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Competitors Engaged In Cooperative Processes Find They Face Competing Approaches By Southern District Of New York Judges Weighing Antitrust Liability

Posted  03/30/16
By Robert M. Cross The scope of antitrust liability for competitors engaged in cooperative processes—such as setting benchmark interest rates—became murkier this week with a decision by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York holding that manipulation of such a cooperative process could give rise to a viable price-fixing claim. On Monday, Judge Jesse M. Furman held in

The Antitrust Week In Review

Posted  03/28/16
Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following. .  Oilfield services provider Halliburton Co.'s plan to acquire smaller rival Baker Hughes is facing additional delay after European Union antitrust regulators halted their investigation into the $35 billion deal for the second time. ...

The Antitrust Week In Review

Posted  03/21/16
Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following. .  European antitrust regulators are poised to investigate allegations that two out of three online content providers may be blocking consumers in another EU country from buying their products or services.  The findings by the European...

The Antitrust Week In Review

Posted  03/14/16
Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following. .  European Union antitrust regulators are considering expanding the criteria that requires companies to seek merger approval in an effort to ensure deals involving start-ups producing key data or products do not slip through the net.  Under...

The Antitrust Week in Review

Posted  03/7/16
Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following. .  Margrethe Vestager, the European Union’s competition commissioner, is expected to move ahead in the coming months in the antitrust case she filed against Google, in which she has accused the company of favoring some of its own services...

European Union Begins Looking at Comprehensive Regulation of Virtual Currencies

Posted  03/2/16
A View from Constantine Cannon’s London Office By Yulia Tosheva, Richard Pike and James Ashe-Taylor The European Parliament’s Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (“ECON”) took a tentative first step toward the regulation of virtual currencies regulation of virtual currencies last week with the issuance of a on virtual currencies. The regulation of virtual currencies is already...

The Antitrust Week In Review

Posted  02/29/16
Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following. Dow Chemical has agreed to pay $835 million to settle a decade-long lawsuit on price fixing, saying that the death of Justice Antonin Scalia lessened its chances of overturning the verdict at the Supreme Court.  Dow, which is in the...

EU Telegraphs It Is Probing Whether Western Union Colluded To Drive Rivals Out Of Money-Transfer Market

Posted  02/26/16
A View from Constantine Cannon’s London Office By Richard Pike and Yulia Tosheva The European Commission has launched a preliminary antitrust investigation into possible collusion by Western Union in the money remittance market. According to sources, the European Commission is investigating whether exclusivity contracts signed between money-transfer provider Western Union and retail outlets...

First Circuit Boosts Antitrust Challenges To Pay-For-Delay Settlements By Finding Non-Cash Deals Subject To Actavis Scrutiny

Posted  02/25/16
Antitrust challenges to so-called “pay-for-delay” settlements—in which brand-name drug makers temporarily keep generics out of the market by making payments to would-be competitors—got a booster shot this week with a in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. The First Circuit held on Monday that even when pay-for-delay settlements do not involve any cash payments, plaintiffs can still...

The Antitrust Week In Review

Posted  02/22/16
Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following. Google Chief Executive Sundar Pichai will meet Europe's antitrust chief Thursday for the first time since his appointment last August, according to sources.  European Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager, who has accused the world's...
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