Davis Polk partners Arthur Burke, Arthur Golden, Ronan Harty, Jon Leibowitz, Neal Potischman, Howard Shelanski and Jesse Solomon and counsel Christopher Lynch and Mary Marks authored a ...
On November 6, 2019, the FTC unanimously found that a consummated 2017 merger of prosthetics manufacturers violated United States antitrust law, ordering the purchaser to divest completel...
The U.S. antitrust agencies have struggled for decades to provide comprehensive guidance on the antitrust treatment of so-called vertical mergers—generally, mergers of two companies at ...
The Federal Trade Commission recently obtained a fine from Third Point LLC and three of its funds for alleged violations of the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 that a...
Davis Polk partner Ronan Harty and counsel Mary Marks authored the “United States” chapter in the twenty-fourth edition of Getting The Deal Through: Merger Control. The book provides ...
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...
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...
