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EUROPA - PRESS RELEASES - Press Release - Speech: Sustainability and reporting: Europe at the forefront

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europa.eu - European Commissioner for the Internal Market and Services Sustainability and reporting: Europe at the forefront Global conference on sustainability and reporting (GRI) First of all, let me thank t...

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The road to competition reforms: the Australian experience

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accc.gov.au - Australian Competition and Consumer Commission Chairman Rod Sims today provided Latin American and Caribbean officials and regulators with an insight on competition reforms in Australia. “Competiti...

Education

Times Of Swaziland

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times.co.sz - EZULWINI – The success of the establishment of the Swaziland Competition Commission (SCC) will hinge on independence from all sorts of interferences. In fact, Chairman of the Board of Directors of ...

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Supreme Court Lets Regulators Sue Over Generic Drug Deals - NYTimes.com

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nytimes.com - In a 5-to-3 vote, the justices effectively said that the Federal Trade Commission can sue pharmaceutical companies for potential antitrust violations, a decision that is likely to increase the numb...

Politics

Obama suggests he won't renominate Ben Bernanke as Fed chair - chicagotribune.com

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latimes.com - President Obama suggested he might not renominate Ben S. Bernanke for a third term as chairman of the Federal Reserve, saying the central bank chief has already stayed in the job longer than origin...

Stories

How to Crack a Nut: CJEU gives blow to competition lawyers: Your (legal) opinion is worthless (C-681/11)

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howtocrackanut.blogspot.com - "Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?" ~ John Keats "If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others." ~ Tryon Edwar...

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EU High Court Says Legal Advice No Antitrust Defense - Law360

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law360.com - Share us on: Twitter Facebook LinkedIn By Melissa Lipman 0 Comments Select primary interest Antitrust & Competition Law Banking Bankruptcy & Restructuring Corporate Law Energy Litigation & Regulati...

Business

Steve Jobs' draft email plays pivotal role in antitrust case - Macworld Australia - Macworld Australia

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idgns.com - An email composed, but never sent, by former Apple CEO Steve Jobs may prove instrumental in the US Justice Department’s case that Apple, along with the five largest book publishers, colluded to fix...

Business

FTC Chairwoman Edith Ramirez Names Senior Staff

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ftc.gov - Federal Trade Commission Chairwoman Edith Ramirez has named seven senior staff members with extensive experience in consumer protection and antitrust law. “I am very pleased to have such a strong l...

Business

Ex-FTC Chief Leibowitz Joins Davis Polk's Antitrust Practice - Law360

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law360.com - Share us on: Twitter Facebook LinkedIn By Gavin Broady 0 Comments Select primary interest Antitrust & Competition Law Banking Bankruptcy & Restructuring Corporate Law Energy Litigation & Regulation...

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Heineken Weighs New Brewery for Mexico Comeback in AB InBev Duel - Businessweek

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businessweek.com - Heineken NV (HEIA) may build a new brewery in Mexico as it wins back market share lost after its 2010 purchase of the nation’s second-largest brewer, said Marc Busain, the company’s top executive i...

Business

Akin Gump Atty's Emails Irrelevant In MLB Row, Yankees Say - Law360

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law360.com - Share us on: Twitter Facebook LinkedIn By Scott Flaherty 0 Comments Select primary interest Antitrust & Competition Law Banking Bankruptcy & Restructuring Corporate Law Energy Litigation & Regulati...

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Competition Bureau raids Quebec light manufacturers - The Globe and Mail

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theglobeandmail.com - Armed with search warrants from the Quebec Superior Court, the federal Competition Bureau launched a seried of raids Tuesday morning as part of a probe into the activities of firms that sell highwa...

Art & Entertainment

Vodafone and Liberty face battle for Kabel Deutschland - chicagotribune.com

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chicagotribune.com - The logo of Kabel Deutschland is written on a door bell at the Kabel Deutschland playout center in Frankfurt (Lisi Niesner Reuters, / March 14, 2013)

Business

2nd Circ. Asked To Revive $1B Microsoft Antitrust Suit - Law360

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law360.com - Share us on: Twitter Facebook LinkedIn By Scott Flaherty 0 Comments Select primary interest Antitrust & Competition Law Banking Bankruptcy & Restructuring Corporate Law Energy Litigation & Regulati...

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Section of Antitrust Law: Scholar-In-Residence Program

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apps.americanbar.org - Sebastian's current research project compares private antitrust enforcement in Germany, the UK and the United States. Private antitrust enforcement has developed differently in these jurisdictions ...

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Supreme Court Permits Antitrust Scrutiny Of Pharma Settlements - Forbes

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forbes.com - In a ruling that is likely to have a far-reaching impact on the pharmaceutical industry, the Supreme Court permitted antitrust scrutiny of reverse pay settlements used between brand name drug maker...

