Yesterday, the D.C. Circuit affirmed the district court’s rejection of the DOJ’s challenge to the AT&T-Time Warner merger. Together with the district court’s ruling, the D.C. Circui...
Today, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced revised Hart-Scott-Rodino Act (HSR) reporting thresholds under which transactions will be reportable only if, as a result of such trans...
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...
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...
