One useful feature of Practical Guidance is the collection of material from Lexis’ antitrust treatises, organized by topic area. Immediately below is an excerpt from the von Kalinowski treatise (Antitrust Laws and Trade Regulation) on the types of conduct...
By Lindsey Lambert The Wall Street Journal reported that the Department of Justice is investigating the PGA Tour over potential antitrust violations. All of the sudden, the PGA Tour’s monopoly is under attack, and the future of professional golf is up in...
Our new Market Standards–Antitrust tool helps antitrust and M&A attorneys research market trends and locate precedent language for antitrust provisions within publicly-filed merger agreements. Review over 1,400 agreements for antitrust deal points, including...
Both antitrust and M&A attorneys will find this timeline useful to understand the stages of an antitrust merger review. At a quick glance, an attorney can understand the timeline, from filing of the HSR notification through expiration of the HSR notification...
Monopsony occurs when a buyer or group of buyers gain market power and the accompanying ability to harm competition among upstream input providers. Our practice note on monopsony provides overviews of recent cases where the court provided helpful in-depth analysis...
Use our monopolization complaint as a template for your own complaint or to understand what a monopolization claim might look like. READ NOW » Related Content Demand for Relief in an Antitrust Complaint Set out the relief demanded in an antitrust...
We have lots of resources to help your summer associates learn about both law firm life and substantive antitrust law. These substantive resources serve as a good introduction to antitrust particularly for summer associates who haven’t yet taken an antitrust...
In addition to resources that cover all of the substantive areas of antitrust law, we also have resources dedicated to antitrust civil litigation. Some of the highlights include practice notes dedicated to summary judgment motions, discovery, and expert testimony...
In Illinois Brick v. Illinois , the Supreme Court held that indirect purchasers (those who purchase from an intermediary) had no standing under the federal antitrust laws. However, various states allow for some type of recovery by or on behalf of indirect purchasers...
U.S. antitrust lawyers don’t practice EU competition law, obviously, but a familiarity with the EU approach to parallel issues can be useful to help spot issues for clients. Practical Guidance features select documents from our sister product, Lexis PSL,...
Joint ventures combine elements of typical commercial agreements between entities with elements of full mergers or acquisitions. Therefore, they may be governed by both Section 1 of the Sherman Act and Section 7 of the Clayton Kit. Our resource kit includes materials...
Updated October 26, 2023 Healthcare antitrust enforcement remains a high priority for the FTC. Our resource kit guides attorneys through healthcare industry merger and conduct investigations as well as day-to-day compliance issues. READ NOW » Related...
Our merger enforcement tracker helps you keep track of recent DOJ and FTC merger enforcement actions, including the DOJ’s recent challenge of Verzatec’s acquisition of Crane Composites. Read Now » Related Content FTC Antitrust Case Tracker...
Items 4(c) and 4(d) of the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) notification form call for the production of certain documents about the transaction, including certain confidential information memoranda (CIM) and any documents prepared for the board that evaluate the transaction...
Discovery in antitrust cases is notoriously broad, burdensome, and expensive. Antitrust counsel can eliminate a certain amount of needless burden and expense by carefully considering (and where appropriate, collaborating in advance on) their plans for discovery...