Mergers & Acquisitions, Antitrust & Trade Regulation

EU Court Decision Significantly Reduces Cartel Fines in Marine Hose Investigation

by King & Spalding on 5/23/2013

On May 17, 2013, the EU General Court partially annulled a 2009 European Commission decision in the Marine Hose cartel case and significantly reduced the fine imposed on hose manufacturer Parker ITR by nearly 75% from 25.61...more

Weekly eDiscovery Top Story Digest - May 22, 2013

by Rob Robinson on 5/22/2013

Compiled by @ComplexD from online public domain resources, provided for your review/use is this week’s update of key industry news, views, and events highlighting key electronic discovery related stories, developments, and...more

Weekly eDiscovery Top Story Digest - May 15, 2013

by Rob Robinson on 5/15/2013

Compiled by @ComplexD from online public domain resources, provided for your review/use is this week’s update of key industry news, views, and events highlighting key electronic discovery related stories, developments, and...more

Glencore’s Long March to Take Over Xstrata

by Rebecca Campbell, Patrick Ma, John Tivey | White & Case LLP on 4/29/2013

At long last, Glencore has overcome the final regulatory hurdle and secured the approval of China’s Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) to acquire the 66 percent of Xstrata that it does not already own. But not before agreeing to...more

Hospital-Physician Mergers: Practical Issues and Steps to Minimize Antitrust Risk

by William Berlin | Ober|Kaler on 4/26/2013

Recently, hospitals have been actively acquiring primary care and specialty physician groups, resulting in the employment of those physicians. This trend has occurred largely in response to reimbursement changes and other...more

Unfiltered Orange - Weekly eDiscovery News Update - April 24 2013 - Orange Legal Technologies

by Rob Robinson on 4/24/2013

Recognized nationally in Forbes’ Law and Technology Blog as a leading source of trusted eDiscovery information, Orange Legal Technologies’ Unfiltered Orange newsletter is published weekly to provide legal and technology...more

MOFCOM Opens Public Consultation on Detailed Merger Remedies Proposals

by Siobhan Kahmann, Hai-Ching Yang | K&L Gates LLP on 4/19/2013

I. Introduction - Since the inception of China’s Anti-monopoly Law in 2008, the Ministry of Commerce (“MOFCOM”), the government authority responsible for merger review, has taken an active role in analyzing and...more

Unfiltered Orange | Weekly eDiscovery News Update – April 17, 2013

by Rob Robinson on 4/17/2013

Recognized nationally in Forbes’ Law and Technology Blog as a leading source of trusted eDiscovery information, Orange Legal Technologies’ Unfiltered Orange newsletter is published weekly to provide legal and technology...more

REGULATORY: EU Competition Law: European Commission clears the acquisition of TNK-BP by Rosneft

by King & Spalding on 4/16/2013

The European Commission (“Commission”) has approved without conditions Rosneft’s US$ 54.8 billion acquisition of TNK-BP. The Commission’s 8 March approval came two months after the Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service (“FAS”)...more

Unfiltered Orange | Weekly eDiscovery News Update – April 10, 2013

by Rob Robinson on 4/10/2013

Recognized nationally in Forbes’ Law and Technology Blog as a leading source of trusted eDiscovery information, Orange Legal Technologies’ Unfiltered Orange newsletter is published weekly to provide legal and technology...more

FTC Voids Confidentiality and Non-Compete Provisions in Non-Reportable Transaction and Requires Notification of All Future...

by Farrah Short, Bruce D. Sokler | Mintz Levin - Antitrust on 4/8/2013

Merger agreements often contain ancillary provisions that seem acceptable to the parties in the context of what they are obtaining from the transaction—and those provisions often do not get a hard look by antitrust legal...more

Antitrust and Competition Newsletter - April 2013

by Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP on 4/4/2013

In This Issue: - A Modern Look at The Nine Patent Licensing ‘No-Nos’ (Part Two): The Last Five ‘No-Nos’ *United States - Supreme Court Holds That Class Certification Under Rule 23(b)(3) Is Inappropriate...more

MOFCOM Requests Public Comments on Draft Provisions Related to Remedies Imposed in Conditional Approvals

by Becky Koblitz | Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 4/2/2013

Since the Anti-monopoly Law (“AML”) has come into effect in August 2008, MOFCOM has issued 16 conditional approvals requiring certain structural or behavioral remedies in order to prevent the anticompetitive consequences...more

Unfiltered Orange | Weekly eDiscovery News Update – March 27, 2013

by Rob Robinson on 3/27/2013

Recognized nationally in Forbes’ Law and Technology Blog as a leading source of trusted eDiscovery information, Orange Legal Technologies’ Unfiltered Orange newsletter is published weekly to provide legal and technology...more

FTC and Idaho AG Sue, Challenge St. Luke’s Acquisition of Saltzer Medical Group

by King & Spalding on 3/20/2013

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), together with the Idaho Attorney General, have filed a complaint (the “joint complaint”) under seal in Federal district court seeking to block the acquisition of Saltzer Medical Group P.A.,...more

“Wide-Ranging Investigation” Leads FTC and Idaho AG to Join Ongoing Antitrust Lawsuit Challenging Acquisition of Idaho’s Largest...

by Jonathan Lewis, Lee Simowitz | BakerHostetler on 3/19/2013

After dodging an attempt by two of its competitors to stop the closing of its acquisition of Saltzer Medical Group (“Saltzer”)—a for-profit, physician-owned, multi-specialty group comprising approximately 44 physicians...more

