As Canada grapples with the impacts of COVID-19, Canadian businesses face a number of unprecedented challenges. The Competition Bureau recognizes that the exceptional circumstances surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic may call…

Mylan and Upjohn (a Pfizer company) revealed they have delayed the transaction due to meeting restrictions and concerns over staff health and safety during the COVID-19 pandemic. The deal is…

The Federal Trade Commission and the US Department of Justice Antitrust Division today issued joint statement detailing an expedited antitrust procedure and providing guidance for collaborations of businesses working to protect…

Commissioner of Competition Matthew Boswell issued the following statement today regarding the Competition Bureau’s enforcement during the COVID-19 coronavirus situation: “As Canada responds to the COVID-19 coronavirus situation, I would…

Federal Trade Commission Executive Director David B. Robbins issued the following statement: The FTC is taking a variety of measures to respond to the new and challenging circumstances associated with…

US antitrust officials are set to announce steps to speed approvals for companies that want to team up to help provide needed supplies to combat the coronavirus outbreak, according to…

Amazon.com Inc has started asking customers to cooperate with a Department of Justice criminal investigation of third-party sellers on its e-commerce marketplace, according to an email seen by Reuters. The…

The coronavirus pandemic has virtually eliminated shaking hands. Its economic impact now has investors doubting whether many companies which shook on mergers and acquisitions will see them completed.  Traders and…

By Anna Konradi Behrmann, Andrew Dettmer & Kathy Osborn (Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP) Businesses are taking drastic measures to protect consumers and employees during the COVID-19 (commonly referred…

National US law firms Troutman Sanders and Pepper Hamilton have postponed their agreed merger to July 1 in response to the coronavirus pandemic. The move comes in the same week…

With the final hurdle for their $63 billion merger cleared in the EU, AbbVie and Allergan were in the home stretch to close the deal. Then the novel coronavirus took off,…