Stephen M. Pepper is a shareholder at Greenberg Traurig, LLP. He advises clients on the antitrust aspects of mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures. He has wide-ranging experience with the antitrust pre-acquisition reporting requirements of the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Act, including HSR Act implications of complex transactions involving private equity firms and hedge funds. He frequently advises clients on global merger clearance strategy for international transactions, including the coordination of international merger control filings and clearance efforts. Stephen has obtained antitrust clearance from the U.S. Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission, and foreign merger control authorities for transactions in a variety of industries, including healthcare, telecom and media, engineering, electronics, software, semiconductor equipment, chemicals, retail stores, food and beverage, banking, publishing, and consulting.
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Louisiana federal court rules that Louisiana hospital merger is exempt from HSR Act obligations.* On Sept. 27, a Louisiana federal court ruled that Louisiana Children’s Medical Center (LCMC) and a large health care system did not need to report its $150 million merger transaction to the FTC (...)
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FTC Sues Private Equity Fund and U.S. Anesthesia Partners Over Alleged ‘Roll Up’ Acquisitions, ‘Anticompetitive Scheme’* For the first time, the FTC has focused merger enforcement action on the so-called “roll up” strategy often employed by private equity firms investing in the health care (...)
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FTC reaches consent order with Amgen Inc. and Horizon Therapeutics plc with behavioral remedies to allow Amgen’s $27.8 billion acquisition of Horizon to proceed.* On Sept. 1, the FTC reached an agreement with merging parties Amgen Inc. and Horizon Therapeutics plc to resolve competitive (...)
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This article has been nominated for the 2020 Antitrust Writing Awards. Click here to learn more about the Antitrust Writing Awards. On Feb. 15 the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) published a notice to revise the premerger notification thresholds for mergers and acquisitions under the (...)
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This article has been nominated for the 2013 Antitrust Writing Awards. Click here to learn more about the Antitrust Writing Awards. Introduction The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (the “Court”) recently potentially expanded the extraterritorial reach of the U.S. antitrust (...)
