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BC Partners details new Intelsat ownership structure

  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 17 2007

In documents that seek FCC consent to the transfer of Intelsat’s ownership to BC Partners (BCP), Intelsat confirmed last Friday that BCP would establish a new entity Serafina Holdings that would acquire Intelsat upon FCC approval of the $16.5 billion transaction announced in June

FCC approves DISH license transfer, but rejects waiver of MSSATC integrated service rule

  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • March 9 2012

Last Friday, DISH Network won FCC approval of its request to acquire 2 GHz mobile satellite service (MSS) S-band licenses and related assets from bankrupt MSS providers TerreStar Networks and DBSD North America

DOJ challenges non-HSR reportable transactions

  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 29 2007

On May 22, 2007, the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice (the “DOJ”) filed a civil antitrust lawsuit challenging a series of 2004 transactions that eliminated competition between the only two daily newspapers in Charleston, West Virginia

Interlocks under Section 8 of the Clayton Act: implications of the FTC’s investigation of Apple and Google

  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • October 14 2009

It was widely reported this week that Apple director Arthur Levinson stepped down from his position on Google’s board of directors following the Federal Trade Commission’s investigation into whether the companies had violated the prohibition on interlocking directorates in Section 8 of the Clayton Act

Court rejects FTC challenge to reverse settlement agreement

  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 1 2010

On February 22, a federal district court rejected claims by the Federal Trade Commission and private plaintiffs that a "reverse settlement" agreement between pharmaceutical companies violated the antitrust laws

New regulations targeting unfair competition and data protection in the Internet sector in China

  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
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  • China, USA
  • -
  • March 1 2012

On December 29, 2011, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology ("MIIT") promulgated the "Certain Provisions on the Regulation of the Market for Internet Information Services" (the "Provisions"), which will come into effect on March 15, 2012

Franken urges probe into Comcast’s compliance with NBCU merger conditions

  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 11 2012

Highlighting difficulties experienced by a particular online video distributor (OVD) in gaining access to Comcast-controlled programming, Senator Al Franken (D-MN) urged the FCC and the Justice Department (DOJ) on Monday to investigate Comcast’s compliance with conditions that were attached by the FCC and the DOJ to the cable firm’s merger with NBC Universal (NBCU

FCC allows cable program access rules to expire

  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 12 2012

Pointing to a national multichannel video program distribution marketplace in which cable operators now play a less dominant role, the FCC decided unanimously last Friday to allow provisions of its program access rules that prohibit exclusive contracts to expire

Justice Department announces conditional approval of Verizon-SpectrumCo deal, as FCC circulates draft order approving transaction

  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 18 2012

Verizon Wireless’s $3.9 billion plan to acquire wireless spectrum licenses held by the SpectrumCo venture and to enter a related cross-marketing arrangement with Cox Communications and the SpectrumCo members was conditionally approved yesterday under a proposed Justice Department (DOJ) consent decree that includes various conditions intended to preserve competition in the markets for video, wireless and broadband Internet services

Eleventh Circuit joins Second and Seventh Circuits in rejecting antitrust claim challenging collective action by holders of existing debt

  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • December 23 2011

In a significant decision that reaffirms the extent to which holders of debt may engage in coordinated behavior with respect to a common issuer, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit recently affirmed a judgment on the pleadings for a group of hedge funds in an antitrust case challenging the funds’ actions under the Sherman Act