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USA - July 31 2012
On 27 June 2012, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit answered several important questions about the Foreign Trade Antitrust Improvements Act of 1982 (FTAIA).
USA - July 9 2012
On 27 June 2012 the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit answered several important questions about the Foreign Trade Antitrust Improvements Act of 1982 (FTAIA).
USA - May 3 2012
On 16 February 2012, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) took a decidedly different approach to its regulatory approval for mergers and acquisitions of electric utilities by declining to adopt the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) and the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) (collectively “Antitrust Agencies”) 2010 Horizontal Merger Guidelines that raise the thresholds that trigger market-power concerns.
USA - February 17 2012
Yesterday, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) took a decidedly different approach to its regulatory approval for mergers and acquisitions of electric utilities by declining to adopt the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) and the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) (collectively “Antitrust Agencies”) 2010 Horizontal Merger Guidelines that raise the thresholds that trigger market-power concerns.
USA - December 9 2011
On 30 September 2011, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced a settlement with Morgan Stanley, describing it as a "signal to the financial services community that use of derivatives for anticompetitive ends will not be tolerated."
