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Primary merger review authority
The United States raised the federal antitrust review threshold to $133.9 million on February 15, 2026—up from $126.4 million the previous year. Companies planning mergers or acquisitions above this threshold must file premerger notifications with the FTC and DOJ and await government clearance before closing.
Updated 5 hours ago
Cleared the merger under Hart-Scott-Rodino review
MasterBrand and American Woodmark closed their $3.6 billion all-stock merger on May 28, 2026. American Woodmark holders received 5.150 MasterBrand shares for each Woodmark share, and the Nasdaq-listed company is being delisted as a wholly owned subsidiary.
Updated Yesterday
Reviewing transaction
Johnson & Johnson spun off its consumer health division as Kenvue in May 2023, creating the world's largest pure-play consumer health company. In less than three years, Kimberly-Clark and Kenvue shareholders approved a $48.7 billion acquisition absorbing Kenvue into Kimberly-Clark, the Kleenex and Huggies maker—with 96% and 99% voting in favor. On January 30, 2026, The Lancet published a study finding no evidence linking acetaminophen use during pregnancy to autism, contradicting Trump administration concerns that sent Kenvue's stock tumbling in late 2025.
Updated 6 days ago
Investigating Arm for potential monopolization
Arm Holdings designs the chip architecture found in roughly 99% of smartphones and a growing share of data-center processors. On May 6 it reported record quarterly results; five days later, Bloomberg revealed the Federal Trade Commission had opened an antitrust probe into how the company distributes those designs.
Updated May 20
Actively litigating against pharmacy benefit managers
On January 1, 2026, nonprofit Civica Rx launched insulin glargine pens at $55 a box; California debuted its CalRx-branded insulin the same day at the same price. Both undercut branded products by up to 90%: no insurance forms, no rebates, no hidden markups, just one transparent price for anyone, in a market three pharmaceutical giants control with a 90% share.
Updated May 19
Undergoing major policy shift on AI regulation
The FTC just tore up its own rulebook. On December 22, 2025, the agency voted 2-0 to reverse a year-old enforcement action against Rytr, an AI writing tool accused of enabling fake reviews.
Updated May 16
Scrutinizing tech consolidation; cleared Nvidia-Intel deal December 19
On Christmas Eve 2025, Nvidia paid $20 billion for Groq's assets—nearly triple the AI chip startup's $6.9 billion valuation from three months earlier. The deal brings Groq's founder Jonathan Ross, who created Google's original Tensor Processing Unit, and his breakthrough inference technology into Nvidia's fold. It's Nvidia's largest acquisition ever, nearly three times bigger than its $7 billion Mellanox purchase.
U.S. competition regulator conditioning Boeing–Spirit merger
On December 8, 2025, Boeing completed its $4.7 billion acquisition of Spirit AeroSystems, valuing the deal at about $8.3 billion including debt. The transaction reversed a 2005 spin‑off that created the world's largest independent aerostructures supplier.
Updated May 10
Test case for whether presidents may fire independent commissioners at will
In 2025, President Donald Trump challenged the 1935 Humphrey's Executor precedent by firing and removing independent agency officials before their terms expired.
Conducting extended antitrust review of IonQ-SkyWater deal
Quantum computing has spent four decades as a physics experiment with a marketing team. On May 6, 2026, IonQ reported $50 million in quarterly revenue — up roughly 556% from a year earlier — and reaffirmed full-year guidance of $225 to $245 million, putting one of the field's leading pure-play companies on track for a quarter-billion-dollar year.
Updated May 6
Plaintiff and enforcer in the settlement
In 2014, OkCupid quietly funneled nearly three million user photos — along with demographic and location data — to Clarifai, a facial recognition startup backed by OkCupid's own co-founders. Users never consented. OkCupid's privacy policy said this wouldn't happen. When a New York Times article exposed the arrangement five years later, OkCupid publicly denied it.
Updated Mar 30
Expected to conduct antitrust review of the deal
Sysco, the company that delivers food to roughly one in every six restaurants in America, announced on March 30 that it would buy Jetro Restaurant Depot—the nation's largest cash-and-carry wholesaler—for $29.1 billion. The deal would combine Sysco's truck-based delivery empire with Restaurant Depot's 166 warehouse stores where independent restaurant owners walk in, load a cart, and pay cash. If approved, it would create an omnichannel food distribution giant serving more than a million customers through both delivery and self-service.
Defendant, appealing district court ruling
The Hart-Scott-Rodino premerger notification form went largely unchanged for 48 years. When the Federal Trade Commission tripled its compliance burden in 2024, business groups sued—and a Texas federal judge just agreed with them.
Updated Feb 18
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