grant review on several antitrust cases in the last couple of years and has generally expressed skepticism at per se approaches in favor of a more nuanced, supposedly fact-based approach.  Some of these cases involved quite narrow or specific factual circumstances,...

This merger is likely to attract a thorough antitrust review by the FTC because of that agency's concern with pharmaceutical sales and distribution generally, the magnitude of the transaction, and the fact that it may be a harbinger of future transactions of a similar nature.  The antitrust bar...

The question has been asked about the reasons behind treble (triple) damages in RICO private lawsuits.  The reasons were borrowed from antitrust law although damage calculations and determinations of injury are different.

The DOJ will conduct a thorough review of this proposed merger, as the parties have clearly expected and several influential midwestern Senators have virtually demanded by threatening to hold hearings of their own.  At most this appears to be a borderline situation that would be unlikely to lead...