Corporate Compliance Insights

In April, a bipartisan coalition of 34 state attorneys general won a landmark jury verdict against Live Nation — after the DOJ settled its own case mid-trial. Weeks earlier, a separate multistate coalition persuaded a court to block the Nexstar-Tegna merger that federal regulators had already cleared. Michelle Mantine, who leads the antitrust & competition team at Reed Smith, spoke with CCI about what cases like these signal for companies that have built their compliance programs around federal enforcement priorities — and why that may no longer be enough.