Antitrust
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Scott Stempel
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Antitrust
The United States Supreme Court ruled yesterday in Credit Suisse Securities v. Billing that securities laws create broad immunity from antitrust lawsuits, ruling that antitrust laws do not apply to the syndicat... more
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Jürgen Beninca,
Christian Zschocke
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Antitrust
The United States Supreme Court yesterday overturned the 50-year-old pleading standard from Conley v. Gibson and held—7 to 2—that antitrust conspiracy allegations must be “plausible” to survive a motion to dism... more
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John Shenefield
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John Shenefield
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Izzet Sinan
Reproduced with permission from Law Business Research Ltd. This article was first published in Global Competition Review - The 2007 Handbook of Competition Enforcement Agencies (published in March 2007). For further information please visit www.globalcompetitionreview.com.
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Antitrust
Fewer transactions will require notification in Germany if a recent lower court decision holds up. The court that reviews Federal Cartel Office (FCO) decisions, the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court, recently br... more
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Antitrust
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced that it will raise the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act (HSR Act) jurisdictional and filing fee thresholds. The new thresholds are expected to be effective on or about February 22, 2... more
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John Everett, Jr.
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Willard Tom
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Mark Edwards
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Izzet Sinan
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George Cumming
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Antitrust
Both the Federal Trade Commission and the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice continue to scrutinize competitively aggressive transactions too small to be subject to the premerger notification requirements of the... more
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Antitrust
The European Commission (the Commission) has further strengthened the deterrent factor in fines for violations of European Community antitrust rules by issuing new guidelines (the Guidelines), designed to increase the level ... more
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Scott Stempel
LawFlash/Client Alert | Antitrust LawFlash
Antitrust
In another of a series of enforcement actions over pre-closing activities by parties to a merger, the Department of Justice (DOJ) last Thursday charged two companies with violating the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act (HSR Act) by givi... more
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Tonya Oliver
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Antitrust
In an extraordinary move, the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ) brought a criminal prosecution against CMET, Inc. (CMET) for obstruction of justice relating to the settlement of a merger case. The mer... more
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Antitrust
Clients contemplating mergers that have potential antitrust issues should be aware of some significant reforms to the merger review process announced yesterday by the FTC. The reforms, which take effect for FTC investigations resulting from Hart-Scott-Rodino filings submitted starting today, are intended to reduce the burgeoning time and cost associated with complying with so-called “Second Requests,” the often burdensome government demand for documents and information in the investigation of transactions that raise antitrust issues. The merger review process authorized by the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act permits the FTC or the Department of Justice (DOJ) to review the competitive effects of transactions over a certain size before the parties can close. DOJ has not yet issued a similar set of reforms but is widely expected to do so in the near future.
In part because of the explosion in the use of email and other electronic documents, the size of Second Request document pro
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Willard Tom
LawFlash/Client Alert | Antitrust LawFlash
Antitrust
On January 10, the Supreme Court issued its first secondary-line Robinson-Patman Act decision since Texaco v. Hasbrouck in 1990. Its decision in Volvo Trucks North America, Inc. v. Reeder-Simco GMC, Inc. pr... more
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Antitrust
Effective on February 17, 2006, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will raise the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act (HSR Act) jurisdictional and filing fee thresholds. The new rules include an increase in the size-of-transaction tes... more
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Willard Tom