by 21st Century Competition | Jul 15, 2014 | Global Blogs
Liberty Global has reportedly offered concessions to the European Commission to secure approval to acquire Netherlands-based cable peer Ziggo. The Commission said Tuesday that Liberty Global offered the concessions Monday, but the authority did not reveal what the...
by 21st Century Competition | Jul 15, 2014 | Global Blogs
An antitrust lawyer who left Patton Boggs to join Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman has announced he is leaving Pillsbury Winthrop due to a possible conflict of interest stemming from his position at Patton Boggs. Reports say Benjamin Chew said he will leave the new...
by 21st Century Competition | Jul 15, 2014 | Global Blogs
Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis announced plans to launch a joint venture with Google to develop a high-tech contact lens that will monitor the glucose levels of diabetic patients that wear the technology. According to reports, Novartis’s Alcon eye care unit...
by 21st Century Competition | Jul 15, 2014 | Global Blogs
The Delaware Court of Chancery is arguably the most influential business court in the nation, according to reports, and hears more cases related to mergers and acquisitions lawsuits than any other. Now, Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster, who has spend nearly five years...
by 21st Century Competition | Jul 15, 2014 | Global Blogs
In the nineteenth century, John Stuart Mill stated that societies are economically successful when they have good economic institutions, and that it is these institutions that lead to prosperity. History has proved him right as both theory and the empirical evidence...
by 21st Century Competition | Jul 15, 2014 | Global Blogs
On July 7, 2014 the new Mexican Economic Competition Law came into force; this is legislation that replaces the antitrust law enacted in 1992 as one of the commitments made by the Mexican Government to sign the North America Free Trade Agreement with the United States...