An accounting firm agreed to pay nearly $150 million to the U.S. government to settle potential liability related to the audits of a failed mortgage lender.
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The world's second largest aerospace company agreed to settle charges brought by regulators in the U.S., the UK and France stemming from a global foreign bribery scheme and arms control violations.
Antitrust Division Assistant Attorney General Michael Kades examined the legal concept of "refusal to deal" in digital markets arguing that defining the principle too broadly would "create a loophole allowing anticompetitive conduct" that would "increase prices and reduce innovation."
U.S. Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division Jonathan Kanter questioned whether the 1995 bank merger guidelines are "adequate to measure and assess the many different dimensions of competition that exist today," in light of "an industry that has experienced some recent turmoil."
Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim described the DOJ Antitrust Division's "New Madison" approach towards the licensing of Standards Essential Patents.