Region: United States of America

The Department of Justice has said two executives of Endeavor Group stepped down from ticket-seller rival Live Nation Entertainment’s board after the agency expressed concerns that their positions violated antitrust law.

22 June 2021

Federal Trade Commission member Rebecca Kelly Slaughter has suggested that a remedy that could address Facebook’s control over data could still be on the table in the agency’s monopolisation lawsuit against the company.

21 June 2021

The House Judiciary Committee will discuss recently introduced antitrust bills next week, committee chair Jerrold Nadler has said as practitioners and antitrust experts voice concerns about the proposed legislation.

17 June 2021

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has said it does not have jurisdiction to review litigation alleging that Phoenix Services’ assertion of a patent violated antitrust law.

11 June 2021

The former chief executive of Altria has rebutted claims from the Federal Trade Commission that company officials misled their board of directors about the performance of Altria’s e-cigarette business.

10 June 2021

One of the negotiators of the Altria/Juul Labs transaction has told the Federal Trade Commission’s administrative law court that he expected the FTC to require Altria to sell its e-cigarette business for the companies to win approval of their deal.

08 June 2021

Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom has promoted two competition law specialists to counsel, while former EFTA Court president Carl Baudenbacher has founded a boutique firm in Zurich alongside antitrust attorney Laura Melusine Baudenbacher.

07 June 2021

Reynolds American has said Altria was one of its main competitors in the e-vapour business before the latter exited the market, as the latter seeks to prove that it did not stop selling its e-cigarettes to facilitate an anticompetitive deal with rival Juul Labs.

04 June 2021

Altria and the Federal Trade Commission have presented diverging explanations as to why the company took its e-vapour cigarette products off the market – a core issue in the agency’s suit to unwind Altria’s $12.8 billion investment in rival Juul Labs.

03 June 2021

The Federal Trade Commission’s chief administrative law judge has said he will ensure that the trial starting today in the agency’s dispute with Altria and Juul Labs is a “fair proceeding”, after counsel to the companies raised concerns about surprise documents and expert testimony.

02 June 2021