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The Antitrust Week In Review

Posted  03/6/17
Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following. Twenty U.S. States Join Generic Drug Price-Fixing Lawsuit.  California, Illinois and 18 more states have joined a lawsuit filed last year alleging that six companies, including Mylan NV and Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd., conspired to push up prices of two generic drugs, the Connecticut attorney...

The Antitrust Week In Review

Posted  02/27/17
Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following. Should SCOTUS Review Nixed $7.2 Billion Credit-Card Antitrust Settlement?  Depending on which side you believe, when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit rejected the biggest antitrust class action settlement in history last June, the appeals court either: drastically misread U.S. Supreme...

The Antitrust Week In Review

Posted  02/20/17
Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following. Anthem Sues Cigna to Block Termination of Merger.  Anthem on Wednesday won a temporary restraining order that blocks smaller rival Cigna from officially terminating their proposed $54 billion merger, a transaction already rejected by U.S. antitrust regulators.  The deal would have created the largest...

The Antitrust Week In Review

Posted  02/13/17
Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following. U.S. Court Blocks Anthem-Cigna Merger, Dealing Blow to Consolidation.  A federal judge on Wednesday ruled against U.S. health insurer Anthem’s proposed $54 billion merger with smaller rival Cigna, derailing an unprecedented effort to consolidate the country's health insurance industry.  The U.S....

The Antitrust Week In Review

Posted  01/30/17
Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following. Amazon Offers to Scrap E-book Clauses to Settle EU Antitrust Probe.  Amazon has offered to alter its e-book contracts with publishers in a bid to end an EU antitrust probe and stave off a possible fine, the European Commission said on Tuesday.  Amazon, the biggest e-book distributor in Europe, proposed...

The Antitrust Week In Review

Posted  01/23/17
Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following. Apple Depicts Qualcomm as a Shady Monopolist in $1B Lawsuit.  Apple is suing mobile chip maker Qualcomm for $1 billion in a patent fight pitting the iPhone maker against one of its major suppliers.  The 100-page complaint filed Friday in a San Diego federal court depicts Qualcomm as a greedy monopolist...

The Antitrust Week In Review

Posted  01/17/17
Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following. Obama’s Work to Limit Mergers May Stop With Trump Administration.  A nascent effort by the Obama administration to limit corporate consolidation, begun after officials concluded that a lack of competition was hurting the American economy, appears to be coming to an abrupt end as the Trump administration...

The Antitrust Week In Review

Posted  01/3/17
Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following. Russia's Gazprom Files Proposals to EU Aimed at Ending Antitrust Case.  Russia's Gazprom said it had filed proposals with the European Commission aimed at resolving a five-year EU case over the Russian gas giant's alleged monopoly practices.  The Russian state gas exporter, which supplies a third of the...

The Antitrust Week In Review

Posted  12/27/16
Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following. AMC wins U.S. antitrust approval to buy Carmike Cinemas with conditions. AMC Entertainment Holdings won U.S. antitrust approval with conditions to buy smaller competitor Carmike Cinemas Inc in a $1.2 billion deal that would create the biggest U.S. movie theater chain.  The U.S. Justice Department said it...

The Antitrust Week In Review

Posted  12/12/16
Here are some of the developments in antitrust news this past week that we found interesting and are following. E.U. Fines Three Banks About $520 Million for Interest Rate Collusion.  European antitrust regulators on Wednesday fined Crédit Agricole, HSBC and JPMorgan Chase a total of just over 485 million euros for colluding to fix benchmark interest rates tied to the euro.  The penalties, equivalent to about...
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