Lauren Battaglia is a partner at Hogan Lovells in the global regulatory team and is based in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office. She develops pragmatic approaches to complex antitrust issues. Based out of Washington, D.C., Lauren Battaglia brings antitrust experience in merger clearance, non-merger investigations, litigation, and counseling. With a career that includes academic and professional experience in antitrust and competition issues on both sides of the Atlantic, Lauren understands the legal needs of large, multi-national companies navigating cross-border antitrust issues and investigations. While in law school, Lauren was honored to receive the Order of the Coif and graduate magna cum laude. Lauren also served as the Chief Comments Editor of the Washington University Law Review and gained real-world experience as a legal clerk at another international law firm. Following law school, Lauren was a Ph.D. candidate at Tilburg University in the Netherlands, where she researched the role of innovation at the intersection of sector-specific regulation and competition law in the pharmaceutical industry.
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On July 19, 2023 the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Department of Justice (DOJ) (“the agencies”) released their 2023 Draft Merger Guidelines (the “2023 draft guidelines” or the “revised guidelines”). The publication of the revised guidelines—currently available for public comment until (...)
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On July 19, 2023 the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Department of Justice (DOJ) (“the agencies”) released their 2023 Draft Merger Guidelines (the “2023 draft guidelines” or the “revised guidelines”). The publication of the revised guidelines—currently available for public comment until (...)
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On July 14, 2023 the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that it is withdrawing two antitrust policy statements related to antitrust enforcement in health care markets (the policy statements). Specifically, the FTC is withdrawing “safe harbors” for healthcare provider mergers, joint (...)
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On 5 January 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) for the Non-Compete Clause Rule. The proposed rule, if adopted, would effectively ban the use of non-competes with employees by making the use of such non-competes a violation of Section 5 of (...)
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On 18 January 2022 the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) held a press conference to announce a joint effort to modernize the horizontal and vertical federal merger guidelines “to better detect and prevent illegal, anticompetitive deals in today’s modern markets.” (...)
