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The Antitrust Week In Review

				
Posted  12/4/17
								

				 
								 				Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following.

CVS Expands Into Insurance With $69 Billion Aetna Bid.  CVS Health wants to do much more than fill your prescription or jab your arm with an annual flu shot.  The drugstore chain is buying the nation's third-largest health insurer in order to push much deeper into customer care.  The evolution won't...				 
				 					 

						
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Posted  11/27/17
								

				 
								 				Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following.

AT&T Suit May Herald a New Antitrust Era-Or Trumpian Pique.  The Trump administration's decision to oppose the $85 billion AT&T-Time Warner merger may be clouded by suspicions of political influence.  But considered on its merits, it could mark a significant departure in antitrust policy, one that might...				 
				 					 

						
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Posted  11/20/17
								

				 
								 				Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following.

With AT&T and Time Warner, Battle Lines Form for an Epic Antitrust Case.  If the government goes to court to block the merger of AT&T and Time Warner, as seems increasingly likely, it may well be the antitrust case of the decade, even without the claims of presidential meddling that have already engulfed...				 
				 					 

						
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Posted  11/13/17
								

				 
								 				Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following.

AT&T Deal Puts Trump’s Antitrust Cop at Center of a Political Storm.  A year ago, Makan Delrahim predicted that AT&T’s $85.4 billion purchase of Time Warner would be approved by regulators.  “I don’t see this as a major antitrust problem,” Mr. Delrahim, then a law professor, said to a Canadian...				 
				 					 

						
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Posted  11/6/17
								

				 
								 				Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following.

U.S. and AT&T discuss conditions for approval of Time Warner deal.  AT&T Inc. and the U.S. Department of Justice are discussing conditions the No. 2 wireless carrier needs to meet in order to win government antitrust approval for its acquisition of Time Warner Inc., sources familiar with the situation...				 
				 					 

						
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Posted  10/30/17
								

				 
								 				Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following.

Bayer: more antitrust asset sales on the cards after BASF deal.  Bayer said it expected antitrust authorities to make the planned acquisition of Monsanto conditional on more asset sales after agreeing to sell seed and herbicide businesses for 5.9 billion euro ($7 billion) to BASF.  “By no means did the...				 
				 					 

						
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Posted  10/23/17
								

				 
								 				Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following.

U.S. top court to review antitrust claims against American Express.  The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether American Express Co. is violating federal antitrust law by forbidding merchants that accept its credit cards from encouraging customers to use rival cards that charge lower fees.  The...				 
				 					 

						
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Posted  10/16/17
								

				 
								 				Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following.

U.S. top court asks Justice Department for views in Apple antitrust case.  The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Trump administration for its views on whether to hear Apple Inc’s bid to avoid a class-action lawsuit accusing the tech giant of inflating consumer prices by charging illegally high...				 
				 					 

						
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Posted  10/9/17
								

				 
								 				Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following.

Qualcomm offers EU concessions over $38 billion NXP takeover bid.  U.S. smartphone chipmaker Qualcomm has offered concessions in an attempt to allay EU antitrust concerns over its $38-billion bid for NXP Semiconductors, the largest ever in the semiconductor industry.  Qualcomm, which supplies chips to...				 
				 					 

						
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Posted  10/2/17
								

				 
								 				Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following.

U.S. files antitrust lawsuit against Parker-Hannifin takeover.  The U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday filed an antitrust lawsuit challenging Parker-Hannifin Corp.’s purchase of Clarcor Inc., which closed in February.  The lawsuit, brought in U.S. district court in Delaware, was filed out of concern...				 
				 					 

						
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