On October 13, 2011, the Department of Justice, Antitrust Division (“DOJ”), Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) (together, the “U.S. agencies”) and the Competition Directorate-Ge...
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 ...
On July 7, 2011, the FTC published on its website a notice of final rulemaking, setting forth substantial revisions and amendments to the Hart-Scott-Rodino (“HSR”) Premerger Notificat...
The memorandum is addressing recent changes to both the HSR premerger notification filing thresholds and the thresholds that trigger, under Section 8 of the Clayton Act, a prohibition pre...
On September, 24, 2010, the Antitrust Division of the US Department of Justice (“the Division”) announced that six firms — Adobe Systems Inc., Apple Inc., Google Inc., Intel Corp., ...
On August 13, 2010, the FTC published a notice of proposed rulemaking, setting forth substantial proposed revisions and amendments to the Hart-Scott-Rodino (“HSR”) Premerger Notificat...
The Department of Justice (“DOJ”) and Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) recently issued the final revisions to the Horizontal Merger Guidelines (the “2010 Guidelines”). The age...
On Tuesday, April 20th, the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) and Federal Trade Commission (“FTC)released proposed revisions to their Horizontal Merger Guidelines (“Guidelines”). T...
On January 21, 2010, the U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division (“DOJ”) announced that it had settled an action against Smithfield Foods, Inc. (“Smithfield”) and Premium S...
