Reported by: Gregory P. Bufithis, Esq. (with special thanks to Johann Jurgens who is a telecom analyst for a hedge fund and is an advisor to The Posse List on the telecom industry) 21 March 2011
Continue reading8 September 2010 — Being the 800-pound gorilla in the search-engine space … and seemingly everything else internet related … Google is probably at the top of the list of most government regulators
Continue reading3 May 2010 — United Air Lines and Continental Airlines announced their merger today. It will create the world’s largest airline by traffic. Delta Air Lines would be unseated as the
Continue readingAs reported today in Corporate Counsel magazine, anti-corruption enforcement is bulking up (click here for article). Mark Mendelsohn, deputy chief of the DOJ fraud section’s criminal division,
Continue reading15 November 2009 The presentation was made by David Shonka (Principal Deputy General Counsel of the Federal Trade Commission), Miriam Smolen (associate general counsel in Fannie Mae’s litigation
Continue readingThe recap of the first four of the six formal presentations we covered you can find by clicking here. In this Part 2 we cover: the personal liabilty of a general counsel; DOJ/SEC enforcement
Continue reading23 September 2009 The Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission announced on Tuesday that they will explore updating
Continue readingA few weeks ago we posted the news that the DOJ had launched an antitrust investigation into how dealers provide credit derivatives prices (see our previous post by clicking here). Two recent articles
Continue readingJuly 27, 2009 Microsoft said on said Friday it will offer European consumers a choice of Web browsers with Windows in an effort to settle an antitrust probe by the European Union. The software giant has
Continue readingThe DOJ confirmed yesterday that its Antitrust Division is investigating possible anti-competitive practices involving credit derivatives. The statement read: “The
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