Calls for changes to antitrust law, and how antitrust laws should be applied to the conduct of large technology companies, have been heating up in recent years. Now, the push for wide-scale changes to antitrust law has...more
8/2/2021
/ Biden Administration ,
Bipartisan Agreement ,
Competition ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Executive Branch ,
Executive Orders ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Filing Fees ,
Legislative Agendas ,
Modernization ,
Proposed Legislation ,
Technology Sector
There have been a number of developments in merger control in 2020 and Q1 2021. Some are related to the repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic, while others are borne out of the ambitions and changes sought by individual...more
On February 1, 2021, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced the annual changes to the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Act notification thresholds.
The FTC is required by law to revise the jurisdictional thresholds...more
What Quanta Storage and Qualcomm mean for Taiwan's businesses.
Antitrust litigation in the US continues to focus on competitor interactions. Companies that participate in multiple levels of a supply chain must consider how...more
9/24/2020
/ Antitrust Investigations ,
Antitrust Litigation ,
Antitrust Violations ,
Civil Conspiracy ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Follow-On Patent Petitions ,
FRAND ,
IP License ,
Monopolization ,
Price-Fixing ,
Qualcomm ,
Quanta ,
Sherman Act ,
Standard Essential Patents ,
Supply Chain ,
Taiwan ,
Treble Damages
Bankruptcy can provide important advantages to companies considering M&A activity today. M&A purchases of bankrupt companies obviously often feature significantly depressed valuations and a small universe of potentially...more
DOJ Antitrust Division successfully uses private-style arbitration for first time to block a merger, and force a divestiture as a condition to closing.1 DOJ’s novel use of arbitration to resolve liability in a merger case has...more
On January 28, 2020, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced the annual changes to the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Act notification thresholds....more
1/29/2020
/ Acquisitions ,
Antitrust Provisions ,
Business Valuations ,
Civil Monetary Penalty ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Filing Fees ,
Hart-Scott-Rodino Act ,
Mergers ,
Pre-Merger Filing Requirements ,
Premerger Notifications ,
Size of Persons Test ,
Size of Transaction Test ,
Threshold Requirements
What a change in US criminal antitrust charging policy means for Taiwanese businesses.
In July 2019, the Antitrust Division of the US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced a new policy to encourage the implementation of...more
9/18/2019
/ Antitrust Investigations ,
Antitrust Violations ,
Best Practices ,
Bid Rigging ,
Compliance ,
Corporate Governance ,
Criminal Antitrust Litigation ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Multinationals ,
Price-Fixing ,
Risk Assessment ,
Risk Mitigation ,
Taiwan ,
United States
Technology products are increasingly characterized by their ability to facilitate interconnectedness. More and more, tech innovators find themselves subject to increasing scrutiny under global competition laws when they...more
7/11/2019
/ Anti-Steering Rules ,
Anticompetitive Behavior ,
Antitrust Violations ,
Apple ,
Apple Inc v Pepper ,
Buyers ,
Credit Cards ,
Digital Platforms ,
Financial Harm ,
Indirect Purchasers ,
iPhone ,
Merchants ,
Ohio v American Express ,
SCOTUS ,
Sellers ,
Sherman Act ,
Standing ,
Technology Sector
The renewed interest in taking a fresh look at how antitrust can apply to tech has generated any number of "Hipster Antitrust" theories of harm. With the US Federal Trade Commission announcing a new Tech Task Force this...more
7/8/2019
/ Anti-Competitive ,
Antitrust Investigations ,
Antitrust Violations ,
Collaboration ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Information Sharing ,
Innovation ,
Interlocking Directorate ,
Risk Assessment ,
Section 8 ,
Technology Sector ,
The Clayton Act
On May 21, 2019, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California found that Qualcomm violated the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Act, in an antitrust decision significant to licensing...more
6/3/2019
/ Anti-Competitive ,
Antitrust Violations ,
Appeals ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
FRAND ,
FTC Act ,
Injunctive Relief ,
IP License ,
Licensing Rights ,
Microchip Technology ,
Monopolization ,
Motion To Stay ,
Popular ,
Qualcomm ,
Restraint of Trade ,
Sherman Act ,
Standard Essential Patents ,
Technology Sector
On February 15, 2019, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced the annual changes to the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Act notification thresholds.
The FTC is required by law to revise the jurisdictional thresholds annually,...more