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...US antitrust regulators also ordered Grail’s divestiture in April, a decision Illumina is appealing against....
...There is an enormous fight going on in the litigation over market definition. Who belongs in the social media product market? For example, under the FTC’s allegations, Twitter/X is not in the market....
...of litigation....
...The clip-on filters cost £18.99....
...“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....
...And he’s now looking at potentially bringing litigation against a major betting operator in the US. So perhaps that’s a whole different avenue....
...And in addition to that, they also said that the litigation process in the UK could be frozen while all of this was addressed....
...Jamie SmythMost people think that the legal cases could well continue because they’re going to set a really important precedent in antitrust law....
...There’s been a lot of writing about potentially the fact that we’re in a golden age of medical innovation....
...PM: Your papers led to antitrust action on the part of state attorneys-general. And, with Biden, we have a whole new antitrust environment in the US....
...They’re like, ‘Oh you’re so light and so cute in your school uniform.’ You take the money and go to McDonald’s and buy yourself a king-sized meal.”...
...Private litigation is proving to be another multidimensional headache....
...Is that more unique in the antitrust sector or what have you seen in your reporting?...
...“And we’re seeing a once-in-many-generation[s] shift in how markets function, and the need to update and adapt our antitrust enforcement to address new market realities.”...
...Some companies shy away from NYSE or Nasdaq due to litigation risk — in 2022 alone, 208 securities class action suits were filed in the US, including 34 against non-US issuers — and the penchant of US authorities...
...Former CBI chair Dame Carolyn Fairbairn is joining Tesco’s board in September. Antitrust lawyer Karen Kazmerzak has joined Simpson Thacher from Sidley Austin as a partner in Washington DC....
...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...
...Boies, now 81, helped strike down the legal prohibition on gay marriage in California, as well as representing the justice department in its antitrust victory over Bill Gates and Microsoft in 2001....
...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...
...We will improve our artificial intelligence systems in all of these languages around the world. And we’re gonna have amazing content filters. That means that this isn’t a problem”....
....* “People don’t feel like they’ve got good information, there’s a lack of transparency, and so they’re not really sure whether to be involved.”...
...“There is a bit of remorse about not having been tougher on Big Tech in the past,” said a Brussels-based antitrust lawyer....
...“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....
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