Region: North America

TikTok has granted Texas-based technology company Oracle access to its source code, algorithm and content moderation material as part of an ongoing effort to quell national security concerns in the US.

25 May 2023

Allen & Overy and Shearman & Sterling plan to combine in a $3.4 billion tie-up that would mark one of the biggest legal mergers in history and create a truly global antitrust practice with 50 partners.

22 May 2023

Several landowners orchestrated an illegal conspiracy to charge supracompetitive prices for the purchase of some of their properties in rural California, Flannery Associates has argued.

22 May 2023

Featured in Class actions hub

The most recent in a run of decisions to demonstrate judicial willingness to deny the authorisation of unsubstantiated claims, Hazan highlights that proposed class actions can be defeated if the pleaded facts constitute mere assertions, which are insufficient to form an arguable case.

18 May 2023

Dealmaker Ryan Tisch has joined the partnership at McDermott Will & Emery in Washington, DC, following two decades with Crowell & Moring.

18 May 2023

The head of Canada’s Competition Bureau has warned that the country needs to get “really serious, really fast” about its antitrust regime, after a recent economic report linked insufficient competition to falling living standards.

17 May 2023

Canada’s current foreign investment review process combined with ongoing global geopolitical tension could be making the country an almost “dangerous” place to invest, a former adviser to the country’s prime minister has said.

17 May 2023

Pacific Seafood is urging a federal court to reject a lawsuit accusing it of illegally monopolising the market for purchasing Dungeness crabs because it never did business with the suing angler.

17 May 2023

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While the FTC increasingly demonstrates its willingness to use the act to take a creative approach to tackling anticompetitive conduct, a deep dive into a seminal Supreme Court case demonstrates the potential financial difficulties of applying older legislation.

16 May 2023

The US Soccer Federation is asking a federal appellate court to hold off on reviving allegations it illegally conspired to limit competitive matches until after it petitions the Supreme Court to weigh in.

16 May 2023