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The Antitrust Week In Review

Posted  12/27/16
Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following. . AMC Entertainment Holdings won U.S. antitrust approval with conditions to buy smaller competitor Carmike Cinemas Inc in a $1.2 billion deal that would create the biggest U.S. movie theater chain.  The U.S. Justice Department said it...

The Antitrust Week In Review

Posted  12/19/16
Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following. .  The U.S. Department of Justice accused two former generic pharmaceutical executives on Wednesday of colluding with other generic manufacturers to fix prices, the first criminal charges stemming from a two-year investigation.  The executives,...

The Antitrust Week In Review

Posted  12/12/16
Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following. .  European antitrust regulators on Wednesday fined Crédit Agricole, HSBC and JPMorgan Chase a total of just over 485 million euros for colluding to fix benchmark interest rates tied to the euro.  The penalties, equivalent to about...

The Antitrust Week In Review

Posted  12/5/16
Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following. .  A Republican antitrust veteran has been named to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's transition team for the Justice Department, a choice that lawyers say signals a more hands-off approach to antitrust enforcement compared to Democratic President...

The Antitrust Week In Review

Posted  11/28/16
Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following. .  President-elect Donald Trump's choice of experts to focus on new policies at the Federal Communications Commission signals a regime that will have a "lighter" touch on regulation and be more likely to favor large mergers in telecoms industries,...

The Antitrust Week In Review

Posted  11/21/16
Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following. .  The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday gave the green light to class action lawsuits by consumers accusing Visa Inc, Mastercard Inc. and several U.S. banks of conspiring to inflate the prices of ATM access fees in violation of antitrust law.  The...

New York Attorney General Scores For NFL Fans With NFL Agreement To Drop Mandatory Price Floor On Ticket Resales

Posted  11/17/16
By James J. Kovacs New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman has a multi-state settlement with the National Football League (“NFL”) eliminating the NFL’s league-wide usage of a “mandatory price floor” in the secondary ticket market. NFL rules had required all 32 teams to impose a mandatory price floor on secondary market ticket sales, not only on the NFL-owned Ticket Exchange website,...

The Antitrust Week In Review

Posted  11/14/16
Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following. .  With a man who is co-author of “The Art of the Deal” as president-elect, deal making can be expected to increase.  This rise will be determined by whether a Trump administration can govern with stability.  And then there is the biggest factor these...

The Antitrust Week In Review

Posted  11/7/16
Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following. .  If you want to know what economic policy would look like in a Hillary Clinton administration, you can read her speeches or policy positions or look at the backgrounds of the advisers she surrounds herself with. But it’s...

The Antitrust Week In Review

Posted  10/31/16
Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following. .  Over three decades ago, such was AT&T’s monopoly over the nation’s communications networks that the government forcefully shattered its empire.  Now, as one of its successors again seeks a formidable business empire by buying Time Warner, lawmakers,...
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