Authors: Steven Cernak and Luis Blanquez Section 8 of the Clayton Act prohibits certain interlocking directorates between competing corporations. But while the prohibition has been around since ...| The Antitrust Attorney Blog
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 ...| The Antitrust Attorney Blog
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Author: Steven Cernak This blog has discussed dynamic competition several times recently, such as here and here. Very roughly, the idea is that innovation is the big driver of wealth creation and ...| The Antitrust Attorney Blog
Author: Steven Cernak On July 11, the Department of Justice Antitrust Division filed a Statement of Interest in a private lawsuit alleging anticompetitive collusion among defendants like The ...| The Antitrust Attorney Blog
Authors: Jack Prindle and Steve Cernak Note: Jack Prindle is a student at the University of Virginia School of Law joining Bona Law for the summer. The DOJ’s Antitrust Division would like to ...| The Antitrust Attorney Blog
Author: Molly Donovan & Aaron Gott This Episode Is About: Residential Real Estate and Antitrust Why: A settlement has been reached between the National Association of Realtors (or NAR) and ...| The Antitrust Attorney Blog
Author: Steven Cernak Last week, the FTC voluntarily dismissed its Robinson-Patman Act case against Pepsi that it filed in January. The dismissal and the Commissioner statements accompanying it hinted that the FTC’s determination to revive Robinson-Patman will not be as strong in the Trump Administration. Short and Recent History of the Case This blog has […]| The Antitrust Attorney Blog
Authors: Ruth Glaeser and Steven Cernak In her first major speech since taking the helm of the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division, Assistant Attorney General Gail Slater spotlighted a ...| The Antitrust Attorney Blog
Author: Steven Cernak Late last month, Department of Justice Assistant Attorney General Gail Slater gave her first major policy address, entitled “The Conservative Roots of America First ...| The Antitrust Attorney Blog
Author: Nicolas Petit This is a guest post from noted antitrust and competition law scholar Nicolas Petit. Petit is a Professor of Competition Law in the Department of Law at the European ...| The Antitrust Attorney Blog
Author: Steven Cernak Years ago when I was working in-house at General Motors, one of my bosses asked just what it was that I did at all those ABA Antitrust Section meetings I attended: “Seems ...| The Antitrust Attorney Blog
Author: Luis Blanquez In simple terms algorithmic pricing takes place when competitors make use of a software platform to share competitively sensitive information, which the pricing algorithm ...| The Antitrust Attorney Blog
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Authors: Pat Pascarella and Aaron Gott The idea of Elon Musk purchasing TikTok might sound like a headline ripped from a speculative business column, and maybe it is. But as antitrust lawyers, we couldn’t resist. Obviously, Mr. Musk already owns X, and any such acquisition might raise antitrust concerns. But could you head off those […]| The Antitrust Attorney Blog
Authors: Steven Cernak and Luis Blanquez On January 10, 2025, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued its usual annual announcement to increase the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Act thresholds. The ...| The Antitrust Attorney Blog
Author: Luis Blanquez We recently wrote about the Federal Trade Commission’s blog post explaining how relying on a common algorithm to determine your pricing decisions might violate Section 1 of ...| The Antitrust Attorney Blog
Author: Luis Blanquez Are you delegating your pricing decisions to a common algorithm software platform? If so, you might violate the antitrust laws. It may not even matter whether you actually ...| The Antitrust Attorney Blog
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Author: Luis Blanquez A company using a blockchain––or perhaps even the blockchain itself––, with a sizeable share of a market, could be a monopolist subject to U.S. antitrust laws. But monopoly ...| The Antitrust Attorney Blog
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