To mark Global Competition Review's 10th birthday, James Clasper invited some of Washington’s top antitrust lawyers to reflect on a decade of practising law in the United States.

The American Antitrust Institute is an independent advocacy group trying to "increase the role of competition, assure that competition works in the interests of consumers, and challenge abuses of concentrated economic power in the American and world economy". James Clasper met the AAI’s president, Bert Foer, and discussed its role as a counterbalance to conservative antitrust philosophy.

As the world moves from an industrial to an information-based economy, intellectual property is fast becoming key to global economic growth. Yet the intersection of antitrust and IP is fraught with difficulty. GCR invited a stellar cast of lawyers to discuss the complexities

Maureen Ohlhausen is director of policy planning at the US Federal Trade Commission. She tackles problems that ordinary law enforcement cannot fix. A recent campaign aimed at invigorating competition in real-estate selling was so successful that the industry named her one of its 100 most influential figures. Julius Cavendish spoke to her recently.

Donald Kempf argues that it is time to abolish all of America’s antitrust exemptions and immunities – starting with those whose adverse competitive impact is greatest.

Jill Henderson

As Europe debates the introduction of a direct settlements system for cartel participants, Kent Gardiner, Bridget Calhoun, Matthew Scarlato and Volker Soyez of Crowell & Moring LLP take a comparative look at the US plea-bargaining process.

The US Federal Trade Commission is filing a lawsuit to block Whole Foods' merger with health food chain Wild Oats.

The US Department of Justice has cleared a merger between the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Chicago Board of Trade, after an in-depth investigation.

On 21 May, the US Supreme Court announced the proper standard for pleading an antitrust conspiracy in Bell Atlantic Corp v Twombly

On 27 February, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals held that plaintiffs could not establish that a market-share discount programme challenged under the Robinson-Patman Act constituted price discrimination where the buyers’ own economic exigencies prevented them from benefiting from the highest discounts

The Supreme Court has unanimously held that the legal standard for predatory-pricing claims, established in the 1993 case Brooke Group v Brown & Williamson Tobacco, should also apply in situations where a plaintiff alleges predatory bidding

James Clasper examines the informal antitrust probe launched into private-equity deals in the United States and asks whether the investigation will ever migrate to Europe

David Giardina, partner at Sidley Austin LLP in Chicago, discusses developments in the law of bundled pricing

Ilene Knable Gotts, partner at Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz in New York, and Leon Greenfield, partner at WilmerHale in Washington DC, explain what every lawyer needs to know about non-competition barriers to foreign acquisitions of US targets