The American Bar Association’s 65th Antitrust Law Spring Meeting held at the end of March included a number of sessions with representatives from federal and state antitrust enforcement agencies. In the first article in a...more
4/11/2017
/ Acquisitions ,
American Bar Association (ABA) ,
Antitrust Division ,
Discovery ,
Divestiture ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Hart-Scott-Rodino Act ,
Hospital Mergers ,
Joint Venture ,
Mergers ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Private Equity ,
Sherman Act ,
The Clayton Act ,
Unfair Competition
The past year has seen some significant and interesting challenges brought by the federal antitrust agencies in the merger space. There has been evidence for years of the agencies’ aggressive willingness to litigate. And...more
1/6/2017
/ Anthem Insurance ,
Antitrust Division ,
Antitrust Provisions ,
CIGNA ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Health Insurance ,
Horizontal Mergers ,
Mergers ,
Sysco ,
Trump Administration ,
US Foods
A federal court in Washington, D.C. issued an order blocking Staples' acquisition of Office Depot on the grounds that it would substantially lessen competition in the sale of consumable office supplies to national business...more
The American Bar Association held its 64th annual Antitrust Law Spring Meeting April 5–8, 2016, in Washington, D.C. Over 3,000 practitioners, enforcers, economists and academics from around the world came together to discuss...more
4/14/2016
/ Antitrust Division ,
Antitrust Investigations ,
Corporate Crimes ,
Criminal Investigations ,
E-Commerce ,
Enforcement Actions ,
FTAIA ,
Hart-Scott-Rodino Act ,
Hub-and-Spoke Conspiracy ,
Individual Accountability ,
Threshold Requirements
The Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice recently announced its first criminal antitrust prosecution in e-commerce. David Topkins was charged on April 6, 2015, with price fixing in violation of Section 1 of...more
On November 7, 2014, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a complaint and consent decree in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California requiring Flakeboard America Limited, Flakeboard’s parent...more
12/23/2014
/ Antitrust Provisions ,
Civil Monetary Penalty ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Disgorgement ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Flakeboard America ,
Gun-Jumping ,
Hart-Scott-Rodino Act ,
Sherman Act ,
SierraPine ,
Waiting Periods