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Joint bidding by private equity funds found permissible under antitrust laws
- Squire Sanders
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- USA
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- March 2 2008
In late February 2008 in litigation involving the acquisition of a public company that had put itself up for sale, a federal district court held that that no antitrust claim was stated where, out of all potential buyers solicited by the company, two private equity buyers who were the only bidders to make an actual offer to buy the company entered into a joint bid agreement to purchase the target
Joint bidding by private equity funds found permissible under antitrust laws
- Squire Sanders
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- USA
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- March 3 2008
In late February 2008 in litigation involving the acquisition of a public company that had put itself up for sale, a federal district court held that that no antitrust claim was stated where, out of all potential buyers solicited by the company, two private equity buyers who were the only bidders to make an actual offer to buy the company entered into a joint bid agreement to purchase the target
DOJ reports increases in antitrust criminal fines and merger challenges
- Squire Sanders
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- USA
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- January 22 2007
The DOJ recently announced that during the 2006 fiscal year (ended September 30) it imposed antitrust criminal fines totaling over US$473 million
Takeover Panel: Takeover Code: amendments to various practice statements effective 19 September 2011
- Squire Sanders Hammonds
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- United Kingdom
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- October 4 2011
As reported in the last edition of this publication6 , a number of changes to the Takeover Code (‘the Code’) came into effect on 19 September 2011
