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Mar 31, 2021

2020 brought about rapid change in the American healthcare industry. Many hospitals and healthcare providers are turning to mergers as a means of providing improved health services to the population at scale. These consolidations, however, do not occur without setting off antitrust alarms. In this episode,...


Mar 24, 2021

The U.S.-China relationship continues to be a contentious one. Tensions over trade, technologies like 5G networks, and other issues flared over the past few years. What changes to international relations, if any, can the new presidential administration bring about, and what policies from the former administration will...


Mar 17, 2021

From due diligence to post-acquisition, there are various labor and employment issues that businesses should pay attention to in order to ensure smooth corporate transactions and integrations. Employee classifications and trade secret protections are two of several issues we explore in this episode with labor and...


Mar 10, 2021

The U.S. Senate has introduced legislation that presents dramatic changes to the current state of U.S. antitrust law, driven by the assumption that Big Tech as it has evolved currently constitutes a series of defined market monopolies.  But the Economist recently questions whether that assumption should be reconsidered...


Mar 3, 2021

Joining me this week for the podcast quarterly check in with Europe is International Competition specialist Oliver Heinisch from London.  We discuss the “New Europe,” tracking immediate impacts of Brexit on the United Kingdom (UK) and European Union (EU), and forecast the near-term future, from a legal...