September 17, 2012
A news search for Janssen Pharmaceuticals will turn up research and marketing agreements with many top-notch biomedical and pharmaceutical firms and Harvard University, but attorneys general in 36 states are celebrating a different sort of deal. In late August they reported a $181 settlement with Janssen, the largest multistate consumer protection settlement to date with a pharmaceutical company.
September 17, 2012
The Canadian Competition Bureau has concurred in the analysis and remedies already proposed for the pending acquisition of Goodrich by United Technologies. Although recognizing that reduced...
September 17, 2012
Sixteen months after CoStar Group and LoopNet, Inc. signed an agreement to merge, more than a year since shareholders gave approval and four months since the $860 million merger closed, the FTC...
September 17, 2012
Even as New York federal district court judge Denise Cote recently put her stamp of approval on a settlement between the Justice Department and three book publishers—Hachette, HarperCollins, and...
September 17, 2012
Travelers landing in Washington, D.C. or other large cities and looking for a rental car usually find themselves with a lineup of alternatives—Hertz, Alamo, Avis, etc. –once they pick up their...
September 17, 2012
Speaking to an audience of health care providers in early August, FTC Commissioner Julie Brill focused her comments on initiatives that sustain health care competition. She noted recent progress...
September 17, 2012
In a speech in Paris at the Forum for EU-US Legal-Economic Affairs, Federal Trade Commissioner J. Thomas Rosch noted that the Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission have...
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