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The Department of Justice (DOJ) retained Michael Whinston in United States v. Google LLC, a civil antitrust suit against Google alleging that Google violated Section 2 of the Sherman Act by foreclosing competition for internet search. The DOJ ...
Thoma Bravo, a private equity firm, sought to acquire ForgeRock, an identity and access management software company, for $2.3 billion. Thoma Bravo already owned Ping, another software company operating in this space. Identity and access ...
In the case In re Capacitors Antitrust Litigation, plaintiff Avnet alleged that numerous companies conspired to control and set prices of electrolytic capacitors sold to US companies for at least 12 years. Capacitors are fundamental in the ...
Kevin Pflum was retained by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to provide expert testimony on the likely competitive effects of HCA Healthcare’s proposed acquisition of Steward Health Care’s five Utah hospitals. The FTC authorized an ...
On behalf of federal plaintiffs in the California Gasoline Spot Market Antitrust Litigation, Anna Meyendorff submitted a class certification report, with the class defined as "all persons or entities that purchased retail gasoline for their ...
Transdev North America Inc. announced in 2022 that it would acquire First Transit Topco Inc. Transdev operates in 19 countries, providing public transportation services through fixed-route bus systems; shuttle, paratransit, rail, and ...
On behalf of Apple in Optis Cellular Technology LLC et al. v. Apple Retail UK Limited et al., in a dispute over key telecommunications patents used in Apple devices including iPhones and iPads, Joseph Farrell testified in a UK court and ...
In the Phonorecords IV rate-setting proceeding, Joseph Farrell submitted expert written testimony on behalf of Spotify USA Inc. and Leslie Marx submitted expert written testimony on behalf of Amazon, both regarding royalty payments under ...
Shaw Communications, Inc. retained Paul Johnson, a former Bates White Partner supported by firm economists, to analyze its potential $26 billion merger with Rogers Communications, Inc. Shaw and Rogers are two Canadian telecommunications ...
A federal court blocked Penguin Random House’s planned purchase of Simon & Schuster. Partner Nicholas Hill testified in the high-profile trial about the proposed $2.18 billion merger that the Los Angeles Times called “the biggest ...
On behalf of MGM Resorts International, Nicholas Hill and Slava Zayats provided an economic analysis of MGM’s acquisition of the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas. The deal closed in 2022 without conditions.
On behalf of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Bates White supported Academic Affiliate Robin Lee of Harvard University in analyzing the proposed $40 billion semiconductor chip merger between Nvidia Corporation and UK chip design provider ...