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Actavis and Warner Chilcott announce pharma tie-up
Tuesday, 21 May 2013
Actavis has announced plans to acquire specialty pharmaceutical company Warner Chilcott for US$8.5 billion.
Baker Botts adds counsel in DC
Tuesday, 21 May 2013
Competition law specialist Michael Bodosky has joined the antitrust group at Baker Botts in the firm’s Washington, DC office.
New ruling puts fees in dairy litigation at more than US$100 million
Monday, 20 May 2013
Attorneys for a group of dairy farmers in the southeastern US have been awarded more than US$100 million in fees for their work in reaching settlements with a group of marketing and production companies accused of collusion.
Judge cites FTAIA split in ending USB lawsuit
Monday, 20 May 2013
A federal judge has dismissed an antitrust lawsuit between three Chinese USB manufacturers, underscoring a split in case law as to whether US courts have the jurisdictional right to decide the legality of alleged anti-competitive conduct overseas.
Judge refuses Dow’s US$1.2 billion fine appeal
Thursday, 16 May 2013
Dow Chemical has been ordered to pay US$1.2 billion for its involvement in a urethane cartel, after a judge refused its request to reverse a jury’s guilty verdict.
Apple & DoJ fire final shots before trial
Thursday, 16 May 2013
Apple says the US government’s allegations that it conspired with publishers to fix the price of e-books contain more “smoke and mirrors than the smoking gun the law requires,” according to the company's final court statement before it goes to trial next month.
DoJ asks for decade-plus prison terms for UBS execs in muni bonds case
Monday, 13 May 2013
Prosecutors from the US Department of Justice’s antitrust division have asked for at least one prison sentence approaching 20 years for former executives of UBS found guilty of conspiring to rig bids and commit fraud in the municipal bond market.
US judge throws out "daisy chain" FTC cartel complaint
Friday, 10 May 2013
A US judge has partly dismissed a Federal Trade Commission complaint that three companies colluded to fix prices, but has upheld allegations of exclusionary conduct.
Feinstein looks ahead on pay-for-delay challenges
Wednesday, 8 May 2013
The director of the US Federal Trade Commission’s bureau of competition says that unless the Supreme Court finds that they are explicitly lawful, the FTC will continue to pursue pharmaceutical patent settlement cases where it feels the antitrust laws have been violated.
Constellation was key to beer deal, Hesse says
Wednesday, 8 May 2013
The complex structural fix that allowed AB-InBev to close its US$20 billion purchase of Grupo Modelo was fuelled by questions about whether the purchaser of the divested assets could survive in the beer market, a senior US Department of Justice official said yesterday.
An interview with Joseph Wayland
Tuesday, 7 May 2013
Country Survey • Issue: May 2013
Joseph Wayland is credited by many as reversing the US Department of Justice’s antitrust division’s fortunes in civil litigation. Hired to head the civil enforcement division in 2010 and appointed as acting assistant attorney general in 2012, Wayland led the division’s first successful litigated merger challenge in nearly a decade in H&R Block, and its subsequent challenge of AT&T/T-Mobile, which ended with the parties abandoning the deal. Katy Oglethorpe talks to him about his courtroom successes, the future of merger enforcement at the department, and life since returning to his former firm, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett last year
Washington, DC's antitrust bar
Tuesday, 7 May 2013
Country Survey • Issue: May 2013
The US capital's antitrust bar is on the verge of a generational shift – yet it remains as deep and talented as ever. Ron Knox and Katy Oglethorpe examine the top teams working in the hub of antitrust law.
Discounts end porn site dispute
Friday, 3 May 2013
Two of the country’s top online pornography companies have agreed to lower their swords in their two-year antitrust fight after the owner of the .xxx porn-only web domain pledged to offer lower prices for registering risqué websites.
Mergers remain steady at the US agencies
Friday, 3 May 2013
The number of mergers requiring a second request and in-depth investigation from the US antitrust agencies dropped by more than 10 per cent between 2011 and 2012 on a nearly identical number of deals, according to merger statistics released this week.
Wilson Sonsini hires DoJ special counsel
Thursday, 2 May 2013
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati has hired US Department of Justice special counsel Stuart Chemtob as senior counsel in its Washington, DC antitrust practice.
GCR May 2013
Surveys: Washington, Taiwan • EU Cartel Settlements Round Table, Mexican Amparos • Interviews with Shiow-Ming Wu, Chris Fonteijn, Joe Wayland.
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