United States : The Assistant Attorney General Christine Varney resignes, giving the occasion to assess the Obama Administration Antitrust Record at midterm

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. Christine Varney, Assistant Attorney General of the United States, Head of the Antitrust Division at the US Department of Justice, resigned from her position at the end of July 2011 to join the prestigious and very former New York law firm Cravath, Swaine and Moore, a few days after the signing of a cooperation agreement on competition matters between China and the United States (see above commentary by F. Souty and S. Yon). Christine Varney took stock of her experience and cautiously outlined the Democrats' perspectives on antitrust in a final speech in her capacity as head of the Antitrust Division to the Center for American Progress in July 2011 (see