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...US antitrust regulators also ordered Grail’s divestiture in April, a decision Illumina is appealing against....
...industry’s willingness to resort to litigation....
...“She uses litigation, if necessary, as a platform to try and return, in her view, antitrust law to its original purpose of preventing industry consolidation or post-merger abuse,” he says....
...Cleary Gottlieb has hired Shearman & Sterling’s Ryan Shores, a former associate deputy attorney-general at the US Department of Justice, as an antitrust and litigation partner....
...Jamie SmythMost people think that the legal cases could well continue because they’re going to set a really important precedent in antitrust law....
...DS: I remember a lot of people saying that there weren’t antitrust issues with respect to the big tech companies because the price was zero, the products are free, and so there are no antitrust issues to...
...“They’re plaintiff’s lawyers interested in making money as plaintiff’s lawyers,” says Estrich....
...Spain is second only to Venezuela in the number of defaults on arbitration awards. Foreign investors now need to re-think whether Spain, and the European Union more broadly, are safe places to invest....
...Does it only impact people in Germany? Javier EspinozaYes and no....
...In a letter to the DoJ, progressive antitrust organisations said they were “alarmed” by this development and argued Kanter should cover Google as he had no conflicts of interest....
...open the containers and discovered they contained no nickel whatsoever....
...Meanwhile, UK bankers’ counterparts in the Gulf had no shortage of cash to throw around....
...There’s a new regime for M&A antitrust US Department of Justice antitrust chief Jonathan Kanter has made it no secret in recent months that private equity is on his radar as the industry’s top players morph...
...What do you make of their argument over the App Store and antitrust?...
...“Either they’re right and I’m fucking dead, or I’m right and I’m going to the fucking moon,” he said....
...Kanter is worried about the size and influence of the industry, telling the FT “we’re seeing a once-in-many generation(s) shift in how markets function” and a “once-in-century inflection point in terms of...
...The ruling activated a dormant article in the European treaty that could set a significant precedent for EU regulators’ ability to go after more so-called killer acquisitions — no matter where they’re located...
...“The whole concept was we’re not going to foreclose,” says one borrower involved in numerous negotiations. “They’re in the business of ideally doing multiple deals with your portfolio companies....
...They’re then alleged to have forced the WTI price towards its historic low by acting in “virtual lockstep” to flood the market....
...There’s no better place to observe how a new European and international order is being changed in a crisis....
...Whereas on the far right you're seeing people who want to provide safety mechanisms for the NCAA to try to give them some form of an antitrust exemption and shield them from litigation that may come out....
...“When you’re in a fight, you fight, but when it looks like the whole world is going against you, you embrace the change,” he said....
...The PCGG has recovered $3.3bn in what it says is ill-gotten wealth. More than $2.4bn more — held in condominiums, paintings and landholdings — is under litigation....
...In a 9-0 unanimous ruling, the justices sided with student athletes, who argued that the restrictions on education benefits violated antitrust law....
...We’d forgive the dispute settlement panel if it were to claim it had printed out the judgments but dropped them into Lake Geneva, and then said: “Oh, no, look, they’re too soggy to read, those are the only...
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