A federal jury in Las Vegas has convicted Eduardo "Eddie" Lopez, a former executive of a home healthcare staffing company, on charges of wage-fixing and wire fraud. The conviction marks the first successful jury verdict for...more
4/24/2025
/ Acquisitions ,
Antitrust Division ,
Antitrust Violations ,
Convictions ,
Criminal Prosecution ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Disclosure Requirements ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Fraud ,
Healthcare ,
Mergers ,
Popular ,
Sherman Act ,
Wage-Fixing ,
Wire Fraud
The Egyptian Competition Authority recently published the first Egyptian guidelines on the process for obtaining amnesty or leniency from criminal prosecution for antitrust cartel violations, signaling the agency's intent to...more
8/3/2020
/ Amnesty ,
Antitrust Violations ,
Cartels ,
Competition Authorities ,
Confidential Information ,
Criminal Antitrust Litigation ,
Criminal Prosecution ,
Egypt ,
New Guidance ,
Risk Assessment ,
Whistleblowers
This alert describes the surprisingly broad antitrust defense – against federal and state antitrust actions – that Congress created in Section 708 of the Defense Production Act of 1950.
Recent media attention on the...more
In BritNed v ABB, the English Court of Appeal substantially reduced the UK's first award of damages in a so-called cartel damages claim brought for breach of European competition law. In so doing, the Court rejected calls for...more
11/11/2019
/ Antitrust Violations ,
Appeals ,
Breach of Competition Law ,
Burden of Proof ,
Calculation of Damages ,
Cartels ,
Compensatory Damages ,
Compound Interest ,
Damage Caps ,
Damages ,
Electricity ,
European Commission ,
Infringement ,
Lost Profits ,
Power Grid ,
Punitive Damages ,
Remittitur ,
Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) ,
UK
On October 7, 2019, California became the first state to enact legislation—Assembly Bill 824 ("AB 824")—rendering certain pharmaceutical patent litigation settlement agreements presumptively anticompetitive. This alert...more
10/18/2019
/ Anti-Competitive ,
Antitrust Violations ,
Burden-Shifting ,
Civil Monetary Penalty ,
Damages ,
Erie Doctrine ,
FTC v Actavis ,
Generic Drugs ,
Hatch-Waxman ,
Judicial Review ,
Patent Litigation ,
Pay-For-Delay ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Pharmaceutical Patents ,
Popular ,
Rebuttable Presumptions ,
Retroactive Application ,
Reverse Payment Settlement Agreements ,
Rule-of-Reason Analysis ,
State Legislatures