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Merger

Biden’s Antitrust Squeeze May Grease the Wheels for TV Deals

By Cynthia Littleton, Variety The Biden administration made a statement earlier this month when the Justice Department filed an antitrust lawsuit to block the $2.1...
FTC

Boies Schiller Antitrust Pro Heads To FTC

A longtime antitrust lawyer at Boies Schiller Flexner in Washington, DC, has left the firm to join the Federal Trade Commission, reported Reuters.  Abby Dennis, a...
Sun Pharma Must Face Ranbaxy Antitrust Class Actions

Sun Pharma Must Face Ranbaxy Antitrust Class Actions

Sun Pharmaceutical has lost a bid to avoid facing a trial over allegations that an Indian drugmaker it acquired engaged in an anticompetitive scheme to...
Apple

Italian Antitrust Watchdog Fines Apple & Amazon

Italy's antitrust authority has fined US tech giants Amazon and Apple a total of more than 200 million euros ($225 million) for alleged anti-competitive...
US Law

US Chamber Of Commerce Says FTC Is Overstepping Authority

The US Chamber of Commerce is challenging Federal Trade Commission Chairwoman Lina Khan, contending in a series of letters that she is overstepping the...
Business

Making Sense of Monopolization: Antitrust and the Digital Economy

By Daniel Francis (Harvard) For more than a century, courts and scholars have searched without success for a general definition of monopolization. Some proposals rely...
Pricing

Monopolizing and the Sherman Act

By Herbert Hovenkamp (University of Pennsylvania) In one sentence § 2 of the Sherman Act condemns firms who “monopolize,” “attempt to monopolize” or “combine or...
Jonathan Kanter DOJ

US Senate Approves Big Tech Critic To Head DOJ Antitrust Division

The US Senate voted on Tuesday to confirm Google critic Jonathan Kanter, who was backed by progressives, to head the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division, reported...
Lina Khan

Lina Khan Tells Staffers She Aims To Build Bridges Going Forward

The Chair of the FTC Lina Kahn said she aims to challenge more corporate mergers and monopolistic practices, as well as adopt regulations to...
Labor Market

The Labor Market Doesn’t Need Antitrust Protection

By Allison Schrager, Bloomberg A national labor shortage is an odd time to argue that some workers don’t have enough job options. But that’s what the...
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