Tag: Cartels

By Despina Pachnou & Daniel Westrik1   Interest in Cartel Screens Is Increasing Hard core cartels are a pervasive white-collar crime. Between 1990 and 2016, international cartels...

By John M. Connor & Robert H. Lande, Purdue University & University of Baltimore The purposes of this chapter are to present empirical evidence on...

By Lisa M. Phelan, Joseph Charles Folio III, & Samuel Pollock-Bernard* In 2020, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division indicted 10 corporate executives in...

By Raphael Reims1   The criminal prosecution of hardcore cartels, i.e. the fixing of prices, imposition of output restrictions or the allocation of sales territories or...

Vertical relationships can have coordinated effects with important implications for planned revisions of the U.S. Department of Justice merger guidelines. Despite increased efforts to...

Companies that alerted European authorities to cartels in the last 16 years dodged 10 billion euros ($9.97 billion) in potential fines, EU antitrust regulators said...

By Ann O’Brien & Kayley Sullivan1   I. INTRODUCTION The first half of 2022 has been an exceptionally busy time for criminal antitrust enforcement and policy announcements....

By:  Justin P. Murphy, Paul M. Thompson, Han Cui, Alexandra Lewis & Reese Poncia (Antitrust Alert) Without question, 2022 has been a remarkably busy time for the US Department of...

Dear Readers, Cartels are the quintessential antitrust offence. Though more fashionable (or at least more visible) concerns may dominate the headlines, cartelization remains the cardinal...

In April of this year, the Antitrust Division announced changes to its Corporate Leniency Policy as well as updates to that policy’s FAQs. The...