When a Merger Gets Unwound (Yes, Really)

A quiet acquisition, a late intervention, and one of the few times regulators successfully unraveled a completed merger.

What Courts Will Need to Decide

Adjudicating competition in platform-mediated markets

Lessons Across FAANG

What recent antitrust complaints suggest about competition in digital markets

Remedies Across Platforms

How competition concerns in digital markets might be addressed

Beyond Price: Competition in Platform Ecosystems

Competition Beyond Price in Platform Markets

Bundling the Ecosystem

How operating system integration may shape competition in software markets

Curating the Feed

How algorithmic ranking may shape competition on social media platforms

Ranking the Marketplace

How Amazon’s marketplace may shape competition by allocating demand

The DOJ’s Healthcare Playbook: Decoding the UnitedHealth/Amedisys Merger

How the DOJ used the 2023 Merger Guidelines to target stealth consolidation and labor monopsony in the largest outpatient healthcare divestiture in U.S. history.

Gatekeeping the Ecosystem

Platform governance and downstream competition in mobile software distribution

The Ticketmaster Case Reveals a Myth About Antitrust Power New post

States vs. Feds in Antitrust—What Ticketmaster Actually Shows

Defaults, Data, and Dominance

How Google’s distribution agreements may shape competition in search

Distribution as Discrimination

How the Loss of Direct-Store-Delivery May Weaken Grocery Competition in New York City

The Antitrust Case Against Ticketmaster

How the U.S. government’s lawsuit against Live Nation could reshape the concert industry.

The Invisible Toll Booth in Your Wallet

How the DOJ’s case against Visa Inc. could determine whether America’s payment system evolves through competition — or remains governed by an unseen tax on every transaction.

Steam Under Scrutiny: What the Valve Antitrust Case Means for Games, Developers, and Players

The Apple E-Books Case: How a Contract Changed an Entire Market

United States v. Lopez: The DOJ’s First Criminal Wage-Fixing Trial Victory

The End of “Take It or Leave It”: NASCAR, 23XI Racing, and the Antitrust Settlement That Could Reshape Sports Franchising

Why the FTC Is Challenging Henkel’s Liquid Nails Deal

Two Hypothetical Media Megadeals, Two Very Different Antitrust Nightmares

With lessons from past blocked and challenged mergers

Why the Penguin Random House–Simon & Schuster Merger Was Blocked

FTC v. Whole Foods Market, Inc. — Antitrust Analysis of the Wild Oats Merger

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