Question: Can a company have both an effective antitrust compliance program and an antitrust violation?
DOJ before June 11, 2019: Nope.
DOJ today: Yes, and your company may even get a deferred prosecution agreement if...more
7/15/2019
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Board of Directors ,
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Risk Mitigation
Fast Facts:
- The number of significant merger investigations was down 25% on both a YTD and RTM basis
- Only one significant investigation resulted in a complaint in 2017 YTD (two on an RTM basis), down about 80%
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Dechert’s Antitrust Merger Investigation Timing Tracker (DAMITT) is at it again compiling data from 2015.
Fast Facts -
- Merger investigations in 2015 took an average of
9.6 months to conduct (more than 1/3...more
Dechert’s Antitrust Merger Investigation Timing Tracker (DAMITT) finds that significant antitrust merger investigations in the U.S. currently are taking 10 months which is about 30%-40% longer than in prior years....more