relating to legislative initiatives aimed at protecting trade and commerce from monopolistic business practices that restrict or eliminate competition. Antitrust laws also attempt to curb trusts and cartels and to keep them from employing monopolistic practices to make unfair profits.
Wiktionary Definition for: Antitrust
#Opposed to or against the establishment or existence of trusts (monopoly monopolies), usually referring to legislation.
Ex:''The regulators used '''antitrust''' laws to block the merger, believing it would eliminate competition.''
From the executive summary ‘Antitrust Law is a type of Government intervention in the marketplace, in the form of indirect regulation The primary reason for such policies is to promote and preserve competition in the market system. In other words, the role of antitrust is to make markets competitive. Some...
Antitrust policy continues to evolve and New International Competition Network ICN sets non-binding principles for reviewing international mergers. In the same context, this article discusses the global merger environment, US and EU antitrust and their merger policy. It highlights the recent transatlantic mergers, such as those of Honeywell/GE; Schneider/Legrand; Tetra...
International antitrust law and practice are transforming rapidly, in large part due to leadership and legislative changes, recent court cases and merger reforms. The American Bar Association Section of Antitrust Law will hold an International Antitrust Forum to explore the changing antitrust landscape, featuring agency heads from a number of...
Antitrust issues can have a critical impact on the success of any transaction involving purchase or sale of a company or unit. The paper emphasizes on the importance of antitrust issues in every M&A transaction. Antitrust violations, which often are ongoing in nature, can lead to substantial civil damages and...
After a false start in January, the Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") and the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice ("DOJ") have entered into a Memorandum of Agreement this week, clarifying the lines of Agency responsibility for merger reviews and other antitrust matters.
Most business owners do not consider the potential for an antitrust review of their proposed acquisition transactions. Actual antitrust review of most restaurant acquisitions does not occur for a variety of reasons. Given the growing number of multiple unit restaurant operators, the rapid consolidation of franchised restaurants, and the large...
This article analyzes antitrust concerns of B2B ventures of E-Commerce Law, discusses issues concerning the size of the venture and the potential for coordination and collusion among rivals. It also discusses the issues of monopsony power, exclusion, and exclusivity. This article says antitrust plays a vital role in making sure...
If the intricacies of the Federal Sherman Act or other antitrust laws are "foreign" to you, the Federal Trade Commission may have a booklet that can translate the incomprehensible legalese into semi-comprehensible governmentese. The booklet, which the FTC calls "The Plain English Guide to Antitrust Laws," contains 20 pages of...
WASHINGTON -- A 2007 Yale Law graduate practicing in the UK has won the Third Annual William E. Swope Antitrust Prize for a paper analyzing the recent introduction of U.S.-style antitrust settlements in the European Union. The $10,000 award celebrates a former Jones Day partner and his pioneering fact-intensive approach...
The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee passed a bill that allows the U.S. government to bring antitrust lawsuits against OPEC. Sen. Mike DeWine (R-Ohio) said, U.S. consumers suffer from "unreasonably high and erratic pricing" and the U.S. must go after the source of the problem. Presently, antitrust laws exclude OPEC. But,...
"Private Antitrust Actions: The Structure and Process of Civil Antitrust Litigation" has been published by Little, Brown & Co. (Boston, MA). The volume is a guide to evaluating and conducting a private antitrust suit and includes analysis"Private Antitrust Actions: The Structure and Process of Civil Antitrust...
WASHINGTON -- A University of Chicago law student won the William E. Swope Antitrust Prize for a paper analyzing conflicts of antitrust and patent law raised in the industry standard-setting process. The annual $10,000 writing prize celebrates a former Jones Day partner and his pioneering fact-intensive approach to antitrust analysis.
MIT Press (Cambridge, MA) has published "Lectures on Antitrust Economics," a book that offers an account of the economics behind antitrust and an examination of the most recent developments in antitrust economics, highlighting areas that re MIT Press (Cambridge, MA) has published "Lectures on Antitrust ...
Circuit City has received Canadian antitrust clearance for its proposed acquisition of InterTAN and that the U.S. Federal Trade Commission has determined the transaction is not subject to premerger antitrust review under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976. Circuit City announced its intentions to acquire the company on March...
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