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Promoting Antitrust Compliance – The Antitrust Division’s Subtle Shift Regarding Corporate Compliance: A Step Toward Incentivizing...

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INTRODUCTION: A surprising feature of many corporate compliance programs is their limited emphasis on antitrust. Compliance efforts are a key feature of modern corporate governance initiatives, and it stands to reason...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Are Antitrust Compliance Programs Protected by Attorney-Client Privilege?

We’ve previously written about the components of effective antitrust compliance programs and the potential benefits corporations may achieve by adopting them. In drafting compliance programs, however, corporations should be...more

The Volkov Law Group

The Curious World of the Antitrust Division and Credit for Compliance Programs

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The Antitrust Division is a world unto itself. Ask anyone who works there (including me) or worked there and they will tell you that everyone refers to the Antitrust Division as “The Division,” like it is the only Division in...more

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Court Finds Attorney-Client Privilege Did Not Protect Antitrust Policy Disclosure

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For the first time within the Third Circuit, a court has added to the handful of decisions holding that the attorney-client privilege does not shield an antitrust compliance policy from disclosure in antitrust litigation. In...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Does a Compliance Program Matter to U.S. Antitrust Enforcers?

Two weeks ago Assistant Attorney General Bill Baer and Deputy Assistant Attorney General Brent Snyder of the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division gave speeches in which they commented on the role of corporate compliance...more

The Volkov Law Group

Four Ways to Improve Antitrust Compliance Programs

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In the era of global antitrust cartel enforcement, antitrust practitioners often scratch their collective heads and ask why is antitrust compliance so ignored by government enforcement agencies....more

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The Compliance Stepchild: Antitrust

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Let’s try and put this all in perspective. Last fiscal year, the Antitrust Division collected over $1 billion in criminal fines and sent a number of senior executives to prison. ...more

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