Tag: Antitrust
US Administration Considers Antitrust Action Against OPEC
The White House said it will work with Congress to potentially enable antitrust action against Opec after the producers' alliance slashed its crude production...
American Airlines CEO Testifies At Antitrust Trial
American Airlines CEO Robert Isom made his first appearance at the federal courthouse in Boston on Monday, testifying that American’s Northeast Alliance with JetBlue...
Musk Says He Will Buy Twitter For Original $44B Price
Elon Musk has offered to proceed with the Twitter deal at a price of $54.20 per share, reported The New York Times. This comes just...
EU Regulator Withdraws Antitrust COVID Temporary Framework
The European Commission has today adopted a revised Informal Guidance Notice that allows businesses to seek informal guidance on the application of EU competition rules to...
India OKs Zee, Sony Tie Up, Creating $10B TV Behemoth
India's competition regulator greenlit a merger between the Indian unit of Japan's Sony and Zee Entertainment Enterprises that will create a $10-billion TV behemoth,...
Mayer Brown & Squire Patton Boggs Grow EU Antitrust Teams
This week Squire Patton Boggs and Mayer Brown announced that they have added technology-focused partners to their European antitrust practice, Reuters reported.
The former deputy...
US Congress Allows Ivy League Antitrust Exemption To Expire
Congress has allowed another layer of legal antitrust protection related to college athletics to expire this Friday.
The law, which is officially removed at the...
EU Antitrust Watchdogs Call Off 6-Year Probe Into Czech Rail
EU antitrust regulators have dropped a six-year old investigation into Czech railway company Ceske drahy (CD) after failing to find evidence of wrongdoing, the...
Reevaluating Out-of-Market Efficiencies in Antitrust
By John M. Yun (George Mason University)
Antitrust analyses relegate efficiencies to a second-class status. Not only are they often an after-thought when assessing conduct...
Damn the Economics, Full Speed Ahead!
By: Alden Abbott (Truth On The Market)
A White House administration typically announces major new antitrust initiatives in the fall and spring, and this year...