David R. Brenneman represents clients primarily in mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, and civil antitrust litigation. In the merger process, David works on premerger notification under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act, international merger control, merger investigations, second requests, and compliance with consent orders. David represents pharmaceutical, chemical, and financial services clients before the Federal Trade Commission and US Department of Justice, and he coordinates filings for multimillion- and multibillion-dollar transactions worldwide. David is a member of the Morgan Lewis Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) working group.
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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced on February 1 that it will lower the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act (HSR Act) jurisdictional and filing fee thresholds. Any transaction closing on or after March 4, 2021 will be subject to the revised thresholds. The new rules include a decrease in the “size (...)
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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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US antitrust laws already on the books facilitate rapid investment without government delay: important practical tools and rules for dealmakers and their counsel in the wake of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and the current economic challenges. Recently, leaders of both the US Antitrust (...)
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Transactions closing on February 27 or later will be subject to increased HSR Act jurisdictional and filing fee thresholds. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced on January 28 that it will raise the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act (HSR Act) jurisdictional and filing fee thresholds. Any (...)
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Transactions closing in mid-March will be subject to increased HSR Act jurisdictional and filing fee thresholds. On February 15, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that it will raise the HartScottRodino Act (HSR Act) jurisdictional and filing fee thresholds. Any transaction closing (...)
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On January 19, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that it will raise the Hart Scott Rodino Act (HSR Act) jurisdictional and filing fee thresholds. Any transaction closing on or after the effective date of the notice (30 days after the pending publication in the Federal Register) will (...)
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The DOJ will now treat wage-fixing and no-poaching agreements criminally. On October 20, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued guidance (the Guidance) signaling that they will bring enforcement actions for wage-fixing and no-poaching agreements under (...)
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