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Collusion

United States

• Sherman Antitrust Act
• Clayton Antitrust Act
• Robinson-Patman Act
• Federal Trade Commission Act
• Merger guidelines
• Essential facilities doctrine
• Noerr-Pennington doctrine
• Rule of reason

Europe

• European Community
  competition law
• Irish Competition Law
• Competition Act 1998 (U.K.)

Australia

• Trade Practices Act 1974

Enforcement authorities and organizations

• International Competition Network
• List of competition regulators

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Collusion is an agreement, usually secretive, which occurs between two or more persons to deceive, mislead, or defraud others of legal rights, or to obtain an objective forbidden by law typically involving fraud or gaining an unfair advantage and can involve "wage fixing, kickbacks, or misrepresenting the independence of the relationship between the colluding parties."[1] All acts affected by collusion are considered void.[2]

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