On June 20, 2023, Jonathan Kanter, the Assistant Attorney General for the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division, gave a speech at the Brookings Institution outlining his thoughts on promoting competition…
I. Overview After many months of rapid-fire crypto-related enforcement actions from the SEC, April itself only had one notable complaint, which was filed against Bittrex. The most important development was…
On July 21, 2022, the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) and the Securities Exchange Commission (“SEC” or the “Commission”) announced parallel actions against a former Coinbase product manager, his brother, and…
On June 1, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York (“SDNY”) and the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”) unsealed an…
Yesterday, President Biden signed an Executive Order (the “Order”) outlining, as described in the accompanying Fact Sheet, a “whole-of-government approach” to harness the benefits, and address the potential risks, of…
On July 9, 2021, President Biden issued a sweeping Executive Order (the “Order”)[1] on competition. While the Order is directed to agencies across the federal government and will have wide-ranging…