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The Volkov Law Group

Department of Justice Prevails and Blocks Penguin Random House Acquisition of Simon and Schuster – Parties Abandon Transaction

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The Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division continues its aggressive pursuit of enforcement and recently succeeded in blocking a controversial acquisition in the book selling market.  After a string of losses in the merger...more

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DOJ’s Antitrust Division Begins Trials to Block Two Large Mergers

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The Justice Department’s Antitrust Division continues to push its aggressive civil and criminal agenda.  While the Division has lost several high-profile criminal cases in the chicken processing industry and the labor market,...more

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Stop the Presses: DOJ Sues to Prevent Monopsony Resulting from Penguin Random House Acquisition of Simon & Schuster

On Tuesday, November 2, 2021, the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia seeking to block an acquisition by Penguin Random House,...more

Vinson & Elkins LLP

DOJ Suit to Block Book Publishers’ Merger Indicative of New Antitrust Enforcement Regime’s Priorities

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On November 2, 2021, the United States Department of Justice (“DOJ”) filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to block the planned $2.175 billion merger between powerhouse publishing companies...more

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Justice Department Files to Block Penguin Random House’s Acquisition of Simon and Schuster

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The Justice Department filed a complaint in the US District Court for the District of Columbia to block Penguin Random House’s acquisition of Simon & Schuster.  Penguin Random House is the largest book publisher in the world...more

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Lost in the woods? Special treatment for the press, cooperative and savings bank associations and the timber industry in German...

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Current legislative changes in the German Competition Act and the Federal Forest Act bring a set of new antitrust exemptions. We briefly present them in our blog...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Apple Signals It Will Seek Supreme Court Reversal on E-Book Decision

Earlier this month, Apple signaled its intention to petition for writ of certiorari after the Second Circuit upheld Judge Cote’s decision to apply per se liability in analyzing the firm’s conduct with respect to e-books in...more

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