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On Sept. 2, 2013, the European Commission approved the acquisition of Shell Deutschland Oil GmbH’s Harburg refinery assets by Swedish company Nynas AB, finding that, in the absence of the proposed transaction, the Harburg refinery would be closed.

The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California granted the request of 13 Democratic AGs to intervene in the court's review of a U.S. DOJ antitrust settlement regarding the $14 billion merger...

On October 18, 2017, a federal grand jury sitting in San Francisco indicted capacitor manufacturer Nippon Chemi-Con for participating in a multi-decade conspiracy to fix prices for electrolytic capacitors.

In this article for the American Bar Association Antitrust Law Section's Compliance and Ethics Committee newsletter, ..

The Acting Assistant Attorney General Joseph Wayland delivered a speech on Friday regarding how antitrust enforcement agencies can "balance patent rights, competition and innovation in the information age."

The U.S. Department of Justice has opened a new section focused on criminal antitrust enforcement to address the division’s workload.

Last spring, the Commission of the European Union issued new regulations and guidelines on the application of EU antitrust law to technology transfer agreements (Commission Regulation No. 772/2004 of 27 April 2004).

​The Dec. 30, 2013 issue of European Competition Journal contains a transcript of the "Antitrust Marathon V" roundtable event, which occurred in March in Rome.

The FTC reached a settlement with investment fund operator Biglari Holdings Inc. to resolved allegations that it failed to report an acquisition of shares in restaurant chain...

The Northern District of Texas dismissed an antitrust lawsuit that accused U.S. hotel companies and online travel agencies of fixing the prices of hotel rooms.

On January 5", 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (the "FTC") released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, which proposes the "Non-Compete Clause Rule" (the "Proposed Rule").

On Friday, October 18, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) gave notice that it would appeal Texas federal judge Ada Brown's decision to block its ban on employment noncompete agreements to the Fifth Circuit.

Florida's Attorney General has issued a Civil Investigative Demand to a major credit score issuer, investigating potential violations of the Florida Antitrust Act. The probe examines allegations of monopolistic practices including predatory pricing, illegal product bundling, and exclusionary contracts with credit bureaus that may have driven score prices from under $1 to as high as $10.

A federal court in Florida dismissed monopolization claims against the operator of the three largest online boat marketplace platforms, finding that while the defendant may possess monopoly power with roughly 75% market share, the plaintiff failed to adequately allege anticompetitive conduct. The court ruled that strategic acquisitions, contractual terms, and steep price increases—even exceeding 400% over a decade—do not constitute exclusionary conduct under Section 2 of the Sherman Act without

French competition authority, Autorité de la Concurrence, fined Apple a record $1.2 billion after their investigation found that Apple and its wholesale partners, Ingram Micro and Tech Data...

For over 30 years, Proskauer lawyers have worked with students from Francis Lewis High School in Queens to help prepare them for moot court competitions.

The Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice both announced that they will have limited staff on hand to accept Hart-Scott-Rodino premerger notification filings during the U.S. federal government shutdown.