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On 19 October, the UK Office of Fair Trading ("OFT") published for consultation two draft guidance documents intended to help businesses and company directors comply with competition law. Both documents provide a useful steer to businesses and their senior management grappling with this important issue.

This note briefly analyzes the scholarly work of Leemore Dafny, who recently has been appointed as the FTC's first Deputy Director for Health Care and Antitrust.

The Federal Trade Commission (the "FTC") has announced revisions to the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act ("HSR Act") thresholds, which will become effective sometime in February 2010 (30 days after they are published in the Federal Register, which we expect will happen shortly).

Less than a month after becoming the new Department of Justice ("DOJ") Antitrust Chief, Christine Varney has taken a giant step toward fulfilling her goal of "vigorously enforc[ing] the law" by announcing that the DOJ is withdrawing its Section 2 report.

Foreign competition authorities have long been concerned about the application of US antitrust law—in particular civil claims for treble damages—to conduct occurring outside the United States.

On July 14, 2016, the Department of Justice reached a settlement with parties to an asset acquisition that the DOJ said would create an unlawful

On January 19, 2017, the Federal Trade Commission announced the annual threshold adjustments for premerger filings under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 (15 U.S.C. § 18a) ("HSR").

As has already been widely reported, on 13 May 2009 the European Commission (the "Commission") announced that it had fined Intel Corporation €1.06 billion ($1.441 billion) for violating EC Treaty antitrust rules (Article 82 EC Treaty) on abuse of a dominant market position by engaging in illegal anticompetitive practices to exclude competitors from the market for Central Processing Unit computer chips (CPUs).

So, what evidence does the FTC staff look at to determine whether a transaction warrants a "second request"?

Oftentimes, intellectual property owners find that their IP is being infringed upon by various companies around the world whose identities may or may not be known to the intellectual property owners.

The Office of the United States Trade Representative has opened a comment period for businesses to identify non-sensitive products that could benefit from favorable tariff modifications...

Since the passage of the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, 15 U.S.C. §18(a) ("HSR Act"), the Antitrust Division frequently negotiates with merging parties as to appropriate potential relief that falls short of fully blocking a proposed merger.

Beyond well-known antitrust exemptions like state-action immunity and the baseball exemption, Congress has carved out numerous lesser-known immunities for specific industries and activities.

Every oil and gas exploration and production (E&P) company acquires oil and gas properties either directly from landowners or from other lessees.

The European Commission has launched a sector inquiry of the e-commerce sector in Europe. This is a far-reaching competition review of the sector by the European Union ("EU") competition authority.

The Competition Commission of India (CCI) yesterday published the CCI Regulations (Procedure in regard to the transaction of business relating to combinations), 2011 (‘Combination Regulations’).

There is no need to presume classwide impact if these factors are met, because the court set forth a mathematical proof of such impact, as in the following example.

The European Commission recently launched two sector inquiries in order to improve its knowledge of the markets in question and gather facts that may form the basis of later investigations against specific parties. The first sector inquiry will focus on banking and insurance services; the other will focus on gas and electricity provision.