Tag Archives: Antitrust & Competition

A multi-agency pharmaceutical task force looks to review antitrust issues that arise during mergers and acquisitions

A task force, composed of key antitrust enforcement agencies including the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and the Canadian Competition Bureau, is seeking information from the public regarding the effects of pharmaceutical mergers. This information will be used to update the practices for future pharmaceutical mergers by the task force’s constituent agencies.  Following concerns within the … Continue Reading

COVID-19 pandemic: German government further extends foreign investment control rules with regard to transactions in the life sciences sector

The German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy implemented further amendments to the Foreign Trade and Payments Ordinance (Außenwirtschaftsverordnung – AWV) due to the COVID-19 pandemic to prevent the buyout of German companies active in the life sciences and infection protection sectors by investors from outside the EU (or EFTA). The amendment entered into … Continue Reading

FTC’s Proposed Rule Changes Modify HSR Reporting Requirements for Pharmaceutical Exclusive Licensing Deals

Reed Smith’s Global Regulatory Enforcement Law Blog recently featured a post regarding the Federal Trade Commission’s proposed changes to the premerger notification rules to clarify when the transfer of exclusive marketing, sales and manufacturing rights to a patented pharmaceutical product requires notification to the agencies under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 (15 U.S.C. … Continue Reading
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