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In October, deputy attorney general Lisa Monaco made headlines when she announced a new leniency policy at the U.S. Justice Department for companies that disclose compliance violations discovered during mergers and...more
Antitrust practitioners from around the world gathered in Washington, D.C. the week of March 27, 2023, for a series of industry meetings, centered around the American Bar Association Antitrust Law Section’s 71st Annual Spring...more
UNIQUE GUN-JUMPING CASE SANCTIONED BY FRENCH COMPETITION AUTHORITY - A new European gun-jumping decision, following the European Court of Justice 2022 Marine Harvest judgment, sends a very strong message to companies that...more
This newsletter is a summary of the antitrust developments we think are most interesting to your business. Louise Tolley, PSL Counsel based in London, is our editor this month (learn more about Louise in our Q&A feature at...more
Canada’s abundant energy resources have played a central role in our country’s economic development and will continue to be extremely important to our prospects for growth and innovation in the future. Competition law...more
This issue includes summaries and associated court opinions of selected cases principally decided between October 2019 and January 2020. ...more
On February 4, 2020, Judge Catherine C. Blake of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland dismissed certain claims in a putative class action asserting claims under Section 10(b) of the Securities...more
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's new competition regime has gone into effect with potentially significant implications for businesses which are active in the Kingdom and those considering transactions with a Saudi component. The...more
Below we summarize significant cartel enforcement developments from U.S. and other antitrust enforcers in recent months, including: the Department of Justice Antitrust Division’s (the “Division”) review of its International...more
The American Bar Association’s 67th Antitrust Law spring meeting held earlier this month featured several sessions addressing the efforts of federal and state antitrust enforcement agencies, including a number of discussions...more
On March 5, 2019, the Government of Canada appointed Matthew Boswell as Canada’s new Commissioner of Competition. Mr. Boswell most recently served as Interim Commissioner of Competition, and has previously served in various...more
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati (WSGR) is pleased to present its 2018 Antitrust Year in Review, which summarizes the most significant antitrust matters and developments of the past year. In this report, we examine the Trump...more
ANTICORRUPTION DEVELOPMENTS - DOJ Extends FCPA Corporate Enforcement Policy to Misconduct in Mergers and Acquisitions - On July 25, 2018, in a speech to the Ninth Global Forum on Anti-Corruption Compliance in High Risk...more
WHAT HAPPENED - • The Wall Street Journal has reported that the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ) is currently investigating whether advertising sales teams for competing television station owners...more
Since 2013, the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association has faced a series of purported class actions consolidated in the U.S. District Court in Alabama. In a recent decision focused upon the appropriate standard of review, the...more
Message from the Editors - The holiday and new year period was not a quiet one in Australian competition law. Many of the recommendations from an extensive assessment of the Australian competition law were implemented. In...more
Bumble Bee Foods, and two of its senior vice presidents, have recently pled guilty to US Department of Justice (DOJ) charges that they engaged in a conspiracy to fix prices of shelf-stable tuna fish sold in the United States...more
In 2008, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division (“DOJ”) let Delta Air Lines merge with Northwest Airlines. Two years later, in 2010, the DOJ cleared United Airlines’ acquisition of Continental Airlines, after the...more
On 8 November 2016, the “Autorité de la concurrence” (French competition authority) provided a stark warning about the dangers of early implementation of a transaction prior to merger control clearance. This is one type of...more
Activist Investor Settles DOJ Premerger Notification Case for Record $11 Million - On July 12, 2016, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that it had reached a settlement in its landmark lawsuit against...more
FTC Raises Civil Penalty Maximums - On June 29, 2016, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) adjusted the maximum civil penalties for violations of 16 provisions, including the premerger filing notification violation...more
The Antitrust Division recently issued its 2016 annual spring update. Taking advantage of modern technology, Bill Baer—now the Acting Associate Attorney General serving in the DOJ’s third-highest ranking...more
FTC, DOJ Issue Statement on Preserving Competition in the Defense Industry - On April 12, 2016, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Antitrust Division issued a joint statement...more
On 23 March 2016, the Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) announced that it had fined four cold-storage firms for having put in place anticompetitive arrangements while in extended merger talks with one...more
McDermott has published an EU Competition Annual Review for 2015. This 87 page booklet will help General Counsel and their teams focus on the most essential EU competition updates for 2015. Beyond being used to understand...more