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Spring into 2025: Key Trends in Global Cartel Enforcement

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Despite geopolitical uncertainty and regime changes, global cartel enforcement has remained relatively steady over the last few years. That is not to say, however, that cartel investigations and private cartel enforcement...more

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DOJ Antitrust Division Continues Focus on Conduct in Labor Markets

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The Department of Justice (DOJ) Antitrust Division (Division), together with the Department of Labor (DOL) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), recently issued two new sources of guidance continuing the increased focus on...more

Mayer Brown

DOJ Antitrust Division’s Latest Compliance Guidance: Now Covering Civil Implications, Whistleblowing, Ephemeral Messaging, and AI

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The US Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Antitrust Division recently updated its guidance explaining how it currently evaluates, and will evaluate going forward, companies’ antitrust compliance programs when making criminal...more

DLA Piper

DOJ’s Updated Antitrust Compliance Guidance Focuses on AI, Ephemeral Messaging, and Whistleblower Protections

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The US Department of Justice (DOJ)'s Antitrust Division recently updated its guidance on the evaluation of corporate compliance programs for criminal antitrust violations (the Antitrust ECCP), which federal prosecutors use to...more

King & Spalding

DOJ Releases Updated Antitrust Compliance Program Guidance

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Last week DOJ published an updated version of its guidance on the Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs in Criminal Antitrust Investigations (“Guidance”). These updates refresh the guidance originally issued in 2019,...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Key Takeaways from the DOJ Antitrust Division’s Updated Compliance Guidance: It’s Not Just Criminal Anymore

The Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division (“Antitrust Division”) recently updated its Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs in Criminal Antitrust Investigations guidance document (“Antitrust Compliance Guidance”)....more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Race to Self-Report: U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division Updates Leniency Program and Revises FAQs, Including...

On April 4, 2022, the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division (the “Division”) announced noteworthy updates to its Corporate Leniency Program as well as its frequently asked questions (“FAQs”) that explain the Program,...more

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[Virtual Event] Corporate Compliance Enforcement Conference - April 6th, 8:55 am - 3:30 pm CDT

Learn from today’s enforcement leaders and get the answers to your most pressing questions - Want to take an unfiltered look at issues like global data protection, whistleblowing, and more from a prosecutor’s or...more

McDermott Will & Emery

[Ongoing Program] Session 3: Global Antitrust Developments - September 27th, 10:00 am - 11:00 am KST

KOREA WEBINAR SERIES 2021 - In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, our first Korea Webinar Series will be held as a virtual series, with four sessions taking place between September 8 – September 28, 2021. Though we cannot...more

McDermott Will & Emery

[Ongoing Program] Session 1: M&A Opportunities in US and Europe for Korean Investors (CFIUS/European FDI) - September 8th, 10:00...

KOREA WEBINAR SERIES 2021 - In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, our first Korea Webinar Series will be held as a virtual series, with four sessions taking place between September 8 – September 28, 2021. Though we cannot...more

McDermott Will & Emery

[Ongoing Program] Japan Webinar Series - Session 4: Trade Policy Outlook - June 3rd, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm JST

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McDermott is committed to provide insightful legal developments around the world to our Japanese clients. In light of that effort, Japan Webinar Series will be held between Thursday, May 20 – Thursday, June 3, 2021. This...more

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[Ongoing Program] Japan Webinar Series - Session 3: Global Internal Investigations - June 1st, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm JST

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McDermott is committed to provide insightful legal developments around the world to our Japanese clients. In light of that effort, Japan Webinar Series will be held between Thursday, May 20 – Thursday, June 3, 2021. This...more

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[Ongoing Program] Japan Webinar Series - Session 2: Compliance: How Will The United States DOJ View Your Compliance Program, And...

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McDermott is committed to provide insightful legal developments around the world to our Japanese clients. In light of that effort, Japan Webinar Series will be held between Thursday, May 20 – Thursday, June 3, 2021. This...more

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[Ongoing Program] Japan Webinar Series - Session 1: Global Antitrust Developments - May 20th, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm JST

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McDermott is committed to provide insightful legal developments around the world to our Japanese clients. In light of that effort, Japan Webinar Series will be held between Thursday, May 20 – Thursday, June 3, 2021. This...more

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

The Competition and Antitrust Law Enforcement Reform Act: Section-by-Section Analysis

On Feb. 4, 2021, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) introduced sweeping legislation to amend the federal antitrust laws. The 56-page Competition and Antitrust Law Enforcement Act would, among other things, strengthen pre-merger...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

New Antitrust Whistleblower Statute May Enhance Criminal Enforcement Efforts

Former President Trump signed into law the Criminal Antitrust Anti-Retaliation Act of 2019 on December 23, 2020. The law prohibits employers from retaliating against employees who provide information to a superior, to a...more

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Protection for Criminal Antitrust Whistleblowers Signed into Law

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Largely overshadowed by the rise in COVID-19 deaths and the January 6, 2021, siege on the Capitol, the Criminal Antitrust Anti-Retaliation Act of 2019 (“the Act”) became law on December 23, 2020. See 15 U.S.C. § 7a-3....more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

The REAL Trending Litigation Topics Regarding COVID-19: April 20-24, 2020

Another week brings another round of COVID-19-related lawsuits. We are identifying some early trends and provide a synopsis of the more relevant lawsuits below....more

BakerHostetler

Fuel Supply Bid-Rigging Prosecution Highlights Interplay of Whistleblower Statute and Antitrust Division’s Leniency Program

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On April 8, the Department of Justice (DOJ) Antitrust Division (Division), the DOJ Civil Division and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Ohio (collectively, the Government) announced a civil antitrust and...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

Senate Bolsters Protections for Antitrust Whistleblowers

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On October 17, the United States Senate passed S.2258, the Criminal Antitrust Anti-Retaliation Act of 2019 (“CAARA”). If enacted, it would amend the 2004 Antitrust Criminal Penalty Enhancement and Reform Act, which limited...more

Morgan Lewis

US Senate Passes Criminal Antitrust Anti-Retaliation Act

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The US Senate on October 17 unanimously passed S. 2258, the Criminal Antitrust Anti-Retaliation Act of 2019 (the Bill). The Bill, if enacted, would amend the Antitrust Criminal Penalty Enhancement and Reform Act of 2004, and...more

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Are Your Employment Practices in Breach of Antitrust Law?

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Authorities in various jurisdictions are stepping up enforcement against no-poaching agreements between employers. From training their HR staff in antitrust rules to reviewing their hiring agreements, employers should take...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Your Daily Dose of Financial News

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The Journal’s weekend report on Facebook’s role in the unauthorized use of data from 50 million users wreaked havoc on the ‘Book’s stock yesterday, with losses spreading across the tech sector (and fellow its FANGers in...more

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Antitrust "Whistleblower" Protection Legislation Reintroduced in the Senate

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On April 4, Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) introduced S. 807, the "Criminal Antitrust Anti-Retaliation Act of 2017." The legislation, co-sponsored by Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT), would prohibit employers from retaliating...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Senators Reintroduce Bill to Protect Antitrust Whistleblowers

On July 22, 2015, the Senate unanimously passed a bill that aims to protect whistleblowing employees who report antitrust violations from retaliation by their employers. The Criminal Antitrust Anti-Retaliation Act of 2015...more

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