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How the 2007 Amendment to the M&A Guideline Has Changed Merger Control Policy in Japan
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Akira Inoue of Baker & McKenzie describes How the 2007 Amendment to the M&A Guideline Has Changed Merger Control Policy in Japan. On March 27, 2007, the Japan Fair Trade Commission released its amended Guideline...

Why the proposed 1.10 revisions give me pause . . .
I'm on the fence regarding the proposed revisions to Rule 1.10, and at the ABA's mid-year meeting I heard both Larry Fox (opposing the revisions) and Bob Mundheim (supporting the revisions) make their respective cases persuasively...

Merger Guidelines Reading
Volume 16, Issue 4 of the George Mason Law Review (which I received in my mailbox today) has a well timed issue from its antitrust symposium featuring several articles on revisions to the Merger Guidelines...

1992 Merger Guidelines to be Revised (and Market Definition Here to Stay)
Today at the Georgetown Law Global Antitrust Enforcement Symposium, the Chair of the Federal Trade Commission, Jon Leibowitz, announced that DOJ’s Antitrust Division and the FTC will undertake a revision of the 1992 Merger Guidelines....

SEC Proposes Revisions to Cross-Border Transaction Exemptions
Together with Adam O. Emmerich, David A. Katz, James Cole, Jr. and Sabastian V. Niles, I have recently distributed a memorandum entitled Cross-Border M&A - SEC Proposes Revisions to Cross-Border Transaction Exemptions, which discusses proposed revisions by the SEC to the current regulatory regime for cross-border transactions...

EDNY Judge Weinstein Rejects Strict Liability Guideline Enhancement in Gun Possession Case Predicated on Guideline Commentary
The devil is in the details, and, when it comes to the Sentencing Guidelines, that often means in the guideline commentary.  In an important and lengthy new opinion, United States v...

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