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Biden signs executive order on competition, targets non-competes, killer acquisitions, pharma pay-for-delay deals

By Khushita Vasant
  • 09 Jul 2021 14:28
  • 09 Jul 2021 14:59
US President Joe Biden unveiled a sweeping executive order on competition today which boasts of strong measures such as encouraging a ban or limit on non-compete clauses, focusing antitrust enforcement on labor, agricultural, and healthcare markets, and asking federal agencies to challenge certain past mergers.
The order, which Biden signed

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Khushita Vasant

Chief Antitrust Correspondent, US


Khushita covers US antitrust enforcement and litigation for MLex. A former Brussels hand, she wrote about about antitrust & mergers for the Policy and Regulatory Report (PaRR), she has covered the EU's actions against Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon to name a few. Khushita specialises in tech and patent policy coverage which featured in the Concurrences Antitrust Writing Awards. Previously as a financial journalist for The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires, she wrote about monetary policy and the bond and currency markets. Khushita studied journalism at Mumbai University, and received an Erasmus Mundus scholarship for a masters from universities in Germany and Austria.

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