Unfiltered Orange | Weekly eDiscovery News Update – March 6, 2013

by Rob Robinson on 3/6/2013

Recognized nationally in Forbes’ Law and Technology Blog as a leading source of trusted eDiscovery information, Orange Legal Technologies’ Unfiltered Orange newsletter is published weekly to provide legal and technology...more

Insurance Antitrust Legal News - March 2013 • Volume 2, Number 2

by James M. Burns | Dickinson Wright on 3/5/2013

In This Issue: - MULTIPLE BILLS INTRODUCED IN CONGRESS TO REPEAL HEALTH INSURERS’ ANTITRUST EXEMPTION: Over the course of the last two months, four separate bills have been introduced in the House of Representatives...more

Supreme Court Limits State Action Immunity In Federal Trade Commission v. Phoebe Putney Health Systems

by Susan E. Foster, Cori Gordon Moore | Perkins Coie on 3/4/2013

In a closely watched decision, a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court has reversed an 11th Circuit decision that invoked the state action doctrine to prevent the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) from challenging a state hospital...more

High court scales back antitrust exemption

by Jarod Bona on 2/28/2013

This Daily Journal article analyzes the United States Supreme Court decision of Federal Trade Commission v. Phoebe Putney Health System, Inc, which held that a state's grant of general corporate powers to government entities...more

Supreme Court Reins in State Action Immunity

by Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell &... on 2/28/2013

Last week a unanimous Supreme Court issued its highly anticipated opinion in FTC v. Phoebe Putney Health System, Inc., addressing the "State action" exemption from application of the federal antitrust laws for the first time...more

Merger-To-Monopoly Held Not Protected By State-Action Immunity

by Matthew Hans, Mitchell Raup | Polsinelli on 2/27/2013

The U.S. Supreme Court on February 19th scaled back the "state action immunity" doctrine, siding with the Federal Trade Commission on an issue that had divided the lower courts and holding that a county Hospital Authority's...more

The Supreme Court Tightens Up State-Action Immunity: Justices Rule that Phoebe-Putney/Palmyra Transaction Is Not Immune from...

by Michael Denniston, Jay L. Levine | Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 2/27/2013

On February 19, 2013, the Supreme Court unanimously held that the effective acquisition of Palmyra Medical Center (“Palmyra”) by Phoebe Putney Health System, Inc. (“PPHS") in Southwestern Georgia was not immune from antitrust...more

Supreme Court Unanimously Rejects Antitrust Immunity in Hospital Merger Case

by Robert Buchanan, Jr., Michael Gass, Julia Hesse, Christine Savage | Choate Hall & Stewart LLP on 2/26/2013

What you need to know: The Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision siding with the FTC against a hospital merger in Georgia. What you need to do: Companies should conduct careful analysis before investing...more

Supreme Court Clarifies Antitrust Immunity For State-Sanctioned Conduct

by Daniel E. Hemli, Jacqueline R. Java | Bracewell & Giuliani LLP on 2/25/2013

On February 19, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court, in a unanimous decision, found that a merger of two Georgia hospitals was not immune from federal antitrust laws under the "state-action" exemption, reversing a decision of the...more

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EU Court Decision Significantly Reduces Cartel Fines in Marine Hose Investigation

Weekly eDiscovery Top Story Digest - May 22, 2013

Weekly eDiscovery Top Story Digest - May 15, 2013

Glencore’s Long March to Take Over Xstrata

Hospital-Physician Mergers: Practical Issues and Steps to Minimize Antitrust Risk

Unfiltered Orange - Weekly eDiscovery News Update - April 24 2013 - Orange Legal Technologies

MOFCOM Opens Public Consultation on Detailed Merger Remedies Proposals

Unfiltered Orange | Weekly eDiscovery News Update – April 17, 2013

REGULATORY: EU Competition Law: European Commission clears the acquisition of TNK-BP by Rosneft

Unfiltered Orange | Weekly eDiscovery News Update – April 10, 2013

FTC Voids Confidentiality and Non-Compete Provisions in Non-Reportable Transaction and Requires Notification of All Future...

Antitrust and Competition Newsletter - April 2013

MOFCOM Requests Public Comments on Draft Provisions Related to Remedies Imposed in Conditional Approvals

Unfiltered Orange | Weekly eDiscovery News Update – March 27, 2013

FTC and Idaho AG Sue, Challenge St. Luke’s Acquisition of Saltzer Medical Group

“Wide-Ranging Investigation” Leads FTC and Idaho AG to Join Ongoing Antitrust Lawsuit Challenging Acquisition of Idaho’s Largest...

Unfiltered Orange | Weekly eDiscovery News Update – March 6, 2013

Insurance Antitrust Legal News - March 2013 • Volume 2, Number 2

Supreme Court Limits State Action Immunity In Federal Trade Commission v. Phoebe Putney Health Systems

High court scales back antitrust exemption

Supreme Court Reins in State Action Immunity

Merger-To-Monopoly Held Not Protected By State-Action Immunity

The Supreme Court Tightens Up State-Action Immunity: Justices Rule that Phoebe-Putney/Palmyra Transaction Is Not Immune from...

Supreme Court Unanimously Rejects Antitrust Immunity in Hospital Merger Case

Supreme Court Clarifies Antitrust Immunity For State-Sanctioned Conduct

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