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House Committee on Small Business Urges FTC, DOJ to Consider Consequences of Recent Merger Guidelines on Early-Stage Companies
Bipartisan policymakers continue to raise concerns about the recently finalized 2023 Merger Guidelines and their impact on early-stage companies. Last week, the House Committee on Small Business wrote to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Antitrust Division of the...
‘Material Differences’ & ‘Less Burden’: FTC, DOJ Signal Forthcoming Changes to Proposed HSR Rules
Speaking to antitrust experts at the ABA’s 2024 Spring Antitrust Meeting, Andrew Forman, deputy assistant attorney general at the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Antitrust division, suggested that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and DOJ’s forthcoming changes to the...
Innovations Advanced by M&A: A Cure for Inherited Blindness
Across the United States’ world-class life sciences ecosystem, mergers and acquisitions (M&A) have become a vital bridge for companies to secure the resources, investment and expertise necessary to bring new treatments and cures to patients. Case in point: the 2019 merger between Roche and Spark Therapeutics that was instrumental in helping to expand the global reach of Luxturna, a first-in-class gene therapy approved as a one-time treatment for biallelic RPE65 mutation-associated retinal dystrophy – a rare, inherited form of vision loss.
FTC & DOJ Focus on ‘Nascent Competition’ Ignores Unique Market Dynamics in the Life Sciences
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Department of Justice (DOJ) have increasingly focused on the impact that mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the life sciences could have on “nascent competition” – the competition that might eventually exist between...
ITIF Report Finds Balanced Competition Policies Critical to Preserve U.S. Leadership in Biopharmaceutical Innovation
In its recent report “Not Again: Why the United States Can’t Afford to Lose its Biopharma Industry,” the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF) highlights the important role of balanced competition policies in establishing and maintaining U.S....