United States
Arnold & Porter
Courts resolved several significant criminal enforcement actions over the last year, with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) sustaining losses, particularly in labor market cases.
MoginRubin
In NCAA v. Alston, 141 S. Ct. 2141 (2021), the Supreme Court upheld a district court and subsequent affirmation by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in favor of players.
Crowell & Moring LLP
The new Horizontal Guidelines confirm that, as a general rule, competition law does not apply to the relationship between a joint venture (JV)...
Mintz
Welcome to this week's issue of AI: The Washington Report, a joint undertaking of Mintz and its government affairs affiliate, ML Strategies.
K&L Gates
After publication on 6 November 2023, the long awaited latest reform of German competition law has finally entered into force. Germany's Vice Chancellor and Federal Minister for Economic Affairs...
Axinn Veltrop & Harkrider
The Antitrust Division's ("Division") long-held view is that "individual criminal sanctions, including prison sentences, are the single most effective deterrent to antitrust crimes."
Squire Patton Boggs LLP
This report provides a snapshot of the U.S. Executive Branch priorities via daily schedules and the prior day's press releases.
Shearman & Sterling LLP
This article summarises developments over the past year in the US Department of Justice (DOJ) Antitrust Division's efforts to investigate and prosecute criminal cartel conduct.
MoginRubin
According to the DOJ, these are the first resolutions in this litigation that require companies to divest their pravastatin-related products. Pravastatin is a widely used cholesterol treatment medicine.
Jones Day
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")...
MoginRubin
A 2019 antitrust lawsuit against Berkshire Hathaway's Johns Manville (JM) brought by rival calcium silicate producer, Chase Manufacturing, also known as Thermal Pipe Shields (TPS), has been revived.
Morrison & Foerster LLP
At this mid-point of 2023, and now several months on from the ABA's Spring Antitrust conference, there have been several notable developments concerning cartel enforcement
Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton
The subject of corporate leniency as a tool for combating criminal conduct seems to be top of mind for federal prosecutors.
Winston & Strawn LLP
The GCR Live – Cartels 2023 conference took place on June 7, 2023, in Washington, D.C. The agenda included a keynote address by Manish Kumar, Deputy Assistant Attorney General...
Winston & Strawn LLP
In the United States, there are two major federal antitrust laws relating to cartels: Section 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act (15 U.S.C. § 1), which prohibits "[e]very contract, combination in the form of trust...
Squire Patton Boggs LLP
This report provides a snapshot of the U.S. Executive Branch priorities via daily schedules and the prior day's press releases.
Cooley LLP
There are many legitimate reasons why your company may wish to collaborate with one of its competitors.
European Union
K&L Gates
The Commission officials were accompanied by their counterparts from the relevant national competition authorities where the inspections were carried out.
Worldwide
Greenberg Traurig, LLP
FTC approves final order to prevent interlocking directorate arrangement, anticompetitive information exchange in EQT, Quantum Energy deal.
MoginRubin
The European Commission has informed French fashion house Pierre Cardin and a major licensee, The Ahlers Group of Germany, that they may be running afoul of EU antitrust rules...