The transaction kicked off a flurry of investigation and calls for stronger antitrust enforcement - but when you get right down to it, “film studio” is not Amazon’s core business, nor is it anything like the largest player in the space, and so regulators worldwide more or less said, “ugh, OK, fine,” and Amazon moved forward as if the FTC had, too. We saw something similar last year when Amazon acquired MGM Studios.

There’s no guarantee the FTC would open one, but for a transaction that both involves Amazon and is valued at more than $1 billion, there’s definitely a non-zero chance it would. That “second request” is basically where a formality turns into an investigation. That filing kicks off a 30-day waiting period that regulators can resolve one of three ways: They can grant early termination, meaning they have no issues with the transaction they can file a second request for information, kicking off an actual probe or they can do nothing at all, and simply let the waiting period expire. Companies planning a merger or acquisition above a certain threshold - $101 million for 2022 - must file their plans with the FTC before completing the transaction. So are antitrust regulators going to investigate this deal?Īmazon definitely has to file paperwork about the deal with the FTC, there’s no way around that. alleging Amazon’s behavior around its third-party marketplace vendors violates antitrust law. The European Commission is likewise investigating if Amazon’s behavior with third-party vendors breaks competition law in the EU.Īmazon’s AWS business, which controls at least a third of the cloud services market, is also reportedly under antitrust scrutiny, and there are lawsuits underway in both Washington state and D.C. Although the FTC hasn’t filed a suit against Amazon yet, most observers expect the commission to tackle Amazon’s retail practices. Although Amazon is not the only company on the agency’s radar by a long shot, Khan came to national prominence with a 2017 Yale Law Journal article arguing for stronger antitrust enforcement against Amazon. One of the House staffers who authored that report was Lina Khan, who is now pushing an aggressive antitrust enforcement agenda as the FTC’s chair. (Apple, Alphabet and the company now known as Meta also got dinged in that report.) The House Judiciary Committee also recently asked the Justice Department to probe if Amazon had been truthful during the course of the investigation leading to that report. A House committee probing Big Tech issued a blockbuster report in late 2020 accusing Amazon of abusing its “monopoly power,” and saying the company should be split.

It sure is! The FTC has been probing Amazon since June 2019 at least, and the investigations are reportedly still going strong.Īmazon is also in trouble with Congress. MedicX Fund bought the company in June 2018 for £63.8 million.Isn’t Amazon already under antitrust investigation? She also highlighted the battle against rising demand, saying that as many as 30% of patients access the wrong services. It had become much more attractive to GPs and nurses to be a locum worker. She pointed out that while politicians had claimed they would fund 8,000 new doctors and so many new nurses’, it takes 10 years to train a GP and a number of years to train a really good nurse. The group's chief executive Rachel Beverley-Stevenson was reported as saying that workforce supply and service demand were the key issues facing the NHS in the 2015 United Kingdom general election but they had not been tackled by any political party. It has a £42m healthcare property portfolio with 14 premises and 16 primary care centres. The company won a contract in April 2015 to run Derby Urgent Care Centre. It established an office in Westminster in 2014 when it won a contract to run a new NHS Urgent Care Centre in Bracknell. Rachel Beverley-Stevenson co-founded the group in 2004 and serves as the CEO. There is a primary care company of a similar name, One Medical, based in the USA. One Medical Group is an English primary care provider based in Leeds.

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