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DOJ Antitrust Division Dismisses Suit Against Amex GBT Merger On Eve of Trial
Doyle, Barlow & Mazard PLLC

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Antitrust Division, under the Biden administration, filed a civil antitrust lawsuit on January 10, 2025, to block American Express Global Business Travel’s (Amex GBT) $570 million acquisition of CWT Holdings LLC. The case was dismissed by the DOJ in July 2025, just before a scheduled trial in September 2025,…

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Washington and Colorado Are the First Two States to Require Pre-Merger Notifications
Doyle, Barlow & Mazard PLLC

If your company is filing a premerger notification form with the Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission, do not forget to simultaneously file with relevant states that have enacted premerger notification laws. The first two states to enact these laws are Washington and Colorado. Washington Premerger Notification Law As of July 27, 2025, federal…

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DOJ Settles HPE/Juniper Networks Avoiding Trial
Doyle, Barlow & Mazard PLLC

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) reached a settlement with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and Juniper Networks on June 28, 2025, resolving concerns over HPE’s $14 billion acquisition of Juniper Networks. The settlement required HPE to divest its Instant On wireless networking business and license Juniper’s Mist AI software source code to independent competitors to…

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A Return to Merger Remedies: Trump Administration Shifts Antitrust Policy
Doyle, Barlow & Mazard PLLC

Introduction Under the Biden administration, U.S. antitrust agencies, particularly the Department of Justice Antitrust Division (DOJ) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), took a hardline stance against negotiated merger remedies. Instead of settling, they often challenged mergers outright or allowed deals to close without formal conditions, expressing doubts about the effectiveness of remedies like structural…

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Trump DOJ Should Reevaluate HPE’s Acquisition of Juniper: A Case for Competition and National Security
Doyle, Barlow & Mazard PLLC

The Department of Justice’s (DOJ) decision to challenge Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s (HPE) $14 billion acquisition of Juniper Networks is misguided and threatens innovation and U.S. competitiveness.  Gail Slater, the newly confirmed Assistant Attorney General for the DOJ’s Antitrust Division, should reconsider this decision and assess its broader implications for competition, innovation, and national interests. Facing…

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DIGITALIZATION IN CENTRAL AMERICA: STRATEGIES FOR REGIONAL TRANSFORMATION AND RECOVERY
Doyle, Barlow & Mazard PLLC

The Center for International Private Enterprise recently hosted an event on Digitalization in Central America: Strategies for Regional Transformation and Recovery. On June 10, 2021, the group, which focuses on supporting private enterprise and market-based democratic reform across the world, brought together four leaders from the George W. Bush Institute’s Central American Prosperity Project (CAPP)…

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7-Eleven Closes Speedway Deal at its Own Risk
Doyle, Barlow & Mazard PLLC

7 Eleven and Speedway  announced the transaction in August 2020.  The FTC issued Second Requests for information to the parties and investigated the transaction because it raised a number of competitive concerns in various local geographic markets.  The parties negotiated a divestiture of approximately 300 stores with the FTC staff to remedy the antitrust concerns. …

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DC Challenges Amazon’s Fair Pricing Policy
Doyle, Barlow & Mazard PLLC

On May 25, 2021, the D.C. Office of the Attorney General (DC AG) filed an antitrust complaint against Amazon.com, Inc. in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. The complaint accuses the company of monopolization and illegal restraints of trade. Interestingly, the complaint does not include allegations of federal antitrust violations. The complaint alleges…

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Is There An Antitrust Reform Coming Soon? What Will This Mean For Large Tech Firms?
Doyle, Barlow & Mazard PLLC

On March 18, 2021, the House Judiciary Committee’s Antitrust subcommittee had a hearing labeled “Reviving Competition, Part 3: Strengthening the Laws to Address Monopoly Power”. The hearing began with opening remarks from Representative David Cicilline (D-RI), who spoke about the limitations in current antitrust laws on the topic of market dominance, and remarks from Representative…

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Technology and Democracy after the “Great Deplatforming”
Doyle, Barlow & Mazard PLLC

Georgetown Law tech law and policy experts converged together on Friday, January 29, 2021, to discuss wide-ranged topics relating to technology, speech, and regulations in a democratic society. David Vladeck, Erin Carroll, Hillary Brill, and Anupam Chander were the representative speakers on this discussion streamed live over Facebook. The discussion began with revisiting the tragic…

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