The US Senate introduces Senator Hawley’s proposal for an important antitrust reform aimed at Big Tech, Big Banks, Big Telecom, and Big Pharma

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US Senate, Senator Hawley Introduces The ’Trust- Busting for the Twenty-First Century Act’: A Plan to Bust Up Anti-Competitive Big Businesses, Press release, 12 April 2021

US Senate, The Trust-Busting for the Twenty-First Century Act, Law no. SIL21441 PT0, 12 April 2021

Sen. Hawley's "Trust-Busting for the Twenty-First Century Act," introduced on April 12, 2021, takes aim at "Big Tech, Big Banks, Big Telecom, and Big Pharma" by proposing to curb mergers and acquisitions by large corporations and ease the way for prosecutors and private plaintiffs to prevail in antitrust litigation. Sen. Hawley's bill is the latest proposal for antitrust reform, following Democrat-led efforts such as the House Judiciary staff recommendations in October 2020 and Sen. Klobuchar's antitrust reform bill introduced in February 2021. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) proposes to substantially rewrite the US antitrust laws along the lines proposed by prominent Democrats, including Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and FTC Commissioner nominee Lina Khan. Sen. Hawley's plan would prohibit

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Kristen O'Shaughnessy, Jaclyn Phillips, Max Kalmann, Michael Kucharski, The US Senate introduces Senator Hawley’s proposal for an important antitrust reform aimed at Big Tech, Big Banks, Big Telecom, and Big Pharma, 12 avril 2021, e-Competitions March 2021, Art. N° 100417

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