Ian John’s practice focuses on advising clients and representing them before the antitrust enforcement authorities on matters relating to mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures, including complex cross-border transactions. He has represented clients from a diverse range of industries, including aerospace, beef processing, building material, chemicals, computer hardware and software, defense, fertilizer, financial products, insurance, media and telecommunications, managed care, medical products, natural gas exploration, production and transportation, pharmaceuticals, precious metals mining, satellites, semiconductors, student transportation and various consumer goods.
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On November 7, 2014, the U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division (“DOJ”) announced that it had entered into a settlement with Flakeboard and SierraPine resolving allegations that the two parties had engaged in illegal premerger coordination in connection with their now-abandoned (...)
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On April 8, 2013, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a proposed settlement with hair restoration company Bosley, Inc. to resolve allegations that Bosley illegally exchanged competitively sensitive, nonpublic business information with competitor HC (USA), Inc., commonly known as Hair (...)
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On November 15, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a proposed consent agreement to address the agency’s allegations that the $3.1 billion acquisition of Psychiatric Solutions, Inc. by Universal Health Services, Inc. (UHS) would reduce competition in the provision of acute inpatient (...)
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This article has been nominated by the Business Steering Committee for the business category, mergers section of the 2012 Antitrust Writing Awards. Click here to learn more about the Antitrust Writing Awards. On October 31, 2011, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia is sued (...)
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In a decision broadly critical of the Federal Trade Commission’s case challenging the acquisition of Westcliff Medical Laboratories, Inc., a medical laboratory company, by Laboratory Corporation of America (LabCorp), Judge Andrew Guilford of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of (...)
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On November 29, 2010, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced a consent agreement with GrafTech International relating to its acquisition of Seadrift Coke L.P. (Seadrift). This action marks the second time this year that the DOJ has sought relief in a vertical merger. It also represents the (...)
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As the credit and capital markets continue to revive, companies around the world considering a return to greater mergers and acquisitions activity may be right to wonder whether recent antitrust law developments should deter those considerations. Notwithstanding the attention the various new (...)
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On April 20, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released and sought public comment on proposed, revised Horizontal Merger Guidelines (guidelines) that reflect how the agencies evaluate the potential competitive effects of mergers and acquisitions between firms at (...)
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On January 21, 2010, after a three-year and four-month investigation, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced a $900,000 settlement with meat processors Smithfield Foods Inc. and Premium Farms LLC to resolve DOJ allegations that Smithfield exercised operational control over Premium (...)
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