Tag: DOJ
Delrahim: Blocking All Mergers During Pandemic Is Misguided
Makan Delrahim, the top antitrust official at the Justice Department, told CNBC on Wednesday,he believes a pandemic moratorium on big corporate mergers would be...
Senators Ask For Antitrust Vigilance During COVID-19
A group of senators has called on the heads of the US Department of Justice's Antitrust Division and the Federal Trade Commission to remain...
Iowa, Nebraska AGs Urge DOJ To inspect Meat Price-fixing
Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller, Nebraska Attorney General Douglas Peterson and a bipartisan group of attorneys general from 9 other states on Tuesday urged...
Merricks v. Mastercard: “Passing on” the U.S. Experience
By Makan Delrahim (Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice)1
I. Introduction
The mission of the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of...
DOJ Allows Mega Dairy Deal But With Divestments
Justice Department antitrust authorities cleared the way for Dairy Farmers of America (DFA) to buy the bulk of Dean Foods’s milk plants out of...
Senators Urge DOJ To Look At “Problematic” Textbook Merger
Six Democratic senators have urged the US Justice Department to take a hard look at what they called a “problematic” merger of the No....
DOJ Set To Approve Mega Dairy Deal
The Justice Department antitrust officials are nearing a settlement with a major U.S. dairy-farming cooperative that would allow it to buy dozens of plants...
Behavioral Remedies in U.S. Merger Settlements: Past, Present and Future
While in the past, the FTC and DOJ have been receptive to considering behavioral remedies to resolve discrete competition concerns arising from the vertical...
Dems asks DOJ To Scrutinize Intuit’s $7.1B Credit Karma Buy
Democratic lawmaker David Cicilline is asking the US Department of Justice (DOJ) to take a closer look at TurboTax maker Intuit's planned US$7.1 billion...
Sabre Wins Court Fight With DOJ Over Farelogix Buy
A US judge has ruled that travel technology firm Sabre may purchase Farelogix after the Justice Department sued to stop the planned $360 million...