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Granting of Requests for Early Termination of the Waiting Period Under the Premerger Notification Rules (August 2019)
20191957: AEA Investors Fund VII LP; The BMS Enterprises, Inc.
Joint Statement of Commissioners Rohit Chopra and Rebecca Kelly Slaughter in the Matter of DTE Energy/Generation Pipeline
Concurring Statement of Commissioner Christine S. Wilson in the Matter of DTE Energy Co., Enbridge Inc., and NEXUS Gas Transmission LLC
BA Sports Nutrition, LLC (BODYARMOR sports drink)
Quaker Chemical Corporation and Global Houghton Ltd., In the Matter of
Chemical companies Quaker Chemical Corp and Houghton International Inc. have agreed to divest assets to a subsidiary of French multinational corporation Total S.A., to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that Quaker’s proposed $1.4 billion acquisition of Houghton would violate federal antitrust law. According to the complaint, the proposed acquisition would harm competition in the North American market for aluminum hot rolling oil and associated technical support services; and in the North American market for steel cold rolling oils, and associated technical support services. Steel cold rolling oils include sheet cold rolling oil, pickle oil, and tin plate rolling oil. Under the proposed settlement agreement, Quaker must divest Houghton’s North American aluminum hot rolling oil and steel cold rolling oil product lines and related assets to Total. On Sept. 12, 2019, the FTC announced that it has approved a final order in this matter.
1909004 Informal Interpretation
D. Blaine Leeds and SmileDirectClub, LLC v. Jackson, et al.
Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection; Comment Request (HSR Rules)
Google LLC and YouTube, LLC
Google LLC and its subsidiary YouTube, LLC agreed to pay a $170 million civil penalty to the Federal Trade Commission and the New York Attorney General to settle allegations that the YouTube video sharing service illegally collected personal information from children without their parents’ consent in violation of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act Rule (COPPA).
20191910: BCEC Port Holdings (Delaware), LP; Presidio, Inc.
LightYear Dealer Technologies, LLC, In the Matter of
LightYear Dealer Technologies, LLC settled Federal Trade Commission allegations that the auto dealer software provider failed to take reasonable steps to secure consumers' data, leading to a breach that exposed the personal information of millions of consumers.
1909001 Informal Interpretation
1909003 Informal Interpretation
Global Processing Solutions, Advanced Mediation Group, Lamar Snow, Jahaan McDuffie, and Glentis Wallace
In November 2017, the Federal Trade Commission charged a Georgia-based debt collection business with tricking people into paying money for debts they did not owe. A federal court temporarily halted the scheme and froze its assets at the FTC’s request. In September 2018, the operators settled the FTC’s claims and are now banned from the debt collection business and from buying or selling debt. The FTC mailed refund checks in September 2019 totaling more than $516,000 to 3,977 consumers as part of the settlement.