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Almost 10 years after their formal introduction into EU competition legislation, commitment decisions appear to have become the European Commission's enforcement tool of choice when resolving abuse of dominance cases.

Check out Orrick's Antitrust and Competition Newsletter for all the latest news and analysis of antitrust happenings in Asia, Europe and the United States.

Each year, the federal antitrust agencies update the notification thresholds for the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act, or HSR Act.

As federal courts tighten the reins on private antitrust actions, some antitrust plaintiffs are focusing their attention on litigating in state court. And they are being creative about how to avoid removal to federal court.

In the newsletter below you will find our view on what to expect from the new European Commission in the New Year, a review of the Competition Commission of Singapore’s decisions in 2009 and how this will influence enforcement in the year ahead, and a discussion of judicial enforcement under the Antimonopoly Law of the People’s Republic of China.

United States antitrust law condemns very few types of agreements between businesses outright. That "per se" status is generally confined to agreements to restrain price or output that are made between participants at the same level of a market - i.e., conspiracies among competitors.

Two recent Federal Trade Commission (FTC) enforcement actions—Your Therapy Source and Grifols—provide insight regarding the antitrust agencies' treatment of a topic garnering increasing attention:

The "indirect purchaser" rule, which denies standing to indirect purchaser plaintiffs in federal antitrust cases, was the product of two remarkable decisions authored by the late Justice Byron White more than 30 years ago: "Hanover Shoe, Inc. v. United Shoe Machinery Corp." and "Illinois Brick Co. v. Illinois".

Cross-border mergers frequently trigger pre-closing antitrust reviews. Such reviews are complex and can be fraught with risk.

Competition authorities worldwide are intensifying enforcement across multiple sectors, from healthcare and renewable energy to automotive and technology. How are regulatory agencies coordinating—or diverging—in their approaches to merger review, algorithmic pricing, and cross-border transactions, and what does this mean for companies navigating an increasingly fragmented global enforcement landscape?

Discounts and rebates have been a longstanding practice of sellers in order to lure customers to buy their products.

After racking up record corporate criminal fines in three of the last four years, one might think that the Antitrust Division of the DOJ had made a strategic decision to focus more of its enforcement efforts on corporations.

For decades, the test was whether a tipper would benefit, directly or indirectly, from his disclosure of inside information.

For over two decades, the relationship between the state and federal antitrust enforcement authorities has varied from productive cooperative efforts to, at times, outright hostility.

La première convention judiciaire d'intérêt public, conclue entre le Parquet national financier et la banque HSBC Private Bank Suisse le 30 octobre 2017

In Jan. 2005, GOP leaders, buoyed by strong election results in 2004, began the first session of the 109th Congress with an ambitious legislative agenda. The first ten Republican bills introduced in the Senate concerned issues such as Social Security reform, tax-cuts, class-action lawsuit reform, and a comprehensive energy policy. While Republicans managed to pass much of their proposed legislation, including a federal energy policy that emphasized enhanced production, a Central American free-tr

On November 27, 2009, the Anti-monopoly Bureau of the Chinese Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) released the Measures on the Notification of Concentrations of Business Operators (the "Notification Measures") and the Measures on the Review of Concentrations of Business Operators (the "Review Measures").