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How EU Competition Law Applies To Data Collection Issues - Law360

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law360.com - Share us on: Twitter Facebook LinkedIn   0 Comments Select primary interest Antitrust & Competition Law Banking Bankruptcy & Restructuring Corporate Law Energy Litigation & Regulation Environmental...

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Why competition policy is important

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smartcompany.com.au - If there is a 'root and branch' review of competition laws after the next election, it should be led by a group of sexagenarians. That is, people aged at least 60. Why? Because they will remember h...

Education

The Impact of Competition Policy: What are the Known Unknowns? by S. W. Davies, Peter L. Ormosi :: SSRN

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papers.ssrn.com - Keywords: anticompetitive harm, competition enforcement, impact assessment, selection bias, cartels, mergers

Education

An Optimal Incentive Tax Policy on Horizontal Mergers by Sang-Ho Lee :: SSRN

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papers.ssrn.com - Keywords: Antitrust policy, horizontal merger, Asymmetric information, Lump-sum tax, incentive compatibility, Mechanism design

Business

AAI Statement in Response to the U.S. Supreme Court's 5-3 Opinion Supporting the FTC in its Challenge to "Pay-for Delay" in FTC v. Actavis

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antitrustinstitute.org - The American Antitrust Institute (AAI) gives two-and-a-half cheers for the Supreme Court's decision, which supports application of the antitrust laws to reverse payment settlements in which branded...

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FCC nominee Tom Wheeler to face Senate committee - Post Tech - The Washington Post

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washingtonpost.com - Tom Wheeler, President Obama’s nominee for chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, is set to speak before the Senate Commerce Committee Tuesday for his nominations hearing. A former tech...

Society

Winston & Strawn Antitrust and Competition - The EU Weekly Briefing, Volume 1, Issue 32

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winston.com - These materials have been prepared by Winston & Strawn LLP for informational purposes only. These materials do not constitute legal advice and cannot be relied upon by any taxpayer for the purpose ...

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At the FTC, Lawyers Cycle In and Out of Top Spots - The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times

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legaltimes.typepad.com - The revolving door between the Federal Trade Commission and big firms is spinning briskly with news that former chairman Jon Leibowitz is joining Davis Polk & Wardwell as a partner and Deborah Fein...

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Supreme Court Rules That “Pay for Delay” Generic Drug Patent Settlements Are Not Shielded From Antitrust Liability

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antitrustadvocate.com - The Supreme Court has held that the antitrust laws may forbid patent settlements that delay the market entry of generic drugs in return for large payments from manufacturers of competing branded dr...

Business

EU Said to Raise No Objections to ICE Takeover of NYSE Euronext - Businessweek

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businessweek.com - European antitrust regulators have lodged no objections to IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) Inc.’s takeover of NYSE Euronext (NYX) as a decision on the transaction approaches, according to a person w...

Business

UPDATE 3-U.S. top court says FTC can sue over deals that delay generic drug sales

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in.reuters.com - WASHINGTON, June 17 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday regulators can challenge deals between brand-name drug companies and generic rivals that delay cheaper medicines from going on...

Business

The Apple e-book antitrust case: The final four days - Apple 2.0 -Fortune Tech

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tech.fortune.cnn.com - FORTUNE -- Eddy Cue, the alleged "ringmaster" of a conspiracy to raise e-book prices in 2010, returns to a Manhattan federal court Monday in the final four days of the Department of Justice's antit...

Business

Breakingviews: Supreme Court offers cure for generic drug delays

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newsandinsight.thomsonreuters.com - Breakingviews: Interns among things in life that should be free Ex-owner of litigation funder pleads guilty to kickback scheme Detroit default, restructuring plan break new ground: Moody's SCOTUS p...

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Supreme Court's pay-for-delay ruling ensures more antitrust cases

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newsandinsight.thomsonreuters.com - Baby recliner maker settles with product safety commission Q&A: Skadden's patent litigation head on damages and de novo review G8 urges Europe to move on bank reform, Japan to fix budget Bigger Ill...

Society

FTC Can Sue Big Pharma for Pay to Delay, Supreme Court Rules

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jdsupra.com - The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has the right to sue when big pharmaceutical companies pay smaller firms to keep generic drugs off the market, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled today. In FTC v. Actav...

Business

CFTC Expands List of Acceptable Legal Entity Identifiers

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jdsupra.com - The Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued an amended order that expands the list of acceptable legal entity identifiers (LEIs) for purposes of swap data reporting and recordkeeping obligation...

Business

Reverse-Payment Patent Settlements Subject to Antitrust Analysis

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jdsupra.com - The Supreme Court today decided FTC v. Actavis, Inc. and held, in a 5-3 decision authored by Justice Breyer, that so-called reverse-payment patent settlements are subject to full antitrust Rule of ...

Business

FTC Revises Red Flags Identity Theft Rule Business Guide

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jdsupra.com - On June 12, the FTC issued revised guidance to help firms comply with its Red Flags Rule, which requires covered firms to monitor for and respond to certain “red flag” warnings of customer identify...