Tag: Biden Administration
Updating the Merger Guidelines: A Dynamic Reboot
In this article we offer a number of recommendations for updating the merger guidelines. Our comments address six distinct areas: (1) the guidelines’ structure, (2)...
Biden’s Antitrust: The Transformation is Here But Will it Last?
Like all new administrations, the Biden Administration entered office promising change in antitrust policy. Unlike previous administrations, however, the change this Administration promised was...
Beginnings of an Antitrust Revolution?
President Biden made antitrust law — and reforming it — an important part of his administration’s agenda. Nearly nine months after he issued a...
Seven Myths of Market Definition
Roughly a year into control of the federal antitrust agencies, President Biden’s antitrust team is turning its attention to policies and enforcement practices. They...
US Plans Tougher Regulation To Rein In Meat Prices
The Biden administration plans to take a tougher stance toward meatpacking companies it says are causing sticker shock at grocery stores.
Four companies control much...
US Senator Rubio Demands Answers On Huawei’s Auto Chip Approval
US Senator Marco Rubio on Thursday released a statement "demanding answers" from the Biden Administration about a Reuters report the US has approved license...
Biden’s Executive Order and the Shifting US Antitrust Landscape
By: Douglas Tween, William Huynh, Ben Bauer & Chloe Shostak (Linklaters)
On July 9, 2021 the White House released President Biden’s “Executive Order on Promoting Competition...
Biden Nominates Antitrust Expert Lina Khan For FTC Commissioner
US President Joe Biden intends to nominate Lina Khan, a former counsel to the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee's antitrust subcommittee, to be a...
7 People Who’ll Likely Drive The Biden Administration’s Tech Policy
By Margaret Harding McGill, Ashley Gold
While the Biden administration has been slow to appoint the key decision makers at agencies overseeing technology issues, a handful...
Antitrust in a Digital World: Does It Work? – Episode 2
Below, we have provided the full transcript of the second episode of our series Antitrust in a Digital World: Does It Work?. Read below...