This review of recent transactions handled by the CCI suggests that many of the early apprehensions about implementation of India’s merger control provisions were misplaced. R.Shyam Khemani (MiCRA), Cyril Shroff & Nisha Kaur Uberoi (Amarchand)

The FCC has come to play an increasingly problematicâ€â€and largely unstructuredâ€â€role in the government’s review of transactions in the communications industry. Larry Downes (Larry Downes Consulting Group) & Geoffrey A. Manne (International Center for Law &...

An unbounded Section 5 case will never be sustained by a reviewing court. Robert H. Lande & Jonathan L. Rubin

Research revealed problems with the assumptions that are made about the likely effects of criminalization on business behavior both as a deterrence mechanism and as a moral inducement. Caron Beaton-Wells (Univ. of Melbourne) & Christine Parker (Monash Univ.)

The issue of the relevance or not of the validity of Pfizer’s divisional patent remains, however, somewhat unanswered. Daniela Ampollini (Trevisan & Cuonzo)

These cases also reaffirm that deals of any size and scope, in any industry, are potentially open to intense and costly antitrust scrutiny and challenge in court. Daniel E. Hemli & Jacqueline R. Java (Bracewell & Giuliani LLP)

The increasing economic sophistication of the OFT's decisions masks some of the legal limitations of the OFT's role as a first phase regulator. Richard Blewett (Clifford Chance)

Screens can rationally determine critical points in a possible cartel, including the duration, breadth, and success of a conspiracy...Donald C. Klawiter (Sheppard Mullin)

As experience has proved, screens have flagged unusual patterns in a variety of countries and industries, and helped in the detection of cartels. Carlos Mena-Labarthe (Mexican Federal Competition Commission)

It is not an overstatement to say that the use of screens in the gas retail market was a success. Carlos Emmanuel Joppert Ragazzo (CADE, Brazil)