Author: 21st Century Competition

Associations: CSAE Workshop: “Competition Law: Codes of Ethics, Surveys and Recent Developments for Associations” (Canadian Competition and Regulatory Law)

August 9, 2014

I am pleased to be a guest speaker at the Canadian Society of Association Executives’ (CSAE) National Conference 2014 in Niagara Falls this fall (October 29-31). I will be co-presenting with Mark Katz of Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg, the co-author of our competition …read more

Can Bundled Discounts Be Illegal If Offered By a Firm Without Market Power? (Kluwer Antitrust Connect Blog)

Schiff Hardin LLP

Bundled discounts are common marketing schemes that normally benefit consumers and competition; however, courts and commentators have found certain circumstances when they might be illegal monopolization. The line between hard competition and exclusionary conduct has confounded antitrust counselors and their pricing …read more

Petition to Repeal CASL (Canadian Spam Law) (Canadian Competition and Regulatory Law)

August 7, 2014

As most, though not all, Canadians now know (and some Americans and international marketers and companies know) Canada introduced federal anti-spam legislation on July 1, 2014. As has now been widely written and commented upon both in the four years in the run-up to the coming into force …read more

US: DOJ approves $6B gas tie-up (Competition Policy International)

Kodiak Oil & Gas announced Thursday that it has received early termination of the Department of Justice’s review of the company’s proposed merger with Whiting Petroleum, say reports.

Whiting will acquire Kodiak for $6 billion, a transaction first announced last month The companies said they expect to finalize the deal by …read more