On Monday, June 25, the Supreme Court by a 5-4 decision in Ohio v. Am. Express Co. held that American Express’s (“AmEx”) anti-steering provisions do not violate Section 1 of the She...
On May 29, 2018, the DOJ announced the largest-ever antitrust divestiture in the U.S. in connection with Bayer’s takeover of Monsanto. In addition to being newsworthy in light of its s...
On Monday, the Trump Administration announced its intent to nominate the fifth and final individual to fill the current vacancies on the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”): Rebecca Kell...
After a decade of enforcing different aspects of its antitrust laws through three separate bodies, China is expected to consolidate antitrust authority into a single agency as part of a b...
Last year saw a high level of enforcement activity under China’s Anti-Monopoly Law (“AML”), which will mark its tenth anniversary in 2018. As discussed in our review, the year was n...
Today, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced revised Hart-Scott-Rodino Act (HSR) reporting thresholds under which transactions will be reportable only if, as a result of such trans...
On January 12, 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to decide whether and to what extent to defer to a foreign government’s interpretation of its laws in evaluating whether a foreign com...
Today President Trump announced the intent to nominate two individuals to the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”): Joseph Simons (as Chairman) and Rohit Chopra. Senate confirmation hea...
On September 26, 2017, the U.S. Department of Justice filed a federal antitrust complaint seeking partially to unwind Parker-Hannifin Corporation’s $4.3 billion acquisition of CLARCOR, ...
