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The EU e-books settlement: a study in elephant avoidance

  • Greenberg Traurig LLP
  • -
  • European Union
  • -
  • March 8 2013

On 13 December 2012, the European Commission (the "Commission") issued its decision to make legally binding a number of commitments offered by Apple

Antitrust Quarterly - Winter 2013

  • Greenberg Traurig LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 28 2013

"Together we discovered that a free market only thrives when there are rules to ensure competition and fair play." President Barack Obama, January

The FTC settlement with Google both sides won

  • Greenberg Traurig LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 28 2013

On January 3, 2013, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC or Commission) announced, in bipartisan votes of 41 and 50, a comprehensive settlement of a

EU merger control: reform with a small "r" (but do not underestimate its value)

  • Greenberg Traurig LLP
  • -
  • European Union
  • -
  • February 28 2013

As many businesses will be acutely aware, the preparation of merger control notifications to the European Commission (the "Commission") under the EU

Recent European Commission enforcement activity in the shipping sector

  • Greenberg Traurig LLP
  • -
  • European Union
  • -
  • February 14 2013

On 31 January 2013, the European Commission (the "Commission") announced that it had closed its antitrust investigation into two shipping

ECJ eliminates noticeability test in regard to restriction of competition by object

  • Greenberg Traurig LLP
  • -
  • European Union
  • -
  • January 29 2013

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) on 13 December 2012 issued a remarkable ruling. By the present ruling the ECJ has now simplified sanctioning

Revised Hart-Scott-Rodino premerger notification thresholds for 2013

  • Greenberg Traurig LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 11 2013

On January 10, 2013, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced revised Hart-Scott-Rodino Act (HSR) reporting thresholds under which transactions will

Price fixing in the booze market the government’s solution to binge drinking

  • Greenberg Traurig LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • December 14 2012

On 28 November 2012 the UK’s Home Office launched a consultation regarding proposals to deliver the Government’s policies aimed at cutting alcohol fuelled crime and anti-social behaviour

Pharmaceutical patent transfers subject to the HSR Act: increased review raises importance of valuation

  • Greenberg Traurig LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 6 2012

Proposed Amendments to the Rules under the Hart Scott Rodino Act ("HSR Act") would require compliance with the Act's reporting and waiting period requirements for certain acquisitions of exclusive pharmaceutical patent licenses that historically have not been reportable because the licensor retained manufacturing rights under the patent

Recent FTC enforcement action reinforces narrow ‘passive investor' exemption to HSR reporting requirements

  • Greenberg Traurig LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 6 2012

On September 25, 2012, Biglari Holdings, Inc. agreed to pay a civil fine of $850,000 to resolve Federal Trade Commission (FTC) contentions that it improperly relied upon the "passive investor" exemption to the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 ("HSR Act") in connection with its investment in Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Inc. during the summer of 2011