UK regulators would likely have to fight to win jurisdiction over the $100 billion merger review of pharmaceutical giants Pfizer and AstraZeneca, according to competition experts.
The deal is so large, according to reports, that the European Commission would likely intervene if the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority tried to take …read more
More than 100 companies, including Facebook, Google and Amazon, have reportedly sent a letter to the Federal Communications Commission warning the regulator against its proposed rules regarding net neutrality, to be revealed next week.
After earlier proposals to protect the open Internet were struck down, the FCC is reportedly planning on …read more
The issues in antitrust law have long had a timeless quality. Although the legal doctrine and the economic theory underlying them have changed over time, the fundamental issues of cartels, vertical exclusion, market definition, oligopoly pricing, and monopolization that were the focus of antitrust policy when the Federal Trade Commissions …read more
In this article, I focus my remarks on the FTC’s work on data security and consumer privacy, and especially the privacy of information collected from consumers via the internet. I will not focus on the FTC’s important work in other aspects of consumer protection and competition.
Although vital work on privacy …read more