Tag: Competition

1807005 Informal Interpretation

Date

July 31, 2018

Rule

802.21

You are correct that at least one share must be retained. Shares immediately sold under T+2 do not count as acquisitions.

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Commissioner Statements

Statement of Commissioner Rohit Chopra In the Matter of Your Therapy Source, LLC, Neeraj Jindal, and Sheri Yarbray

Date

July 31, 2018

Rohit Chopra, Former Commissioner

Statement of Commissioner Rohit Chopra (23.76 KB)

Therapist Staffing Company and Two Owners Settle Charges that They Colluded on Rates Paid to Physical Therapists in Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Date

July 31, 2018

A Texas company that provides therapist staffing services to home health agencies, its owner, and the former owner of a competing staffing company have agreed to settle FTC charges that they agreed to...

Your Therapy Source, Neeraj Jindal and Sheri Yarbray, In the Matter of

Type of Action

Administrative

Last Updated

July 31, 2018

FTC Matter/File Number

171 0134

Docket Number

C-4689

Public Statement

The Defense of Competition and Consumers in a Changing World: Reflections on a Decade of Competition Enforcement in China

Date

July 31, 2018

The Defense of Competition and Consumers in a Changing World: Reflections on a Decade of Competition Enforcement in China (66.58 KB)

Wilhelm Wilhelmsen, et al.

Type of Action

Federal

Last Updated

July 30, 2018

FTC Matter/File Number

171 0161

Report

The effects of physician and hospital integration on Medicare beneﬁciaries’ health outcomes

Date

July 27, 2018

We consider whether hospital acquisitions of physicians lead to improved clinical outcomes for Medicare patients aged 65 and older. The analysis combines 2005-2012 Medicare fee-for-service and...

The effects of physician and hospital integration on Medicare beneﬁciaries’ health outcomes (1.07 MB)

Public Statement

Keep It: Maintaining Competition in the Privacy Debate

Date

July 27, 2018

Keep It: Maintaining Competition in the Privacy Debate (214.06 KB)

Federal Register Notice

Granting of Requests for Early Termination of the Waiting Period Under the Premerger Notification Rules (June 2018)

Date

July 27, 2018

1807002 Informal Interpretation

Date

July 26, 2018

Rule

Item 4(c) and 4(d)

Your take on our published guidance may be a bit too broad, insofar as we do allow some documents to be excluded if they were created specifically for a potential buyer that is not a current party to...

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1807003 Informal Interpretation

Date

July 23, 2018

Rule

801.13

Yes, you must aggregate when Buyer enters an agreement to acquire 100% of the non-corporate interests of four LLCs that are all within the same acquired person.

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Statement by FTC Bureau of Competition Acting Deputy Director Haidee L. Schwartz on the U.S. District Court’s Grant of a Preliminary Injunction and Announcement from Wilhelmsen Maritime Services that It will Abandon Acquisition of Drew Marine Group

Date

July 23, 2018

Following a U.S. District Court ruling granting the Federal Trade Commission’s request for a preliminary injunction against Wilhelmsen Maritime Services’ proposed $400 million acquisition of Drew...

1807001 Informal Interpretation

Date

July 19, 2018

Rule

803.11

Yes, you can change your request for ET (by asking for it or withdrawing it). An email is fine, please send the email to the PNO person who reviewed the filing and copy the addresses above (premerger...

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FTC Requests Public Comment on Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc.’s Application to Approve Sale of a Retail Fuel Station in Saint Paul, Minnesota

Date

July 18, 2018

The Federal Trade Commission is currently accepting public comments on an application by Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc., or ACT, to divest a retail fuel station in Saint Paul, Minn. to Twin City...

Testimony

Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission: “Oversight of the Federal Trade Commission,” Before the Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, United States House of Representatives

Date

July 18, 2018

Joseph J. Simons, Former Chairman

Text of the Commission Testimony (142.4 KB)

Commissioner Statements

Statement of Commissioner Maureen K. Ohlhausen before House Energy and Commerce Committee

Date

July 18, 2018

Maureen K. Ohlhausen, Former Commissioner and Former Acting Chair

Statement of Commissioner Maureen K. Ohlhausen before House Energy and Commerce Committee (21.58 KB)

FTC Submits Statement to HHS on Its Blueprint to Lower Drug Prices

Date

July 17, 2018

The Federal Trade Commission responded to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ request for comment to its publication, Blueprint to Lower Drug Prices and Reduce Out-of-Pocket Costs. The...

Federal Register Notice

16 CFR Parts 801-803: Amendments to the HSR Premerger Notification Rules, To Clarify Them and Make Them Easier To Apply, and To Permit Use of Email In Specified Actions (See September 10, 2018 Correction to this Notice)

Date

July 16, 2018

1807004 Informal Interpretation

Date

July 13, 2018

Rule

Item 2 and Item 3

Yes, our guidance states that size of transaction can be expressed in a range as long as it does not straddle a filing fee threshold.

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