On June 14, 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that U.S. federal courts should only give “respectful consideration”–rather than conclusive deference—to a foreign government’s ...
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 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, ...
By a vote of 73-21, the Senate this evening confirmed Makan Delrahim to head the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. We expect him to assume his role as Assistant Attor...
