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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 thing I couldn’t do without is actually very serious: I’m extremely grateful to the scientists who created biologic drugs such as Humira or Adalimumab for people who, like me, suffer from ankylosing...
...“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 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....
...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.”...
...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...
...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....
...“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....
...A makeshift EU-US deal has put that litigation on hold but similar WTO cases brought by other countries remain pending....
...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....
...High-profile antitrust lawyer Christine Varney was one of the people pushing for change....
...Among other seismic cases, he represented the US Department of Justice in its antitrust victory over Bill Gates and Microsoft; represented vice-president Al Gore in the legal case that grew out of the Florida...
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