Author: Steven J. Cernak
How do you tie together evolution, the wave, and market prices? As Neil Chilson explains in his brilliant little book, Getting Out of Control, all are examples of emergent order. While Chilson is a former
Continue Reading A Book Right for Our Time: Review of Getting Out of Control by Neil Chilson
Author: Steven J. Cernak
Remember when UPS ran TV commercials, complete with jingles, trying to make logistics something that everyone cares about? No need now. Now, everyone knows how supply chain issues can affect toilet paper supplies, microchips
Continue Reading Supply Chain Issues and Antitrust
Author: Yang Yang. Ms. Yang is an Antitrust Partner at Fairsky Law Offices in Shangai. She is also a lecturer and researcher at China University of Political Science and Law. She authored a treatise on China Merger Control and
Continue Reading Antitrust Merger Control in China: Notifiable Transactions under the People’s Republic of China Anti-Monopoly Law
Authors: Steven Cernak and Luis Blanquez
FTC Chairwoman Lina Khan keeps up her frenetic crusade to change the practice of antitrust enforcement. The new––and surely not last––change: the vertical merger guidelines.
On Wednesday, September 15, 2021, the FTC held
Continue Reading The FTC withdraws Vertical Merger Guidelines. Will it take on big-tech small acquisitions next?
Author: Pat Pascarella
The press is awash in reports on proposed amendments to the antitrust laws and heightened, and in some instances targeted, enforcement agendas at the DOJ, FTC, and state AGs’ offices. While the specifics of each may be
Continue Reading Practical Advice for In-House Counsel Amid the Antitrust Sound and Fury
Authors: Steve Cernak and Luis Blanquez
New management at the FTC keeps reviewing all aspects of the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) premerger notification process. On August 26, the current head of the Bureau of Competition posted a change to a long-standing FTC
Continue Reading The FTC Continues the HSR Antitrust Process’s “Death of a Thousand Cuts”
Author: Steven J. Cernak
In addition to being a full-time antitrust attorney at Bona Law PC, I have taught at least one antitrust course every year since 2009 at three different Michigan law schools. As I prepare for another semester,
Continue Reading Antitrust Courses Still Can Teach Valuable Practical Skills — If Taught Well
Author: Luis Blanquez
Following DOJ’s remarks on blockchain, it was only a matter of time until antitrust law and the unstoppable blockchain world would meet in court. And it finally happened some months ago in the complex Bitmain case.
Continue Reading Antitrust Law Meets Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies in Court: Lessons Learned on Market Definition and Antitrust Injury from the Bitman Case
Author: Jon Cieslak
I recently wrote about the DOJ Antitrust Division’s Leniency Program, and the benefits it can provide to a company engaged in criminal antitrust conduct. Those benefits can extend beyond a company’s immunity agreement with the
Continue Reading Leniency Applications and Limited Liability Under ACPERA
Authors: Steven J. Cernak and Luis Blanquez
On August 3, 2021, the Federal Trade Commission Bureau of Competition announced what might seem like a small technical change to the Hart-Scott-Rodino merger review process: Some proposed mergers would receive form
Continue Reading FTC Guts Major Benefit of Antitrust HSR Process for Merging Parties
