In thefirst part of this article, we discussed the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) recently issued staff policy paper strongly urging states to avoid using Certificates of Public Advantage (COPA) which seek to immunize health system mergers that might otherwise violate federal antit...
On June 28, 2018, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) was signed into law. Becoming effective on January 1, 2020, the CCPA introduces many of the rights from the GDPR to California residents. Cincopa is CCPA-compliant and, as part of our commitment to protecting the privacy of our...
Interestingly, in several other merger cases, there have been no similar COPA-style settlement agreements and the AG has instead been involved with the FTC in seeking to block mergers that they viewed as violating antitrust law. These include the proposed Penn State-Hershey merger which the parti...
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