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Morrison & Foerster LLP

Quarterly Cartel Catch-Up – 2025 Mid-Year Global Review

Domestic and international enforcement agencies continue to sharpen their tools and maintain an aggressive posture in criminal antitrust enforcement. Recent actions by new antitrust leadership in the Department of Justice’s...more

Epstein Becker & Green

DOJ Antitrust Division Establishes Whistleblower Rewards Program

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The Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has announced that, for the first time, it will offer rewards to individuals who report antitrust crimes and related anticompetitive offenses....more

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European Competition Law Newsletter – August 2025

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UK CMA Proposes End to Information Exchange Case Against Housebuilders - On 9 July 2025, the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) provisionally accepted commitments to close a UK competition law investigation into...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Blowing the Whistle on Antitrust Crimes: DOJ’s Antitrust Division Announces First Whistleblower Rewards Program

Individuals now have a new incentive to blow the whistle on an antitrust cartel—the possibility of a monetary reward. The U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Antitrust Division has established its first whistleblower rewards...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Wilson Sonsini Global Cartel Law Quarterly Q2 2025

The firm is pleased to distribute the Wilson Sonsini Global Cartel Law Quarterly Q2 2025, which provides a summary of key cartel enforcement trends across the U.S., Europe, and beyond. A “cartel” under competition law is...more

Hogan Lovells

Air cargo defendant extradited to stand trial

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The Antitrust Division (Division) announced Monday that Maria Christina "Meta" Ullings, a Dutch national and former executive for Martinair Holland N.V., was extradited from Italy to the United States after being apprehended...more

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Bumble Bee CEO Convicted of Participating in Price-Fixing Conspiracy

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Global companies are paying greater attention to criminal antitrust risks – and with good reason.  We often dwell on the impact to a company of a major FCPA investigation.  A global criminal antitrust investigation often in...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

Cartel Snapshot - June 2019

The Department of Justice (DOJ) Antitrust Division announced three new investigations and several developments in its other investigations, including new investigations in the commercial flooring industry, online auctions for...more

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Price-fixing scandal ensnares ‘white-hat’ makers of lower-cost generic drugs

To paraphrase what a one-time colleague once wrote about her bosses: Never trust Big Pharma, never trust Big Pharma, never trust Big Pharma. Here’s some of the latest evidence why: Even the industry’s so-called “white hats,”...more

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"Single entity defense" under scrutiny in China

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On 20 July 2018, the new Chinese antitrust authority – the State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) – published two decisions sanctioning two ship tallying companies in Shenzhen for market partitioning and price...more

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DOJ Antitrust Corporate Dispositions May Protect Some Culpable Employees

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Most companies under criminal investigation by the Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice ("DOJ") eventually resolve their liability with the government short of going to trial, either by entering into a corporate...more

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EU Competition Newsletter - March 2017

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What Future for EU Public Procurement Law in the UK After Brexit? Those aficionados of the silver screen will remember comedians Laurel and Hardy and in particular their catchphrase 'Well here's another nice mess you've...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Enforcement Provides Important Update for Auto Industry

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For the last several years, the global auto industry has been rocked by unprecedented investigations and prosecution. Numerous international cartels, involving scores of companies and individuals, have engaged in...more

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Auto Parts Investigations Require Effective Antitrust Compliance Programs to Limit the On-going Risk

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Steady as clockwork, auto parts investigations around the globe are continuing. These investigations have exposed wide-ranging price fixing conspiracies. Prosecutors rely on well-organized global enforcement cooperation,...more

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The Dutch Competition Agency Focuses on Anticompetitive Signaling

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The Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) – the Dutch competition agency – has indicated that public statements about future market behavior could infringe competition law. This is the first time an EU...more

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