Antitrust and Trade Regulation Articles
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July 24, 2009
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The Feesers case arose in the food-service management and distributorship industry. Feesers, is a traditional “middle man” distributor that purchases food products from producers and resells them to institutional end users, which prepare their own food on site for large numbers of people.
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Summer 2009
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The high level of interchange fees and the means by which banks set these fees have been two of the primary competition issues causing concern for regulatory authorities in Mexico over the past few years.
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Summer 2009
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While only a few countries like Australia and Europe have begun regulating interchange fees, others, like South Africa, are exploring the possibility of regulating interchange in their respective countries.
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Summer 2009
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The Australian government’s regulation of payment cards has attracted global attention as an example of extensive credit card reform and as a rare source of empirical evidence of the impact of reducing interchange fees and removing certain
merchant restrictions.
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Summer 2009
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Over the past 12 years, the European Commission has targeted
Visa and MasterCard’s Multilateral Interchange
Fees (“MIFs”), which are default fees the networks assess on
cross-border transactions.
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May 2009
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Antitrust Law Fundamentals
Minnesota State Bar Association
Continuing Legal Education
Joint ventures include a vast array of business combinations, from newly consolidated entities, to strategic contractual alliances, to models incorporating both integration and networking in innovative and complex ways. This article outlines the basic principles of the antitrust analysis of joint ventures.
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March 2, 2009
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President Obama's pick to head the FTC, Jon Leibowitz, seeks to eliminate pay-for-delay deals using a two-pronged strategy involving federal litigation and legislative reforms.
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December 17, 2008
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On December 10, 2008, the Minnesota State Bar Association (MSBA) invited FTC Assistant Director of Policy and Coordination Suzanne Michel to speak about hot topics in intellectual property and antitrust law.
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October 2, 2008
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Law360
The notorious decision earlier this year sanctioning Qualcomm Inc. and several of its attorneys for discovery misconduct points to the need for a more cooperative, less adversarial approach to e-discovery, experts say.
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November 2, 2007
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Competition Law360
U.S. enforcement agencies should rely more heavily on private litigation to complement their efforts, says Robins Kaplan's K. Craig Wildfang in our series of chats with high profile antitrust lawyers.
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