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DOJ Settles with Greystar: Ending Algorithmic Pricing in Rental Markets
Doyle, Barlow & Mazard PLLC

Introduction On August 8, 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced a landmark proposed settlement with Greystar Management Services LLC, the largest landlord in the United States, to address allegations of anticompetitive practices in the rental housing market. This settlement targets Greystar’s use of algorithmic pricing schemes that allegedly stifled competition and drove up…

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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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Antitrust Scrutiny of Agreements Not to Compete For Employees
Doyle, Barlow & Mazard PLLC

Employers and Human Resource personnel need a crash course in the antitrust laws and an understanding of the antitrust risks of entering into no-poach agreements. What is a no-poach agreement?  A no-poach agreement is essentially an agreement between two companies not to compete for each other’s employees, such as by not soliciting or hiring them.…

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States Join in the Antitrust Assault on Big Tech
Doyle, Barlow & Mazard PLLC

On August 20, 2019, it was reported that the states are set to join forces to investigate Big Tech. On the same day, Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim of the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) said the DOJ is working with a group of more than a dozen state attorneys general…

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DOJ Allows a JV of 24 Banks to Create and Operate a New Payment System
Doyle, Barlow & Mazard PLLC

On September 21, 2017, the DOJ’s Antitrust Division issued a business letter stating that it would not challenge a proposal by The Clearing House Payments Company LLC (“TCH”), a joint venture of 24 U.S. banks, to create and operate a new payment system that will enable the real-time transfer of funds between depository institutions, at…

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Preventing Competitive Harm In AB InBev-SABMiller Merger
Doyle, Barlow & Mazard PLLC

DOJ’s Concern Regarding Vertical Foreclosure of Smaller Rivals On April 25, 2016, the DOJ submitted a proposed final judgment allowing the creation of New Charter as long as the parties agreed to certain behavioral conditions. The DOJ required conditions to resolve its concern that New Charter would have a greater incentive and ability to impose…

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DOJ Approves Charter’s Acquisition of TWC With Behavioral Conditions
Doyle, Barlow & Mazard PLLC

On April 25, 2016, the DOJ entered into settlement agreement approving Charter Communications, Inc.’s (“Charter”) acquisition of Time Warner Cable Inc. (“TWC”) and its related acquisition of Bright House Networks, LLC to create New Charter as long as the parties agreed to certain behavioral conditions. DOJ’s Vertical Concerns Related to the Creation of New Charter…

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Antitrust Division Decides Not to Challenge Expedia’s Acquisition of Orbitz
Doyle, Barlow & Mazard PLLC

On September 16, 2015, the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division (“DOJ” or “Antitrust Division”) issued a statement regarding it decision to close its six month investigation of Expedia’s $1.3 billion acquisition of Orbitz. The decision means that Expedia can close its acquisition of Orbitz to combine two of only three online travel agencies (“OTAs”) in…

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Mergers That Diminish Innovation Present Deal Risk
Doyle, Barlow & Mazard PLLC

On April 27, 2015, the Department of Justice’s (“DOJ”) Antitrust Division released a statement regarding Applied Materials Inc. (“AMAT”) and Tokyo Electron’s (“TEL”) joint announcement that they abandoned their merger.  The Antitrust Division’s statement indicates that the transaction was blocked because the combination would have diminished innovation.  In other words, the Antitrust Division was concerned…

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DOJ Obtains Disgorgement of Profits for Illegally Consummated Merger
Doyle, Barlow & Mazard PLLC

On March 16, 2015, the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) and New York State Attorney General announced that they reached a settlement with Coach USA Inc., City Sights LLC and their joint venture, Twin America LLC, to remedy competition concerns in the New York City hop-on, hop-off bus tour market.  This case is noteworthy because it…

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