Section 7 of the Clayton Act, enacted in 1914 and amended in 1950, is the principal US antitrust statute governing mergers and acquisitions. Section 7 prohibits acquisitions of assets or ...
The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) yesterday fined Biglari Holdings, Inc., a publicly traded diversified holding company (“Biglari”), $850,000 to settle allegations that it viol...
On August 13, 2012, the Federal Trade Commission published a notice of proposed rulemaking, setting forth proposed amendments to the Hart-Scott-Rodino Premerger Notification Rules aimed a...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (the “Court”) recently potentially expanded the extraterritorial reach of the U.S. antitrust laws. Its unanimous en banc decision in ...
Brazil recently launched its revamped antitrust regime, which now requires, for the first time in Brazil, that parties to a merger or acquisition — including minority acquisitions — o...
On May 19, 2012, the Ministry of Commerce of the Republic of China (“MOFCOM”) conditionally cleared the acquisition by Google Inc. (“Google”) of Motorola Mobility Holdings, Inc. (...
New political administrations often come into office with assumptions, and sometimes clear statements, about how their approach to antitrust enforcement will differ from that of their pre...
In a sign of the growing importance of Chinese competition law to global M&A transactions, the Chinese Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) recently approved Western Digital Corp.’s acquisitio...
In many respects, 2011 can be considered the most significant year to date in the development of China’s antitrust enforcement regime since the Anti-Monopoly Law (“AML”) came into f...
The memorandum addresses recent changes to both the HSR premerger notification filing thresholds and the thresholds that trigger, under Section 8 of the Clayton Act, a prohibition prevent...
