Bruce is a partner and head of Freshfields’ US antitrust, competition, and trade practice, based in the Washington, DC, office. Bruce has significant experience in merger control, conduct investigations, antitrust counseling, litigation and representation before the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission. He represents clients in a wide range of industries, including automotive, consumer products, defense, healthcare, manufacturing, mining, natural gas gathering and processing, oil and gas exploration and distribution and wholesale drug distribution.
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On April 28, 2023, a federal judge dismissed the third no-poach criminal case the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) had taken to trial. The DOJ indicted six engineering staffing company executives in December 2021, accusing them of restricting the hiring and recruitment of engineers in (...)
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On September 26, 2017 the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a complaint in the US District Court for the District of Delaware seeking to partially unwind a merger between two producers of aviation fuel filtration products. In its complaint, the DOJ (...)
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On August 13, 2015, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC or the Commission) issued a policy statement describing the enforcement principles that guide the agency’s exercise of its authority to prosecute “unfair methods of competition” under Section 5 of the FTC Act. The bipartisan statement (...)
