In a speech on July 11, 2019, Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim of the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) announced that, for the first time, DOJ will con...
On May 13, 2019, the Supreme Court issued a 5-4 decision in Apple v. Pepper, holding that iPhone users have standing as “direct purchasers” under the Illinois Brick doctrine to sue Ap...
Yesterday, the D.C. Circuit affirmed the district court’s rejection of the DOJ’s challenge to the AT&T-Time Warner merger. Together with the district court’s ruling, the D.C. Circui...
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...
2018 marked the tenth anniversary of China’s Anti-Monopoly Law. While the past year saw little change in the substance of Chinese antitrust enforcement, it did bring potentially signifi...
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Please join us for a discussion on the latest developments on merger enforcement, including:
Recent trends in antitrust M&A in the U.S.
Vertical merger enforcement and the DOJ’s pla...
Through the first two weeks of November, the FTC convened the fifth, sixth and seventh of its Hearings on Competition and Consumer Protection in the 21st Century. Over six days, the prese...
In recent years, a new populist school of antitrust thinking has emerged, known as “Neo-Brandeisian” to its proponents and “hipster” to its detractors. There are varying formulat...
In March 2018, the Chinese government announced that the State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) would replace the tripartite structure established by China’s 2008 Anti-Monopo...
