Tag: Collusion
Las Vegas Hotels Face Antitrust Suit Over Price Collusion
MGM Resorts, Caesars, Treasure Island, and Wynn Resorts are facing federal antitrust litigation over claims they conspired to jack up room rates at the...
Developments in Cartel Screening
By Despina Pachnou & Daniel Westrik1
Interest in Cartel Screens Is Increasing
Hard core cartels are a pervasive white-collar crime. Between 1990 and 2016, international cartels...
Competition Law and Cross-Board Membership: Should Directors Sit on Their Competitors’...
By Thula Kaira1
Introduction
The purpose of competition law is aimed at ensuring that enterprises effect their market-based decisions in an independent manner (i.e., without...
Indian Watchdog Raids Several Steel Firms Over Collusion
India's antitrust watchdog is raiding offices of small-scale steel companies for alleged price collusion of steel products used in construction, two sources with direct knowledge...
Executives Indicted, But Will the Companies Follow? The Increasingly Aggressive Focus...
By Lisa M. Phelan, Joseph Charles Folio III, & Samuel Pollock-Bernard*
In 2020, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division indicted 10 corporate executives in...
The Criminal Prosecution of Hardcore Cartels in the USA and the...
By Raphael Reims1
The criminal prosecution of hardcore cartels, i.e. the fixing of prices, imposition of output restrictions or the allocation of sales territories or...
Vertical Mergers and Coordinated Effects: Implications for Merger Policy
Vertical relationships can have coordinated effects with important implications for planned revisions of the U.S. Department of Justice merger guidelines. Despite increased efforts to...
When Climate Collaboration Is Treated as an Antitrust Violation
By: Matteo Gasparini, Knut Haanaes & Peter Tufano (Harvard Business Review)
What do Covid-19, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and the climate crisis have in...
When Climate Collaboration Is Treated As An Antitrust Violation
By Matteo Gasparini,Knut Haanaes, and Peter Tufano (Harvard Business Review)
What do Covid-19, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and the climate crisis have in common? All three...
South Korean Regulator Fines AstraZeneca and Local Firm for Collusion
On Thursday, October 13, the Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) announced that it had fined pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca and local generic pharmaceutical company Alvogen...
