{"id":21224,"date":"2025-01-30T16:36:39","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T17:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=21224"},"modified":"2025-01-30T18:27:58","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T18:27:58","slug":"u-s-sues-to-block-tech-deal-in-first-antitrust-action-of-trump-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=21224","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Sues to Block Tech Deal in First Antitrust Action of Trump Term"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The challenge to Hewlett Packard Enterprise\u2019s acquisition of Juniper Networks came as many in corporate America had expected a lighter touch under a new administration.<\/p>\n

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The Justice Department on Thursday moved to block Hewlett Packard Enterprise\u2019s $14 billion acquisition of Juniper Networks, the first deal to be challenged by antitrust enforcers during President Trump\u2019s second term.<\/p>\n

In a lawsuit filed in United States District Court for the Northern District of California, the government said the deal \u201crisks substantially lessening competition in a critically important technology market.\u201d The agency said that the deal would end a corporate rivalry in the wireless networking industry that resulted in lower prices.<\/p>\n

The suit came as many in corporate America had expected that a lighter touch under Mr. Trump would unleash a wave of deal making after four years of tough scrutiny by the regulators under former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. But the attempt this week to stop the tech deal suggests there may more consistency between the Biden and Trump administrations on antitrust enforcement than some had thought.<\/p>\n

Hewlett Packard Enterprise, or HPE, a business software and services company, announced the $14 billion takeover of Juniper last year, with hopes of combining its data centers with Juniper\u2019s networking business to take on giants like Cisco.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Regulators in Britain and the European Union cleared the deal this summer. But the Biden administration\u2019s antitrust enforcers had issued what is known as a \u201csecond request\u201d for more information, indicating scrutiny of the transaction.<\/p>\n

The suit was brought by Omeed Assefi, tapped by Mr. Trump to be the acting assistant attorney general for the Antitrust Division of the Justice Department. Mr. Trump\u2019s nominee for the top antitrust role, Gail Slater<\/a>, is not yet confirmed. Ms. Slater previously worked as policy adviser for Vice President JD Vance and during Mr. Trump\u2019s first presidential term. Mr. Vance has at times complimented the efforts of Lina Khan, Mr. Biden\u2019s trustbusting Federal Trade Commission chair, and has criticized big technology companies as \u201chaving too much power.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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The challenge to Hewlett Packard Enterprise\u2019s acquisition of Juniper Networks came as many in corporate America had expected a lighter touch under a new administration.The Justice Department on Thursday moved to block Hewlett Packard Enterprise\u2019s $14 billion acquisition of Juniper Networks, the first deal to be challenged by antitrust enforcers during President Trump\u2019s second term.In a lawsuit filed in United States District Court for the Northern District of California, the government said the deal \u201crisks substantially lessening competition in a critically important technology market.\u201d The agency said that the deal would end a corporate rivalry in the wireless networking industry that resulted in lower prices.The suit came as many in corporate America had expected that a lighter touch under Mr. Trump would unleash a wave of deal making after four years of tough scrutiny by the regulators under former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. But the attempt this week to stop the tech deal suggests there may more consistency between the Biden and Trump administrations on antitrust enforcement than some had thought.Hewlett Packard Enterprise, or HPE, a business software and services company, announced the $14 billion takeover of Juniper last year, with hopes of combining its data centers with Juniper\u2019s networking business to take on giants like Cisco.Regulators in Britain and the European Union cleared the deal this summer. But the Biden administration\u2019s antitrust enforcers had issued what is known as a \u201csecond request\u201d for more information, indicating scrutiny of the transaction.The suit was brought by Omeed Assefi, tapped by Mr. Trump to be the acting assistant attorney general for the Antitrust Division of the Justice Department. Mr. Trump\u2019s nominee for the top antitrust role, Gail Slater, is not yet confirmed. Ms. Slater previously worked as policy adviser for Vice President JD Vance and during Mr. Trump\u2019s first presidential term. Mr. Vance has at times complimented the efforts of Lina Khan, Mr. Biden\u2019s trustbusting Federal Trade Commission chair, and has criticized big technology companies as \u201chaving too much power.\u201dWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21226,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21224"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21227,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21224\/revisions\/21227"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}