The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) are working on new horizontal merger guidelines, which may be ready by the end of the year, that could include significant changes to the way regulators approach merger analysis. The new rules governing mergers...
Antitrust laws in the U.S. were enacted more than 100 years ago, but for Jon Roellke, partner at Morgan Lewis, this is the most significant antitrust moment in the last 35 years of his career. President Joe Biden issued an executive order in July 2021...
Digital platforms are under scrutiny in many jurisdictions. In the U.S. and the EU, there are significant bill projects that will regulate how platforms interact with their competitors. In the EU, the Digital Markets Act (DMA) is moving toward final approval, while in the U.S....
Italian cloud provider Aruba SpA and several Denmark-based cloud providers have filed a complaint against Microsoft Corp with the European Union’s antitrust watchdog, charging Microsoft with undermining its competition and limiting consumers’ cloud computing services choice, Bloomberg reported Wednesday (April 13). France’s OVH was the...
Apple Inc. CEO Tim Cook used a speech to privacy professionals in Washington, D.C., to warn that proposed antitrust legislation will make iPhones less safe and put users at risk to companies seeking to elude its privacy features, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday (April 12). “Taking...
Judge Amit Mehta, the U.S. federal judge hearing the government’s antitrust case against Alphabet’s Google, said he isn’t convinced he can sanction the company for overzealous attorney-client privilege use, Reuters reported Friday (April 8). Mehta said that would be the case if the behavior occurred...
Last year, South Korea became the first country to approve legislation changing Google and Apple Inc.’s policies on how apps on their platforms sell subscriptions, in-game items, and other online content. The law forbids Google and Apple from forcing apps to use their own in-app...
Visa will need to defend, for the second time, its debit card fees in an antitrust suit filed by payment processing network Pulse Network L.L.C. for practices that it claims reduce competition in the debit card market. On April 5, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court...
Jonathan Kanter, assistant attorney general at the Department of Justice (DOJ) antitrust division, delivered on Monday his remarks at the 2022 Spring Enforcers Summit announcing the division’s plans to step up their enforcement actions. The time for this summit and his remarks have probably been...
