September 08, 2021
Antitrust Brainstorming Board with Spencer Weber Waller
Below, we have provided the full transcript of the interview with Prof. Spencer Weber Waller, Professor and Director of the Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies at Loyola University Chicago, recorded...
September 08, 2021
Antitrust Brainstorming Board with John Kwoka
Below, we have provided the full transcript of the interview with Prof. John Kwoka, the Neal F. Finnegan Distinguished Professor of Economics at Northeastern University, recorded on August 25, 2021....
September 05, 2021
Kansas City Southern Reconsiders $27B Offer From Canadian Pacific
The board of the Kansas City Southern railroad is reconsidering a $27bn offer from Canadian Pacific, despite an agreement to sell the company to a rival, after a US regulator...
August 31, 2021
CPI TV Ten Minutes With ADC President Margarida Matos Rosa
Below, we have provided the full transcript of the interview with Margarida Matos Rosa, President of the Portuguese Competition Authority, the Autoridade da Concorrência (ADC), recorded on August 19, 2021....
August 17, 2021
Retailers Face ‘18-Month Struggle’ As Global Supply Chains Remain Tangled
For months, nearly every retailer has bemoaned slower supply chains and a lack of available inventory as terminal closures and bottlenecks at ports continue to frustrate international trade. Last week,...
August 10, 2021
Canadian Pacific Raises Offer For Kansas City Southern To $27B
Canadian Pacific made a new, higher offer on Tuesday, August 10, to buy Kansas City Southern worth about US$31 billion, including debt, reviving its takeover battle for the US freight...
August 05, 2021
Biden’s Antitrust Changes Have Added To Merger Investors’ Concerns
US President Joe Biden’s tougher regulatory stance on big corporate mergers has fueled a rise in investor bets on some deals not being completed, reported Reuters. Spreads between deal prices...
July 27, 2021
“Not” Madison
This essay challenges the claim that President James Madison, the namesake of the Trump Administration’s “New Madison” Approach to Antitrust and Intellectual Property Law, was an advocate for strong patent...
July 19, 2021
Biden’s New Antitrust Rules May Threaten Railway Mega-Merger
Kansas City Southern investors are worried that the Biden administration’s tougher stance on antitrust enforcement may signal trouble for the company’s US$34 billion plan to sell itself to Canadian National...