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Navigating the New UAE Competition Law: Moving Towards EU Principles? Part 4—UAE Prohibition on Abuse of Dominant Position and...

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Similarly to the Old Law, the New Competition Law prohibits the abuse of a “dominant position” in the relevant market by any undertaking, including acts or conduct aimed at distorting, lessening, restricting, or preventing...more

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Navigating the New UAE Competition Law: Moving Towards EU Principles? Part 3—UAE Prohibition on Restrictive Agreements and Article...

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The New Competition Law maintained the prohibition on restrictive agreements and practices between undertakings whose object, purpose, or impact is to distort, lessen, prevent, or restrict competition. These prohibited...more

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DOJ Speaks Again: Information Exchanges Can Constitute Stand-Alone Violation of Antitrust Laws

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The US Department of Justice Antitrust Division (DOJ) continues to send strong warnings to companies sharing information outside of their organizations, including through third-party reporting services or pricing software,...more

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Gibson Decision Hands Atlantic City Casino-Hotels Dismissal of Price-Fixing Claims

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As Holland & Knight's Antitrust Team previously reported, the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada in May 2024 dismissed with prejudice a putative class action alleging that a handful of Las Vegas hotel operators...more

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Ninth Circuit Says Political Question, Act of State Doctrines Bar Gasoline Consumers’ Price-Fixing Claims

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On September 16, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a United States District Court’s dismissal of a proposed class action by gasoline consumers against several energy companies in D’Augusta v. American Petroleum...more

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Antitrust & Competition Healthcare Quarterly Update Q2 2024

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In the second quarter, federal and state antitrust enforcers continued their intense scrutiny of consolidation in the healthcare market by implementing new initiatives and laws designed to gather additional information...more

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Five Steps Hotel Owners, Operators, and Management Companies Can Take to Mitigate Risk in the Face of Heightened Antitrust...

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Revenue-management tools are ubiquitous across sectors, but many hotel owners, operators, and management companies use such tools on a daily basis. As these products have improved, many have incorporated algorithms enabling...more

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Reliance on Third-Party “Pricing” Facilitators Under Increasing Antitrust Scrutiny

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In the past year, healthcare systems and providers across the country have filed a series of antitrust lawsuits against MultiPlan Inc. and major US health insurers, alleging a hub-and-spoke conspiracy to fix and reduce...more

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The Evolving Role of “Agreement” in U.S. v. RealPage

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A clear case of horizontal price fixing. Private antitrust plaintiffs are increasingly bringing cases alleging that the use of a common, commercially available pricing algorithm by multiple competitors constitutes price...more

Whitman Legal Solutions, LLC

Confusion Abounds with Buyer Brokerage Agreements Post NAR Settlement

The real estate industry is experiencing a situation due to new rules relating to buyers’ brokers in residential real estate transactions. Earlier this year, facing a $1.8 Billion verdict, the National Association of Realtors...more

The Volkov Law Group

Antitrust Division Indicts Company, Executive and Employee for $100 Million Price-Fixing Conspiracy

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DOJ’s Antitrust Division has been relatively quiet in prosecuting criminal cartel or bid-rigging cases.  Since 2015, the Antitrust Division’s criminal enforcement has fallen from the billions in penalties each year to the...more

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The Interplay Key Decisions at the Intersection of Antitrust and Life Sciences - June 2024

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Court Orders Delisting of Patents from Orange Book and Denies Motion to Dismiss Antitrust Counterclaims for Improper Orange Book Listings. On June 10, Judge Stanley Chesler of the District of New Jersey entered judgment on...more

Jenner & Block

[Ongoing Program] CLE Relay – Session 6 – Information Exchanges: Navigating Antitrust Risk Without Safe Harbors - June 25th, 10:00...

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In recent years, information exchange has become a priority for both government antitrust enforcers and private antitrust plaintiffs. Across industries, business practices such as benchmarking and algorithmic price setting...more

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Algorithmic Price-Setting by Multiple Competitors is a U.S. Antitrust Enforcement Priority

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For the third time in as many months, the U.S. federal antitrust enforcement authorities -- the Federal Trade Commission and the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice -- have filed a statement of interest in an...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Break(ing) Point: The Latest Antitrust Class Action Aimed at the NCAA

University of North Carolina women’s tennis standout Reese Brantmeier has filed a class action complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina alleging that the NCAA imposed “arbitrary and...more

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Algorithmic Pricing – The ‘New Frontier’ of Antitrust Law

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Summary - Government antitrust enforcers and plaintiffs’ class action lawyers are increasingly focusing on algorithmic pricing software programs used in various sectors of the real estate market. Driving this focus is...more

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Senators Consider Reforms to Antitrust Law to Address Algorithmic Price-Fixing and Self-Preferencing — AI: The Washington Report

Welcome to this week's issue of AI: The Washington Report, a joint undertaking of Mintz and its government affairs affiliate, ML Strategies. This week, we discuss the Senate Judiciary Committee’s December 13, 2023 hearing...more

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Multifamily Update: Rent Control Coalition Analysis, ROFR Proposals, and Algorithmic Pricing

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Our most recent Alert included details and updates on rent control, proposed FTC regulation of rental housing junk fees, security camera mandates, and new ROFR proposals. Here is a link to the November 15 Alert. Below are...more

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Antitrust Issues in Renewable Energy - November 2023

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Participants in the renewable energy industry should be aware of antitrust and competition rules because renewable energy is no longer a nascent field. Europe generated almost 40% of its electricity from renewable sources in...more

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Tuna Price-Fixing Summary Judgment Decision Is a Warning to Private Equity

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A private equity firm and its investment advisor are facing trial over claims they participated in a price-fixing conspiracy for canned tuna carried out at their portfolio company, Bumble Bee tuna. The judge overseeing the...more

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Antitrust Criminal Enforcement on the Horizon

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With the end of summer and fall right around the corner, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Antitrust Division is gearing up for several crucial displays of its criminal enforcement priorities across multiple...more

The Volkov Law Group

DOJ Settles Criminal Antitrust Charges with Teva and Glenmark for $305 Million

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The Antitrust Division has been active – like any aggressive prosecution strategy, however, its results have been mixed.  Its record in criminal cases has taken serious hits – a stunning set of losses in the chicken...more

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Broiler Chicken Price-Fixing and Information Exchange Claims Against Agri Stats Defeated

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On June 30, 2023 the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois granted a summary judgment motion filed by Hogan Lovells’ antitrust litigation team on behalf of its client Agri Stats, a company that provides...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Quarterly Cartel Catch-Up: Recent Developments in Criminal Antitrust for Busy Corporate Counsel ‒ 2nd Quarter 2023

At this mid-point of 2023, and now several months on from the ABA’s Spring Antitrust conference, there have been several notable developments concerning cartel enforcement, as new leadership settles in at the U.S. Department...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

New York Price Gouging Rules: 8 New Policies Businesses Need to Know

In June 2020, former Governor Andrew Cuomo signed into law legislation amending New York’s price gouging statute. One provision granted the attorney general broad authority to promulgate rules “necessary to effectuate and...more

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