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Mergers & Acquisitions

Compass/Anywhere

Based on research to date, we expect Compass/Anywhere will receive a second request from the DOJ. Feedback from industry participants (who are not involved in the deal) as well as industry reports indicate that the combined company will have a dominant share of the luxury home brokerage services market at both a national and local level. We...

Treasury Secretary Bessent indicated that the administration may begin providing aid to farmers as early as this week, though reports indicate that this could slip, in part due to the government shutdown. Reports suggest that the administration is considering providing ~$10b in aid. Republicans, led by Sen. Grassley (R-IA), have been pushing the...

Fed Personnel/Litigation

Last week, the Supreme Court (SCOTUS) deferred a ruling on President Trump’s motion for stay on lower court rulings barring his firing of Federal Reserve Board Governor Cook. Rather than ruling on the President’s motion for a stay, SCOTUS has scheduled oral arguments on the matter for January. No official date has been set, but currently SCOTUS...

Government Shutdown

On Friday, the Senate took an additional vote on a House-passed “continuing resolution (CR)” that would provide appropriations through November and allow the government to re-open, but no Democrats voted for it beyond the three that had done so earlier last week. Seven Democratic votes will be required in addition to all Republicans to reach the...

Medtech/Tariffs

The Commerce Department launched a Sec. 232 tariff investigation into personal protective equipment (PPE), medical consumables and medical equipment, including devices. The Commerce Department will collect comments on the probe until 10/17 and are seeking input on the demand for such items now and in the future, the extent to which domestic...

Medicare Advantage

The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas has ruled in favor of Humana in its lawsuit challenging CMS's MA Risk Adjustment Data Validation (RADV) rule (which checks the accuracy of the diagnosis codes submitted by MA plans to recoup overpayments).