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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....
...This is a helpful lens....
...It’s a useful guide to these issues, whether or not you’re in the pensions sector....
...“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....
...Antitrust is a thing again. And not only is industrial policy back — it seems like the US’s public investment might deserve credit for the immaculate cooling we’re seeing on inflation....
...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....
...through the lens of the Instacart IPO)....
...The Department of Justice is suing Google on antitrust grounds, too....
...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....
...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....
...I’m thrilled about the new Google case brought by the DoJ, which I wrote about last week, not only because the public will have a key role in deciding, but because it’s the perfect antitrust case, encompassing...
...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.”...
...But, challenging the private equity model itself “would be revolutionary in the sense that you’re not really turning the clock back to pre-1980 [an era of tighter antitrust regulation], but you’re really...
...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....
...between the two superpowers through the lens of psychology), there are also upsides....
...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...
...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...
...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....
....* “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....
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