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DOJ’s Bazaarvoice complaint: a risk to all transactions despite HSR reporting thresholds

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 14 2013

A recent complaint filed by the Department of Justice ("DOJ") challenging the acquisition of PowerReviews, Inc. by Bazaarvoice, Inc. should serve as

Dismissal of ARS antitrust suit affirmed

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 11 2013

On March 5th, the Second Circuit held that the district court properly dismissed antitrust lawsuits brought by plaintiffs representing the purchasers

FTC announces 2013 revised jurisdictional thresholds for Hart-Scott-Rodino Act filings

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 22 2013

The Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") recently announced the annual changes to the jurisdictional thresholds for Section 7A of the Clayton Act. These

Confidentiality and the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 10 2013

Pursuant to the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act ("HSR"), transactions involving certain dollar amounts and or party size are prohibited from being consummated

Backwardation, contango and moving markets

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 7 2013

On December 21st, the U.S. District Court denied a motion to dismiss plaintiffs' Sherman Act and Commodities Exchange Act claims stemming from

FERC’s proposed penalties for market manipulation: do they violate the Eighth Amendment prohibition on excessive fines?

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 31 2012

In the past year, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ("FERC") issued over five orders directing various companies and individuals to show cause why

Ritz Camera & Image, LLC v. Sandisk Corp., No. 2012-1183 (Fed. Cir. Nov. 20, 2012)

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 8 2012

A direct purchaser has standing to assert a Walker Process antitrust claim even if it does not have standing to challenge the validity of the patent

Retail electricity consumer lacks standing to sue over the "KeySpan swap" and the "Astoria Hedge"

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 24 2012

On September 20th, the Second Circuit affirmed the dismissal of antitrust claims filed by a retail consumer of electricity in New York City against KeySpan, an electricity producer that allegedly colluded with rivals to increase installed capacity prices, and Morgan Stanley Capital, which allegedly facilitated KeySpan's anticompetitive conduct

Plaintiffs lack antitrust standing to allege ATM fee price fixing

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 16 2012

On July 12th, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed the entry of summary judgment dismissing antitrust claims filed against various banks

Designations

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 14 2012

On May 8th, the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control announced the designation of four key Sinaloa Cartel operatives, including two sons of Sinaloa drug lord Joaquin "Chapo" Guzman Loera