Raymond A. Jacobsen, Jr.
Subscribe to Raymond A. Jacobsen, Jr.'s PostsRaymond (Ray) A. Jacobsen, Jr., advises clients on mergers, acquisitions and complex antitrust litigation. He has significant experience in the defense, medical devices, biotech, consumer product, energy and health care industries. Ray heads McDermott’s Antitrust Practice. Read Raymond A. Jacobsen, Jr.'s full bio.
What a Second Trump Term Means for Antitrust Enforcement
By Raymond A. Jacobsen, Jr., Jon B. Dubrow, Joel R. Grosberg and Royce Brosseau on Dec 4, 2024
Posted In DOJ Developments, FTC Developments, Healthcare Antitrust, IP Antitrust, Mergers & Acquisitions, Monopolization/Abuse of Dominance
On January 20, 2025, President-elect Donald J. Trump’s administration will come into power. The McDermott antitrust and competition team has analyzed the first Trump term, compared it to the Biden administration’s actions, and reviewed statements from those involved in the upcoming Trump administration. While it appears that the new administration will be good for business,...
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New Premerger Notification Regime to Fundamentally Change M&A Strategy
By Jon B. Dubrow, Raymond A. Jacobsen, Jr., Lisa P. Rumin, Ryan Tisch, Noah Feldman Greene, Graham Hyman and Reese Poncia on Oct 16, 2024
Posted In FTC Developments, Mergers & Acquisitions
On October 10, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission issued new final rules governing the US premerger notification filing process. These rules – the first major overhaul to the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) filing form in the nearly 50-year history of the HSR Act – will fundamentally alter the premerger notification process. While the rules omit some of...
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New FTC, DOJ Merger Guidelines Create Challenges and Opportunities
By Jon B. Dubrow, Raymond A. Jacobsen, Jr., Ryan Tisch and Joel R. Grosberg on Dec 21, 2023
Posted In DOJ Developments, FTC Developments, Mergers & Acquisitions
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and US Department of Justice Antitrust Division (DOJ) issued their updated Merger Guidelines on December 18, 2023. These guidelines represent a significantly more enforcement-oriented approach than the prior guidelines, and they largely follow the contours of draft guidelines released in July 2023. Companies should be aware of the Merger Guidelines...
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Proposed Merger Guidelines Outline Fundamental Change of Approach to Merger Investigation and Enforcement
By Nicole Castle, Jon B. Dubrow, Noah Feldman Greene, Gregory E. Heltzer, Joel R. Grosberg, Raymond A. Jacobsen, Jr., Lisa P. Rumin, Ryan Tisch and Stephen Wu on Jul 25, 2023
Posted In DOJ Developments, FTC Developments, Mergers & Acquisitions
Mergers and acquisitions will continue to face strong headwinds at the Federal Trade Commission and the US Department of Justice under new proposed Merger Guidelines released on July 19, 2023. The Proposed Guidelines embody the antitrust agencies’ aggressive posture toward merger enforcement under the Biden administration. This On the Subject highlights the most significant changes...
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FTC Releases Proposed Changes to Premerger Notification Form and Process
By Jon B. Dubrow, Timothy (Ty) Carson, Joel R. Grosberg, Raymond A. Jacobsen, Jr. and Ryan Tisch on Jun 30, 2023
Posted In FTC Developments, Healthcare Antitrust, Mergers & Acquisitions
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has proposed, for comment, significant changes to the information and documents to be submitted with premerger filings—even in transactions that do not raise significant antitrust issues. The changes proposed may not take effect and may be different when finalized. But if promulgated as proposed, every Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) filing will be more difficult...
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Navigating the FTC’s Expanded Unfair-Competition Stance
By Gregory E. Heltzer, Graham Hyman and Raymond A. Jacobsen, Jr. on Nov 21, 2022
Posted In FTC Developments
On November 10, 2022, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) voted to approve a new policy statement interpreting the FTC’s authority under Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act, which prohibits “unfair methods of competition in or affecting commerce.” The newly adopted policy statement provides a significantly more expansive interpretation of the FTC’s authority and...
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What to Expect from FTC’S Big Tech Merger Review
By Jonathan Ende and Raymond A. Jacobsen, Jr. on Apr 28, 2020
Posted In Consumer Protection/Privacy, FTC Developments, Mergers & Acquisitions
On Feb. 11, the Federal Trade Commission announced that it had issued special orders to five large technology companies, requesting information on prior acquisitions completed by the companies during the past 10 years. The FTC’s announcement follows several recent high-profile events relating to technology mergers, including the FTC’s Hearings on Competition and Consumer Protection in...
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Lessons Learned – The State of Affairs in US Merger Review
By Raymond A. Jacobsen, Jr., Joel R. Grosberg, Jon B. Dubrow, Bilal Sayyed and McDermott Will & Emery on May 18, 2016
Posted In DOJ Developments, FTC Developments, Mergers & Acquisitions
In the last year, the US antitrust regulators successfully challenged multiple transactions in court and forced companies to abandon several other transactions as a result of threatened enforcement actions. Looking back at the different cases, there are some trends that we see developing in the government’s positioning on mergers, and these should be kept in...
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