Jeff joined Linklaters in October 2008 after serving almost three years as Director of the Bureau of Competition of the Federal Trade Commission. As Director, he was responsible for the supervision of the FTC’s antitrust enforcement in all merger and non-merger cases. The 300-member Bureau of Competition conducts antitrust reviews of a wide range of industries, including oil and gas, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, food and beverage and consumer products. Prior to joining the FTC, Jeff was in private practice as a partner at Pillsbury Winthrop. His practice focused on merger matters, civil antitrust litigation and cartel enforcement proceedings. Jeff is an active member of the Antitrust Section of the American Bar Association and co-chair of its Economics Committee. He is a former chair of the State Action/Noerr-Pennington Committee and Editor of the ABA Antitrust Section’s monograph on the Noerr-Pennington doctrine.
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The US antitrust authorities recently took action against an executive for violation of the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act (the “HSR Act”) in connection with the acquisition of stock as part of his compensation, resulting in a $500,000 fine. The HSR Act requires acquirers of certain voting (...)
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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (the “FTC”) has issued final rules (the “Rules”) to amend the requirements of premerger notifications required under the Hart-Scott-Rodino (“HSR”) Act. The Rules, issued July 7, 2011, are described by the FTC as being intended to streamline the HSR filing (...)
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After years of debate, the Indian Government recently announced that the Competition Commission of India ("CCI") will be given powers to approve or prohibit certain mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures. The new powers take effect on 1 June 2011. This memorandum reflects the key (...)
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On 6 October, the European Court of Justice (‘ECJ’) issued another “score draw” judgment in the long-running battle of R&D-based pharmaceutical companies to limit parallel trade in medicines across the EU. While the ECJ required the European Commission to conduct an in-depth examination of (...)
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Could you briefly recall what are the major differences between the two US competition agencies - the Antitrust Division and the Federal Trade Commission ? How do the US and European approaches to competition enforcement differ and converge ? With emerging market countries instituting new (...)
