Tag: Antitrust
Squire Patton Boggs Grows EU Antitrust Team
Squire Patton Boggs has appointed Gorka Navea as a partner in its Competition-Antitrust Practice Group. Mr Navea has had a distinguished career in competition...
DOJ Says Antitrust Pressure Has Lead To 7 Board Directors Resignations
Seven members of the board of directors at five companies have resigned because of the DOJ's antitrust concerns over the directors holding similar board...
US Law Firms File Antitrust Class Action Against Rental Housing Cartel
Hausfeld, Berger Montague, Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein and Justice Catalyst Law, filed a federal antitrust class action against RealPage and several of RealPage’s...
Italy’s Antitrust Probes Iren, Iberdrola, E.On Over Data
Italy's competition watchdog has opened inquiries into Italian utility Iren, Spain's Iberdrola and German's E.ON over alleged electricity and gas contract issues with their...
US Senate Panel To Hold Antitrust Hearing On Kroger’s Albertsons Buy
A US Senate antitrust panel is expected to announce that it will hold a hearing on Kroger's $25 billion planned acquisition of Albertsons.
The antitrust...
Overview Of Privacy In Cases Relevant To Competition
By Christophe Carugati (Université Paris II)
Privacy in competition cases is becoming common due to the importance of data. The literature thus focuses on the...
Spain Goes After Internet Giant Booking.com
Spain’s competition watchdog has launched an investigation into potential anti-competitive behavior by the Dutch online travel agency giant, Booking.com, following complaints lodged by the...
Senator Mike Lee Turns His Gaze To Grocery Oversight
Senator Mike Lee on the US Senate antitrust panel, promised that there would be significant oversight of a plan by Kroger to buy rival...
FTC Staff Opposes SUNY Hospital Merger Antitrust Exception
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) urged New York’s Department of Health not to shield the State University of New York Upstate Medical University’s proposed...
Fighting New Antitrust Rules Is a Bad Move for Big Tech
By Brooke Fox, Gene Kimmelman and Fiona M. Scott Morton (The Information)
Sen. Amy Klobuchar recently invoked David and Goliath when discussing her fight to pass antitrust legislation to rein in...