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Antitrust Enforcement
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The CLS Blue Sky Blog
Paul Weiss Discusses Antitrust Enforcement in the Near Term
By Andrew C. Finch, Kenneth A. Gallo, Charles F. (Rick) Rule, Aidan Synnott
President-elect Biden has yet to name the officials who will oversee antitrust enforcement in his administration. Therefore, the focus of the administration’s substantive agenda remains to be seen. However, the…
Global Policy Watch
Expansion of the Procurement Collusion Strike Force
By Ross Demain
Just over a year after launching the Procurement Collusion Strike Force (“PCSF”), the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division (“DOJ”) announced new measures to further its pursuit of antitrust and…
Investigations and Enforcement Blog
DOJ Antitrust Division, Korean Prosecution Service Sign MOU
By Patrick Linehan, Rachel Peck, Patricia Cannaday
On Wednesday, November 18, 2020, head of the DOJ Antitrust Division, Makan Delrahim, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the DOJ and the Korean Prosecution Service (KPS) that supports…
China Law Insight
涉国企并购的反垄断申报要点
By King & Wood
自《国企改革三年行动方案（2020-2022年）》出台以来，国企改革进入快车道。而依据“整体上市”、“混合所有制”、“国有资本投资公司试点”等一系列政策，资本市场成为改革的助推器。其中，并购更是成为国企进行战略性布局调整、优化结构的重要手段，也是民企取得稀缺资质、更好利用政策的重要途径。
Competition chronicle
Competition Bureau Continues to Promote International Cooperation in Enforcement – Enters into a cooperation agreement with Five Eyes Counterparts
By John Pecman
Canada’s Competition Bureau (the “Bureau”) recently signed a new competition enforcement agreement, the Multilateral Mutual Assistance and Cooperation Framework for Competition Authorities (“MMAC”), with competition authorities in the U.S., the…
Antitrust and Competition Report
DOJ’s Antitrust Division makes significant updates to Merger Remedies Manual
By Michelle A. Mantine, Christopher R. Brennan, Keely Dulaney
The Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division updated its Merger Remedies Manual for the first time in more than a decade. The updates improve upon the 2004 Manual by providing a…
Cleary Antitrust Watch
CMA Signs ‘Five Eyes’ Cooperation Framework With U.S., Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand Competition Authorities
On 2 September 2020, the US Department of Justice Antitrust Division (DoJ), the US Federal Trade Commission, the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission,…
The CLS Blue Sky Blog
Skadden Discusses FTC and DOJ Vertical Merger Guidelines
By Karen M. Lent, Kenneth B. Schwartz, David P. Wales, Andrew D. Kabbes
Following their January publication of Draft Vertical Merger Guidelines (draft guidelines) for public comment, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) (collectively, the agencies) issued final…
Antitrust Advocate
Fishy Price Fixing Leads to 40-month Jail Stint
By Darley Maw
On June 16, following a monthlong trial, Christopher Lischewski, former CEO and president of Bumble Bee Foods LLC, was sentenced by Judge Edward Chen of the Northern District of California…
Cleary Antitrust Watch
Council of State Quashes TAR Lazio Judgment That Overturned the ICA Decision Imposing Commitments on Sky After the Withdrawal of Its Notification of the Acquisition of R2
In a judgment issued in a simplified form on June 4, 2020,[1] the Council of State quashed the TAR Lazio judgment that had overturned the ICA decision of May 20,…