Corporate & Securities Law

The Antitrust Source on the Horizontal Merger Guidelines
The new edition of The Antitrust Source is out and it focuses on the new horizontal merger guidelines. The articles are: The Revised Horizontal Merger Guidelines: Can the Courts Be Persuaded? By Leah Brannon and Kathleen Bradish Will the New Guidelines Clarify or Obscure Antitrust Policy? By Dennis W...

WAPO Concludes that Vertical Efficiencies Trump Horizontal Market Power
A Washington Post editorial last week reached the surprising conclusion that a series of vertical and horizontal acquisitions that led to a firm owning about 40% of the gas stations in the District of Columbia was procompetitive...

Whole Foods reaches settlement with FTC over Wild Oats merger
[JURIST] Organic grocer Whole Foods Market agreed to a settlement with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Friday over its 2007 merger with rival grocer Wild Oats Market. If approved by the FTC Commissioners, the settlement will require Whole Foods to divest itself of approximately 32 store locations, including 13 operating stores and 19 closed locations, as well as all Wild Oats intellectual property, including the Wild Oats brand name and trademarks...

DOJ News Release on Revised Horizontal Mergers Guidelines
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AT THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, 2010 (202) 514-2007 WWW.JUSTICE.GOV TDD (202) 514-1888 DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE AND FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION ISSUE REVISED HORIZONTAL MERGER GUIDELINES 2010 Guidelines More Accurately Represent Agencies? Merger Review Process WASHINGTON ? The Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued today revised Horizontal Merger [...

Horizontal Merger Guidelines Workshops
The FTC is hosting a series of workshops on horizontal merger guidelines as part of its process of rethinking such guidelines. The first of the five workshops is today in DC. You can catch the webcast here...

Market Definition and the Merger Guidelines, Again
Do the 2010 Horizontal Merger Guidelines require market definition?  Will the agencies define markets in cases they bring?  Are they required to do so by the Guidelines?  By the Clayton Act? Here is Commissioner Rosch in the FTC Annual Report (p...

Merger Agreement Rejected
Finish Line and Genesco reach $175 million settlement in merger dispute.

Duragesic Pain Patch
alleging harm from defective pain patches.

Whole Foods Market Recalls Bulk Hazelnuts
Whole Foods Market Recalls Bulk Hazelnuts

Non-Fat Dry Milk
Recalled by CPI Foods for Possible Salmonella Contamination

Whole Foods
And Other Firms Sued by California Attorney General,

Bay Valley Foods
Kroger Chicken Soup Recall