Can price-fixing abroad be prosecuted criminally under the U.S. Sherman Act? The antitrust bar might well raise an eyebrow at the question. Since international cartels became a focus of the Department of Justice’s Antitrust...more
3/5/2013 - Cartels Criminal Prosecution Extraterritoriality Rules Price-Fixing SCOTUS Sherman Act
The recently announced merger of American Airlines and U.S. Airways creates a new carrier that is a behemoth by any measure. The combined airline will have revenues of $39 billion, slightly larger than the current revenue...more
2/22/2013 - Acquisitions Airline Mergers American Airlines Department of Transportation DOJ Reorganizations U.S. Airways
The Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Act requires qualifying companies to file a premerger notification with the FTC and Department of Justice Antitrust Division (the “Division,” and together with the FTC, the “Agencies”), pay a...more
2/14/2013 - FTC Hart-Scott-Rodino Act Premerger Notifications SEC
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