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May 31, 2024 · Antitrust laws are regulations that limit the market power of any particular firm and promote competition. Learn about the key federal antitrust laws, their enforcement agencies, and a major example of a recent lawsuit against Google.
In the United States and Canada, and to a lesser extent in the European Union, the modern law governing monopolies and economic competition is still known by its original name, "antitrust law". In most other countries, however, it is now called "competition law" or "anti-monopoly law".
It is also known as antitrust law (or just antitrust), anti-monopoly law, and trade practices law; the act of pushing for antitrust measures or attacking monopolistic companies (known as trusts) is commonly known as trust busting. The history of competition law reaches back to the Roman Empire.
May 2, 2022 · Learn what antitrust laws are, why they are important, and how they protect consumers from predatory business practices. Find out the types of illegal activities, such as market allocation, bid rigging, price fixing, and monopolies, that antitrust laws prohibit.
Learn about the three core federal antitrust laws: the Sherman Act, the FTC Act, and the Clayton Act. These laws prohibit unlawful mergers and business practices that harm competition and consumers.
whether antitrust should promote “noneconomic” objectives like personal liberty, protecting small entrepreneurs, or preserving the integrity of the political process.
Our Competition & Antitrust Practice regularly provides cross-border antitrust advice and has represented clients in anti-competitive agreement and abuse of dominant position investigations by the Malaysia Competition Commission.
