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Shifting Tariff Response Strategies: How Can Companies Avoid Antitrust Risk?

Morrison & Foerster LLP on 6/4/2025

In the current economic environment, where tariffs are being discussed, proposed, or implemented, with potential impact on many industries, companies are feeling pressure to rethink or adjust their pricing strategies....more

Regulatory Escalation in Pharma Sector: China Imposes First Executive Sanctions in a Cartel Case

Dacheng on 5/27/2025

On May 9, 2025, the Tianjin Municipal Administration for Market Regulation (“Tianjin AMR”) announced administrative penalties against four manufacturers of dexamethasone sodium phosphate (“DSP”) active pharmaceutical...more

China’s First Antitrust Enforcement Case Targeting Individual Liability: Strategic Guidance for Multinational Corporations

Morgan Lewis on 5/8/2025

The Administration for Market Regulation of Shanghai recently finalized penalties totaling RMB 223 million (approx. $31 million) against three pharmaceutical companies for colluding to fix prices and divide markets for...more

Quarterly Cartel Catch-Up – The Trump Administration’s Criminal Antitrust Enforcement Posture Takes Shape

Morrison & Foerster LLP on 4/29/2025

As previously predicted, the new year and change of administration in the U.S. brought a series of notable developments in criminal antitrust enforcement. Recent actions indicate that the new antitrust leadership in the...more

Q3 2024: Quarterly Cartel Catch-Up

Morrison & Foerster LLP on 10/22/2024

Despite the summer doldrums, cartel enforcers around the world had several notable enforcement actions and, perhaps more importantly, signaled a busy fall and winter. In the United States, the Department of Justice’s...more

DOJ Alleges Illegal Rental Price-Fixing in Antitrust Case

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck on 8/28/2024

In a highly anticipated move, the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) along with eight states filed a complaint against RealPage, Inc. for antitrust claims arising from its pricing software. The DOJ claims that RealPage has...more

Full Steam Ahead for Cartel Enforcement in 2024

Morrison & Foerster LLP on 4/4/2024

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

Litigation Financier’s Battle Against Sysco Provides Food for Thought

DarrowEverett LLP on 10/19/2023

Cloaked in secrecy, neither the terms of litigation financing agreements nor the attendant scuffles between financier and claimant, are typically aired in public. That changed for about four months of 2023, during which...more

DOJ Obtains First Divestitures in a Criminal Antitrust Case

Jones Day on 9/5/2023

The U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division ("DOJ") recently resolved a criminal case with Teva Pharmaceuticals and Glenmark Pharmaceuticals via deferred prosecution agreements ("DPAs"), which include a novel remedy for...more

The Last Remaining FX Defendant Prevails at Trial

Mintz on 4/6/2023

Introduction - Class Plaintiffs in the case of In re Foreign Exchange Benchmark Rates AntiTrust Litigation alleged that Defendant banks conspired to fix prices in the foreign exchange (“FX”) market in violation of Sections 1...more

Quarterly Cartel Catch-Up: Recent Developments in Criminal Antitrust for Busy Corporate Counsel - Q1 2022

Morrison & Foerster LLP on 5/10/2022

Since the last edition of the QCC, there has been a series of dramatic developments in the criminal antitrust enforcement space in the U.S. from the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division (Division)....more

Department of Justice Does the Two-Step and Announces Criminal Conspiracy Charges Against Aerospace Executives

The Volkov Law Group on 12/20/2021

When the Department of Justice warns businesses and individuals, everyone needs to listen and respond accordingly. Starting in 2016, the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division warned businesses that the Antitrust Division...more

Financial Daily Dose 10.8.2020 | Top Story: Feds fine Citi $400M over “Longstanding” Governance Failures

Robins Kaplan LLP on 10/8/2020

Federal regulators—including the Federal Reserve and the OCC—have fined Citigroup $400 million over “longstanding” failures in the areas of risk management, data governance, and internal controls. In addition to the fine, the...more

Teva Pharma Charged with Antitrust Conspiracy in Generic Pharmaceuticals Industry

The Volkov Law Group on 9/1/2020

Teva, the global pharmaceutical giant, was indicted last week as part of DOJ’s expanding criminal conspiracy investigation focused on illegal price-fixing and customer allocations....more

Financial Daily Dose 6.11.2020 | Top Story: Europe to Charge Amazon with Antitrust Violations Over Treatment of Third-Party...

Robins Kaplan LLP on 6/11/2020

The European Union’s antitrust authority is reportedly within days of filing charges against Amazon for the company’s “treatment of third-party sellers,” the latest step in a “two-year probe into Amazon’s alleged mistreatment...more

In Re Vitamin C: Supreme Court Rules Foreign Government’s Statement of Law Not Binding on Federal Courts

Perkins Coie on 6/20/2018

In a 9-0 opinion delivered by Justice Ruth Ginsburg, the United States Supreme Court last week ruled that the federal courts are not “bound to accord conclusive effect” to a foreign government’s statement of its own law under...more

Caught Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Second Circuit to Decide Appeal From Cartel Defendants Who Argued Compliance With...

BakerHostetler on 3/29/2016

On January 28, 2016, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit heard arguments on whether the doctrines of act of state, foreign sovereign compulsion, and international comity required the reversal of a jury’s...more

DOJ Sets its Sights on Antitrust Violations in the E-Commerce Marketplace

Bracewell LLP on 5/13/2015

The Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (Antitrust Division) continues to intensify and expand criminal enforcement of the antitrust laws. The results speak for themselves. In fiscal year 2014, the Antitrust...more

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