Friday, 05 August 2011
As widely expected, the US Department of Justice today named Sharis Pozen as acting assistant attorney general in charge of its antitrust division.
Tuesday, 12 July 2011
Christine Varney, assistant attorney general at the US Department of Justice says her departure will not affect the antitrust division’s investigation of the AT&T/T-Mobile merger.
Monday, 27 June 2011
Christine Varney, assistant attorney general in charge of the US Department of Justice’s antitrust division, says the DoJ and the US Federal Trade Commission will sign a memorandum of understanding with all three Chinese competition authorities next month.
Thursday, 26 May 2011
Featured In: May 2011 (Vol. 14 Iss. 5)
April marked two years since Christine Varney took over as head of the US Department of Justice’s antitrust division. Ron Knox asks her about the DoJ’s enforcement record, personnel changes at the division and the use of section 2 as a tool to challenge single-firm conduct
Premium Article - Tuesday, 21 September 2010
Christine Varney, assistant attorney general at the US Department of Justice’s antitrust division, stressed the importance of international convergence in competition enforcement, in a speech opening Georgetown Law’s fourth annual Global Antitrust Symposium today. Emily Gray in Washington, DC
Premium Article - Wednesday, 27 January 2010
Christine Varney, of the US Department of Justice’s antitrust division, has stressed the importance of updating horizontal merger guidelines to keep pace with the advancement of economic thinking.
Premium Article - Thursday, 15 October 2009
The head of the US Department of Justice’s antitrust division yesterday added her voice to a growing call from Democratic leadership on Capitol Hill and the White House to remove a longstanding antitrust exemption for health insurers.
Premium Article - Tuesday, 13 October 2009
Featured In: October 2009 (Vol. 12 Iss. 9)
Over the past decade, officials from the two US antitrust authorities have searched for ways to end inter-agency fighting over the right to investigate potentially anti-competitive deals. So far, the search has yielded few results. Now, the country’s new antitrust regime says it has a plan. Can it work? Ron Knox investigates
Premium Article - Monday, 12 October 2009
Christine Varney, deputy assistant attorney general in charge of the US Department of Justice’s antitrust division, has called for greater convergence with other authorities on single firm conduct and antitrust fines.
Premium Article - Thursday, 08 October 2009
The head of the US Department of Justice’s antitrust division yesterday laid out the case for state and federal enforcers to bring resale price maintenance cases under the rule-of-reason standard mandated by the Supreme Court.
Premium Article - Thursday, 08 October 2009
A Virginia hospital network has agreed to sell off medical clinics it acquired last year after the US Federal Trade Commission said the acquisitions were anti-competitive and would increase customers’ costs.
Premium Article - Tuesday, 22 September 2009
Federal Trade Commission chairman Jon Leibowitz today announced that the US antitrust agencies will jointly revisit the country’s horizontal merger guidelines. Peter Scott in Washington, DC.
Premium Article - Monday, 21 September 2009
Christine Varney, assistant attorney general at the US Department of Justice’s antitrust division, told a committee on Saturday that buyer power and vertical integration in the dairy sector are major issues for concern.
Premium Article - Monday, 14 September 2009
Christine Varney, assistant attorney general at the US Department of Justice’s antitrust division, delivered the keynote speech on Saturday at the International Bar Association’s 13th annual competition conference. Emily Gray in Fiesole.
Premium Article - Wednesday, 03 June 2009
Christine Varney, the assistant attorney general in charge of the antitrust division at the US Department of Justice, spoke with GCR at this year's ICN to discuss section 2 guidance, clearance issues with the Federal Trade Commission and the direction of the ICN.
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