The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) yesterday fined Berkshire Hathaway Inc. $896,000 to settle allegations that it violated the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act (the “H...
For only the second time since it began reviewing mergers and joint ventures in 2008, when China’s Anti-Monopoly Law (“AML”) came into effect, MOFCOM has blocked a proposed transact...
The Senate Judiciary Committee removed legislation from its agenda that would have made it more difficult for patent assertion entities (“PAEs”) to pursue infringement claims, likely ...
This special memorandum summarizes the major topics and information discussed by China’s three antitrust agencies during the “Antitrust in Asia: China” conference, co-sponsored by t...
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The Threshold, Section of Antitrust Law, Vol. XIV, No. 2, Spring 2014
Last September, we circulated a
note highlighting the four merger challenges
that the U.S. antitrust authorities were then pursuing. At the time, we noted that these matters underscore...
The year 2013 marked the fifth anniversary of the implementation of China’s Anti-Monopoly Law (“AML”) and included a number of significant developments in each of the three antitrus...
The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) today published a notice to revise the premerger notification thresholds for mergers and acquisitions under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improv...
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The Threshold, vol. XIV, no. 1, Fall 2013, American Bar Association
Recent merger enforcement suggests that the U.S. antitrust authorities have engaged in detailed re-examinations of market definition in a number of industries in which the historical defi...
The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) has finalized amendments to the Hart-Scott-Rodino (“HSR”) Premerger Notification Rules (the “Rules”) aimed at clarifying – and effective...
