Successfully navigating antitrust agency investigations requires a familiarity with Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission processes, as well as insight into those agencies.
Employee noncompetes under fire by Federal Trade Commission. Regulation would implement sweeping ban on employee noncompete clauses across US with few exceptions. Regulation would apply to noncompetes with all employees and retroactively to existing noncompete agreements.
Manufacturing companies should actively prepare for heightened antitrust scrutiny of their business practices in 2023, including practices that have not traditionally garnered the focus.
On February 3, 2023, the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ) withdrew its nearly 30-year-old guidance on information exchanges in the healthcare industry.