2018 marked the tenth anniversary of China’s Anti-Monopoly Law. While the past year saw little change in the substance of Chinese antitrust enforcement, it did bring potentially signifi...
Through the first two weeks of November, the FTC convened the fifth, sixth and seventh of its Hearings on Competition and Consumer Protection in the 21st Century. Over six days, the prese...
In recent years, a new populist school of antitrust thinking has emerged, known as “Neo-Brandeisian” to its proponents and “hipster” to its detractors. There are varying formulat...
In March 2018, the Chinese government announced that the State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) would replace the tripartite structure established by China’s 2008 Anti-Monopo...
The Federal Trade Commission’s (“FTC”) Hearings on Competition and Consumer Protection kicked off yesterday. FTC Chairman Joseph Simons opened the hearings, noting two major challen...
On June 14, 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that U.S. federal courts should only give “respectful consideration”–rather than conclusive deference—to a foreign government’s ...
On Monday, June 25, the Supreme Court by a 5-4 decision in Ohio v. Am. Express Co. held that American Express’s (“AmEx”) anti-steering provisions do not violate Section 1 of the She...
On May 29, 2018, the DOJ announced the largest-ever antitrust divestiture in the U.S. in connection with Bayer’s takeover of Monsanto. In addition to being newsworthy in light of its s...
On Monday, the Trump Administration announced its intent to nominate the fifth and final individual to fill the current vacancies on the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”): Rebecca Kell...
After a decade of enforcing different aspects of its antitrust laws through three separate bodies, China is expected to consolidate antitrust authority into a single agency as part of a b...
