Tag: FTC
South Korea: KFTC probes convenience store franchisers
South Korea’s Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) has initiated an on-site investigation on the country’s third and fourth largest convenience store franchisers 7-Eleven under Lotte...
US: Seeks to challenge Sinclair/Tribune deal
US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai said Monday, July 16, that he has "serious concerns" about the proposed merger between the Sinclair...
US: FTC clears Takeda’s proposed US$62b Shire takeover
Takeda Pharmaceutical has received US regulatory approval for its US$62 billion takeover of Irish drugmaker Shire, clearing a “significant” hurdle to completing Japan’s largest-ever...
US: Open Markets Institute’s antitrust pro joins FTC
Khan, the director of legal policy at Washington think tank Open Markets Institute, will work as a legal fellow for the next few months...
US: House Republican calls for renewed antitrust probe of Google
Rep. Todd Rokita, a conservative Republican from Indiana, has called for the federal government to reopen an antitrust investigation Google's search engine reported The...
EU: Commission conditionally clears Tronox to buy Cristal
On Wednesday The European Commission cleared US chemical group Tronox to buy Saudi Arabia’s Cristal, on the condition that it sells its global business...
US: Expanded Federal probe hurts Facebook
Following news that the US government probe into the Facebook data breach connected with Cambridge Analytica has widened, shares of the company dropped 2%...
US: Senators ask FTC to review Biosimilar patent settlements
United States Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) recently sent a letter to Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairman Joseph Simons urging the...
US: AbbVie owes US$488m in antitrust case
A US judge on Friday, June 29, found that Abbvie Inc used sham litigation to illegally prevent generic versions of testosterone gel AndroGel from...
US: FTC and DOJ Approve procedural changes to HSR form
The Federal Trade Commission, with the concurrence of the Antitrust Division of the US Department of Justice, has approved amendments to the Hart-Scott-Rodino Premerger...
