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Spring into 2025: Key Trends in Global Cartel Enforcement

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Despite geopolitical uncertainty and regime changes, global cartel enforcement has remained relatively steady over the last few years. That is not to say, however, that cartel investigations and private cartel enforcement...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Full Steam Ahead for Cartel Enforcement in 2024

As anticipated, cartel enforcement is ramping up at the start of 2024 and investigations relating to artificial intelligence (AI) are taking center stage. Leadership of both the broader Department of Justice (DOJ) and the...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

EU and UK Merger Regulators Look Beyond Horizontal and Vertical, With Digital ‘Ecosystems’ a New Focus

Key Points - - EU competition regulators are increasingly considering “ecosystems” of products and services in their analysis of the competitive impact of mergers — a framework that often does not fit with the historical...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Quarterly Cartel Catch-Up: Year-End Edition 2022

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In 2022, antitrust authorities around the world were pursuing more investigations, bringing new types of cases, and making policy changes to spark even more enforcement actions. In the United States, the Department of...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Cargotec/Konecranes: Failed Shipping Equipment Merger Illustrates Aggressive UK/U.S. Enforcement and Increased Skepticism of...

On March 29, 2022, global container handling equipment providers [Cargotec and Konecranes] abandoned their proposed $5 billion merger after the United Kingdom Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) and the U.S. Department of...more

Fenwick & West LLP

Historic Shift by the FTC on Vertical Merger Review, with More to Come

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In a departure from past enforcement priorities, the Federal Trade Commission has challenged three vertical mergers over the past year, leading the parties to abandon two of the three deals...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Quarterly Cartel Catch-Up: Recent Developments in Criminal Antitrust for Busy Corporate Counsel – Q4 2021

The end of 2021 continued to be a busy time for antitrust enforcers in the U.S. and around the world. Perhaps most notably, in November the Senate confirmed Jonathan Kanter to lead the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust...more

Haug Partners LLP

Lessons for 2022 – What to Take Away from the EU’s €2.4B Google Antitrust Fine

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On November 10, 2021, the European Union’s General Court issued a decision largely upholding the European Commission’s finding that Google abused its dominant position by favoring results from its own comparison-shopping...more

A&O Shearman

Antitrust in focus September 2021

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This newsletter is a summary of the antitrust developments we think are most interesting to your business. Marinus Winters, Counsel based in Amsterdam, is our editor this month. He has selected...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

Antitrust M&A Snapshot - August 2020

In the United States, despite requesting additional time to review pending mergers, the US antitrust agencies have continued their work through the COVID-19 pandemic. The Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Trade...more

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

U.S. and European Antitrust Authorities Provide Updated Guidance on Joint Activity During COVID-19

On March 24, the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division (the Antitrust Division) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) (collectively, the Agencies) issued a joint statement detailing a new expedited process for review...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

Antitrust M&A Snapshot - May 2019

UNITED STATES: JANUARY - MARCH 2019 UPDATE - In the first quarter of 2019, vertical merger enforcement continued to be a hot topic for the US antitrust agencies. The Court of Appeals upheld the district court’s decision in...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Skadden's 2019 Insights: US and EU Antitrust Enforcers Remain Active and Aggressive, With Some New Wrinkles

Antitrust enforcement agencies in the U.S. and Europe were once again busy in 2018, particularly in the area of merger review. In the U.S., despite new leadership at both the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Trade...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

Antitrust M&A Snapshot - July 2016

United States: January – June Update - The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and US Department of Justice (DOJ) have been actively challenging mergers and acquisitions in the first half of 2016. In some instances, the...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

"Key Takeaways - Antitrust in the Technology Sector: Policy Perspectives and Insight From the Enforcers"

On January 26, 2016, Skadden’s Antitrust and Competition Group and Charles River Associates hosted the sixth annual seminar “Antitrust in the Technology Sector,” with an emphasis on policy perspectives and insights from...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

"Antitrust and Competition: Trends in US and EU Merger Enforcement"

Merger activity in 2015 was at its highest level in years, and competition authorities in the U.S. and European Union continued to be very aggressive, challenging a number of high-profile deals in court and causing some...more

Cooley LLP

Alert: Top 10 Antitrust Developments and Trends to Watch in 2016

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Attention in the US during 2016 will be on the presidential campaign, and the election in November will bring a change in the "antitrust guard" at the top of the DOJ and FTC – even if a Democrat wins – that will drive the...more

Perkins Coie

Navigating the Unsafe Harbor: Keep Calm and Carry On

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The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued its landmark decision in Maximillian Schrems v. Data Protection Commissioner on October 6, 2015, ultimately invalidating the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor Framework. Under...more

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