Antitrust & Competition
More Antitrust & Competition Articles
Antitrust & Competition
Antitrust Considerations Affecting M&A
Editor: Please tell us about your background and experience. Hewitt: I developed an interest in antitrust in college as an economics major. After graduating from law school, I clerked for a year and then went to the Federal Trade Commission. I left the FTC in 1978 to go to Akin Gump, where I...
Read MoreAntitrust & Competition
Getting Public M&A Deals Done Today: Litigation And Its Effects
Editor: There has been a lot of focus recently on the prevalence of litigation around public M&A transactions. Can you give us your views on why there has been an increase in this type of litigation? Myers: The lawsuits challenging M&A transactions are coming from several sources. As...
Read MoreAntitrust & Competition
Important Changes To UK Competition Law Regime
On May 2, 2013, the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (the Act) was published after receiving Royal Assent on April 25, 2013. The Act amends the Competition Act 1998 and the Enterprise Act 2002 to introduce a number of important changes to the competition law regime in the United Kingdom...
Read More