The Federal Trade Commission has sued to block Nvidia’s $40 billion acquisition of Arm from SoftBank, asserting that the combined company would have the ability and incentive to stifle innovation in the chip market.
The City of Oakland does not have antitrust standing to accuse the National Football League of price-fixing but other cities might, a federal appellate court has said.
A jury verdict invalidating one of Illumina’s DNA-sequencing patents may allow a rival to enter the US market at an earlier date, likely influencing ongoing antitrust litigation between both companies and possibly …
The former head of the media, entertainment and communications section at the Department of Justice’s antitrust division has joined Kirkland & Ellis as a partner in the firm’s office in Washington, DC.
A federal judge in Washington, DC, has agreed to extend discovery by 45 days in the Department of Justice’s monopolisation case against Google while stressing that he will not move the trial …
The country’s most-cited antitrust academic says US monopoly law is not up to the task of protecting competition in digital markets. GCR USA spoke to University of Pennsylvania Law School professor Herbert Hovenkamp about his new paper calling for Congress to take some inspiration from the EU and adopt an abuse of dominance standard.
Several members of the antitrust bar have expressed concern that the Federal Trade Commission’s decision to erase its name from the 2020 Vertical Merger Guidelines makes merger control in the US less predictable. Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath partners Dylan Carson and Alicia Batts give their views on where they think vertical merger enforcement now stands.
Since Democrats took the reins at the Federal Trade Commission, they have made changes to the merger review process that have drawn criticism from their Republican colleagues. In an exclusive piece, Republican Commissioner Noah Phillips outlines his concerns about how the new processes could be undermining the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act, which guides US merger control.
Gwendolyn Cooley, Wisconsin’s top antitrust enforcer, will soon have an additional 55 state competition offices under her purview. GCR USA spoke to Cooley about what she hopes to accomplish as she takes over as the next chair of the antitrust task force for the National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) on 26 October.
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