Ronan P. Harty

In November of 2013, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) promulgated a rule that required a Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act (“HSR Act”) filing when a transaction res...

In New York v. Actavis PLC, No. 14-4624 (2nd Cir. May 22, 2015), the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit became the first appellate court to address a pharmaceutical ind...

This year marked the sixth anniversary of China’s Anti-Monopoly Law (“AML”) and a year of significant developments for antitrust enforcement in China. China has three separate antit...

The memorandum addresses today’s announced changes to both the HSR premerger notification filing thresholds and the thresholds that trigger, under Section 8 of the Clayton Act, a prohib...

  Ronan Harty authors the United States chapter of Getting the Deal Through: Merger Control 2015, which covers the regulation of mergers and joint ventures in 77 jurisdictions worldwide. ...

The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) yesterday fined Berkshire Hathaway Inc. $896,000 to settle allegations that it violated the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act (the “H...

For only the second time since it began reviewing mergers and joint ventures in 2008, when China’s Anti-Monopoly Law (“AML”) came into effect, MOFCOM has blocked a proposed transact...

The Senate Judiciary Committee removed legislation from its agenda that would have made it more difficult for patent assertion entities (“PAEs”) to pursue infringement claims, likely ...

This special memorandum summarizes the major topics and information discussed by China’s three antitrust agencies during the “Antitrust in Asia: China” conference, co-sponsored by t...