Ryan Kantor is a partner with Morgan Lewis based in their Washington office. His practice focuses on federal and state government antitrust investigations, antitrust litigation, and counseling on antitrust and competition issues. Represents clients before the US Federal Trade Commission, US Department of Justice, state attorney general offices, and in federal and state courts. More than ten years of experience as a federal prosecutor and leader in the U.S. Department of Justice, including serving as assistant chief of the Healthcare and Consumer Products section in the DOJ’s Antitrust Division.
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The US Department of Justice (DOJ) Antitrust Division is withdrawing three enforcement policy statements that provided important guidance on the exchange of competitively sensitive information through third parties. The guidance previously created a safe harbor for market benchmarking surveys (...)
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The enforcement authority of the FTC is a topic of the critically acclaimed book by Concurrences "Rulemaking Authority of the US Federal Trade Commission". Click here to access the book. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued long-awaited guidance regarding its interpretation of the (...)
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The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently voted to withdraw its approval of the Vertical Merger Guidelines (the 2020 VMGs), which, as we covered in the past, the FTC and Department of Justice (DOJ) issued over a year ago on June 30, 2020. The vote on September 15, 2021 to rescind the (...)
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On December 8, 2020, Judge Gerald Pappert in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania denied a request from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Pennsylvania attorney general (AG) to preliminarily enjoin a proposed merger between Thomas Jefferson University (TJU) and (...)
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Building on an executive order issued by US President Donald Trump in June, the administration released a pair of broad and inclusive rules aimed at advancing price transparency in healthcare on November 15, 2019. Key themes emerging from the hundreds of pages of price transparency rules (...)
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This Concurrences special set of articles focuses on antitrust law and enforcement in the aftermath of the American Presidential Elections. It questions the changes and challenges expected in 2021 under the new Biden administration, and its impacts with respect to antitrust legislation and (...)
