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    • Thursday, 21 September, 2023
      Lina Khan
      Lina Khan: It’s time to halt roll-up schemes that violate antitrust laws

      Popular with private equity firms, they can have serious consequences for consumers, workers and businesses

      Lina Khan: antitrust laws work just as Congress intended and can be squarely applied to a wide range of business practices, including serial acquisitions
    • Wednesday, 20 September, 2023
      US politics & policy
      Republicans accuse Merrick Garland of bias in Hunter Biden case

      Criminal case against US president’s son is focus of contentious hearing with justice department’s top leader

      US attorney-general Merrick Garland testifies before the House Judiciary Committee
    • Tuesday, 12 September, 2023
      Google LLC
      US says Google pays more than $10bn a year to maintain search dominance

      High-stakes antitrust trial begins as US enforcers look to rein in Big Tech’s power

      The Google logo on a building in Zurich
    • Monday, 11 September, 2023
      News in-depthGoogle LLC
      Google prepares for biggest US antitrust showdown since Microsoft

      Trial will be first big test of more assertive enforcement strategies embraced by Biden administration against Big Tech

      A montage of a judges gavel, Jonathan Kanter, head of the Department of Justice’s antitrust unit, and the Google logo
    • Thursday, 7 September, 2023
      US-Iran tensions
      Owner of ship seized carrying Iranian oil pleads guilty in US court

      Case involving the Suez Rajan further threatens to raise tensions between Washington and Tehran

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    • Sunday, 20 August, 2023
      Corporate governance
      US regulators raise pressure on board members at competing companies

      Federal Trade Commission joins Department of Justice antitrust division in scrutiny of ‘interlocking directorates’

      US Federal Trade Commission chair Lina Khan, left, and US Department of Justice antitrust division assistant attorney-general Jonathan Kanter
    • Friday, 18 August, 2023
      Mergers & Acquisitions
      Bid for US Steel promises national security through consolidation

      Cleveland-Cliffs’ $10bn proposal would build scale but raise competition worries

      US Steel coke works in Clairton, Pennsylvania
    • Thursday, 17 August, 2023
      Inside BusinessRichard Waters
      Google vs the DoJ is a test case for reining in Big Tech

      For all the sound and fury in Washington, regulators have yet to score any big antitrust wins against Silicon Valley

      A neon Google sign in the company’s New York office
    • Wednesday, 16 August, 2023
      News in-depthDonald Trump
      Two prosecutors with one goal: holding Trump to account over 2020 claims

      Jack Smith and Fani Willis pursue parallel cases against the former US president

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    • Monday, 14 August, 2023
      UBS Group AG
      UBS pays $1.4bn to settle US mortgage bond mis-selling case

      Agreement resolves final case by federal task force set up to probe Wall Street’s role in causing 2008 financial crisis

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    • Sunday, 13 August, 2023
      Hunter Biden
      Hunter Biden’s lawyer says it is ‘not inevitable’ his case will go to trial

      Abbe Lowell blamed federal prosecutors for collapse of plea negotiations last month

    • Friday, 11 August, 2023
      Hunter Biden
      Hunter Biden plea deal talks collapse as special counsel appointed

      Move escalates case that has proven to be a political liability for US president

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    • Wednesday, 9 August, 2023
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      Musk’s X fined after fighting US warrant for Trump’s Twitter records

      Special counsel Jack Smith’s office had served request on social media platform as part of January 6 investigation

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      ‘Of course he lost’: Ron DeSantis dismisses Trump’s 2020 election claims

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      Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis at a speech in Iowa on Sunday, where Donald Trump supporters hold up signs bearing the former president’s name.
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      Google to face trial in US search monopoly case next month

      Judge dismisses some claims but allows others to proceed in suit filed by federal government

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    • Thursday, 3 August, 2023
      KPMG LLP
      US seeks to set aside convictions in KPMG audit scandal

      Prosecutors concede wire fraud charge cannot stand against former managing partner and PCAOB employee

    • Wednesday, 2 August, 2023
      Donald Trump
      Trump’s legal team calls push for speedy trial ‘absurd’

      Former president’s lawyer resists move to take 2020 election case to court in a matter of months

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    • Wednesday, 26 July, 2023
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      Joe Lewis appears in US court on insider trading charges

      Currency trader accused of tipping off associates including employees on his superyacht

      Joe Lewis
    • Wednesday, 19 July, 2023
      Mergers & Acquisitions
      New US antitrust guidance puts private equity and tech deals in focus

      DoJ and FTC unveil measures to protect competition in changing corporate landscape

      Assistant attorney-general Jonathan Kanter, centre, with attorney-general Merrick Garland, left, and associate attorney-general Vanita Gupta
    • Tuesday, 4 July, 2023
      US politics & policy
      Judge curbs US officials’ liaisons with social media groups

      Ruling claims federal government suppressed conservative speech

      Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry
    • Monday, 3 July, 2023
      LexMergers & Acquisitions
      US M&A: demand for more form-filling smacks of overkill Premium content

      Dealmakers say the information will be burdensome to collate and superfluous for vast majority of transactions

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    • Sunday, 2 July, 2023
      Private equity
      US private equity faces extra scrutiny under new merger review rules

      Antitrust agencies’ overhaul adds to growing checks on sector and will delay deals, say lawyers

    • Friday, 23 June, 2023
      Drug trafficking
      US brings first charges against Chinese entities over fentanyl ‘precursors’

      Prosecutors say defendants helped supply chemicals fuelling deadly opioid crisis that has killed thousands

      Merrick Garland speaks to media
    • Tuesday, 20 June, 2023
      Hunter Biden
      Hunter Biden hit with federal tax and firearm charges

      Republicans claim prosecutors were too lenient in case involving US president’s son

      Hunter Biden
    • Thursday, 15 June, 2023
      News in-depth
      Jack Smith: the federal prosecutor taking on Donald Trump

      Special counsel with a history of tackling complex and political cases takes on his biggest challenge yet

      Jack Smith
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