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In her keynote address at the 2025 Georgetown Law Global Antitrust Enforcement Symposium, Assistant Attorney General Gail Slater, head of the DOJ’s Antitrust Division, outlined how robust antitrust enforcement can drive innovation in the AI era. Speaking on September 16, 2025, in Washington, D.C., Slater emphasized that free market competition, supported by thoughtful monopolization remedies,…

On August 31, the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division (“DOJ”) filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois to block Deere & Company’s (“Deere”) proposed $190 million acquisition of Precision Planting LLC (“Precision Planting”) from Monsanto Company in order to preserve competition in the market for high-speed precision planting…

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…