United States: Antitrust/Competition Law

The NCAA and the Power Five conferences will pay $2.8 billion in damages to current and former student-athletes as a result of their settlement of the landmark antitrust litigation.

As the US Supreme Court noted almost ten years ago, digital platforms are the new public square.1 Today, however, competition for a prime soapbox location is difficult. Many argue that the relevant market ...

On 23 June, the European Commission ("Commission"), following a Phase II investigation, unconditionally approved the acquisition by Liberty Media Corporation...

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The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) recently announced Guidelines for Investigations and Enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA).

New factors for investigating and enforcing the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act were recently released by the head of the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) in "Guidelines for Investigations and Enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA)," June 9, 2025.

Following a multiyear process that was initiated in 2019 and considered thousands of public comments, on October 16, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ...

The FTC focused its week on consumer protection. The Commission announced a tentative agenda for its upcoming open meeting, sent warning letters to adoption intermediaries for purportedly misleading consumers...

On August 14, 2024, the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida issued a preliminary order holding the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) ban on employee noncompetes (the "Noncompete Rule") to be unlawful.

The Swiss Competition Authority (SCC) fined German car manufacturer BMW CHF156 million (around USD163 million or EUR130 million) on 24 May 2012 for restricting cross-border trade between the EU and Switzerland.

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled in May 2011 that national competition authorities (NCAs) in the 27 EU Member States do not have the power to decide that there has been no breach of EU competition law.

On 28 March 2012 the European Commission (EC) imposed another fine for obstruction of one of its "inspections" (dawn raids). This was the first fine for obstructing the EC’s access to emails during a dawn raid.