Tag: Legislation
Antitrust 2025
Maurice Stucke, Dec 16, 2010
Antitrust policy in the United States has roughly twenty to thirty year cycles: (i) after initial dormancy, 1900-1920, the promise...
The End of Per Se Illegal Tying
Christopher R. Leslie, Dec 16, 2010
When making predictions about the future of antitrust law, one can err in one of two directions: making a...
Canada’s Draft Service Standards for Merger Review: Plus Change, Plus...
Sandy Walker, Aug 31, 2010
Canada's merger review process has always suffered from schizophrenia. Unlike in the EU and United States, the timeline for the...
International Cooperation in a New Era of Canadian Cartel Enforcement
Lindsay Donders, Aug 31, 2010
In today's globalized economy, it is essential that competition enforcement transcend national boundaries to protect the benefits of competitive and...
Canada Enacts Significant Changes to its Foreign Investment Laws
Jonathan Gilhen, Catherine Pawluch, Kevin Wright, Aug 30, 2010
A foreigner considering an investment in Canada might understandably be overwhelmed (and potentially deterred) by the...
Continuity and Change in EU Competition Policy
Assimakis Komninos, Feb 16, 2010
The entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon on December 1, 2009 has brought profound changes to the EU....
The Packers and Stockyards Act: A History of Failure to Date
Peter Carstensen, Apr 29, 2010
Congress adopted the Packers and Stockyards Act ("PSA") in 1921 to achieve two goals that antitrust law and state market...
The FTC Complaint against Intel Corporation: Implications for Consumer Protection
Maureen Ohlhausen, Apr 19, 2010
The Federal Trade Commission's controversial complaint against Intel Corporation contains much that will keep antitrust experts busy litigating, writing law...
Severing Parent Liability For Cartel Infringements By Employees Of Subsidiaries
Laura Atlee, Yves Botteman, Apr 16, 2010
We have previously discussed the Akzo Nobel case, in which the European Court of Justice (“ECJ”) clarified the...
FTC v. Intel: Applying the “Consumer Choice” Framework to “Pure” Section...
Robert Lande, Feb 28, 2010
Much of the Federal Trade Commission’s (“FTC’s”) Complaint against Intel is identical or similar to charges in cases filed by...