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FTC Targets Private Equity in Challenge to Anesthesiology Roll-Ups – Duane Morris Life Sciences Law

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On September 21, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission sued U.S. Anesthesia Partners Inc. and Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe XI L.P., among other private equity funds, in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas under the antitrust laws. Specifically, FTC alleges that the defendants engaged in an anti-competitive scheme to consolidate anesthesia practices in Texas and to force other independent anesthesia groups into price-setting arrangements that violated Section 2 of the Sherman Act, Section 7 of the Clayton Act and Section 5 of the FTC Act.

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