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The proposed AT&T acquisition of T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom: initial thoughts

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

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Google: antitrust issues, more antitrust issues and … uh … even more antitrust issues

8 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

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The United Airlines/Continental Airlines merger: a short or long document review?

  3 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

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DOJ Unit That Prosecutes FCPA to Bulk Up “Substantially”

  As 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,

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From the Georgetown Law Advanced E-Discovery Institute: E-Discovery in Federal Investigations

   15 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

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ACC Boston: notes on some of the substantive presentations (Part 2)

The 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

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DOJ, FTC to Explore Amending Merger Guidelines

                                        23 September 2009 The Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission announced on Tuesday that they will explore updating

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DOJ’s antitrust investigation of credit derivatives could have wide ranging effects

A 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

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Microsoft Offers Browser Deal to EU Regulators

July 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

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Credit derivatives probe: new aggressiveness at the DOJ

                 The DOJ confirmed yesterday that its Antitrust Division is investigating possible anti-competitive practices involving credit derivatives.  The statement read:  “The

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