Tag: Bureau of Competition

I. INTRODUCTION Good evening. I'm very pleased to have this opportunity to speak to your annual conference about some current international antitrust topics, including the relationship between United...

Against the backdrop of a "remarkable" merger wave in the United States, Federal Trade Commission Chairman Robert Pitofsky today offered a group of business executives his analysis of two recent high...

At the end of June, a federal district court in Washington, D.C. granted the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC's) request for a preliminary injunction blocking the Staples-Office Depot merger. (2) The...

I. INTRODUCTION I am pleased to be back at another of these excellent BDA antitrust conferences and to speak to you about some current international antitrust topics. Last year I discussed some key...

Note: This speech has been revised and is published in the Antitrust Law Journal, vol. 65, Winter 1997, pp. 353-374. My subject today is a decision that has not yet been written by the Supreme Court...

I am pleased to be here at the 20th Annual International Business Law Institute on the Practice of International Business Transactions, and I very much appreciate the opportunity to speak to you about...

Introduction Good morning. This year's Spring Meeting occurs on the eve of the anniversary of Bob Pitofsky's arrival at the Commission as its Chair and my appointment shortly thereafter as Director of...

Note: this speech has been revised and is published as "Identifying Horizontal Price Fixing in the Electronic Marketplace", Antitrust Law Journal, vol. 65, Fall 1996, pp. 41-55. My contribution to...