Antitrust Bulletin articles from December 1991

Antitrust Bulletin archives from December 1991

Proposals for a new Canadian competition law on conspiracy. (A Symposium on Current Antitrust Policy and Enforcement, part 2)
December 22, 1991... I. Introduction Recent challenges to the constituionality of the conspiracy section of Canada's Competition Act (1) have raised the possibility of amending the oldest provisions in Canada's antitrust arsenal. While some proposals for...

Canada's new merger enforcement guidelines: a "nuts and bolts" review. (A Symposium on Current Antitrust Policy and Enforcement, part 2)
December 22, 1991... Introduction On April 17, 1991, after close to 5 years' experience with Canada's amended merger law, and after substantial public consultation, the Director of Investigation and Research under the Competition Act released Canada's first...

International Mergers: The Antitrust Process.
December 22, 1991... Like many lawyers who do merger work, I have accumulated a series of loose-leaf binders in my office that house the various statutes of countries that have premerger notification programs, together with copies of their forms, organizational...

Dangerous Pursuits: Mergers and Acquisitions in the Age of Wall Street.
December 22, 1991... In Dangerous Pursuits our brave authors dared to descend the academy's high tower to search the decade of the eighties for capitalism only to find its remains. Remarkably, they detected faint life--amid the ruin and rubble of merger battles,...

Efficiency considerations and horizontal restraints. (Federal Trade Commission rulings on cases involving restraint of competition) (A Symposium on Current Antitrust Policy and Enforcement, part 2)
December 22, 1991... A concern with efficiency is at the core of contemporary antitrust analysis of horizontal restraints. This article discusses how efficiency considerations are analyzed by the Federal Trade Commission: what is a cognizable efficiency; what...

Per se rules in the antitrust analysis of horizontal restraint. (rules governing inherently illegal circumstances) (A Symposium on Current Antitrust Policy and Enforcement, part 2)
December 22, 1991... Restrictions among competitors, or horizontal restrains, raise the specter of the very trusts that the antitrust laws were enacted to prevent. They call forth an image of collusion among rivals to restrict output and raise price, still the...

Market imperfections and overenforcement in Hart-Scott-Rodino second request negotiations. (A Symposium on Current Antitrust Policy and Enforcement, part 2)
December 22, 1991... The premerger notification provisions of section 201 of the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 (1) empower the Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice to issue Requests for Additional Information and...

Confronting the brave new world of antitrust federalism. (A Symposium on Current Antitrust Policy and Enforcement, part 2)
December 22, 1991... Introduction Two recent Supreme Court decisions have vitalized the emergence of states as forces to be reckoned with in the arena of national merger policy. In California v. American Stores, (1) the Court held that states may secure...

The mission and agenda for state antitrust enforcement. (24th Annual New England Antitrust Conference address) (A Symposium on Current Antitrust Policy and Enforcement, part 2) (Transcript)
December 22, 1991... The New England Antitrust Conference, now in its 24th year, has traditionally been addressed by the Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Antitrust Division of the United States...