Elai Katz

April 21, 2011 | New York Law Journal

In his Antitrust column, Elai Katz, a partner at Cahill Gordon & Reindel, comments on recent FTC developments, the rejection of the Google Books settlement, and the approval, with conditions, of Google's acquisition of a travel software firm, as well as a district court's grant of the FTC's request to preliminarily enjoin a hospital merger.

By Elai Katz

11 minute read

May 20, 2010 | New York Law Journal

In his antitrust column, Elai Katz, a partner at Cahill Gordon & Reindel, discusses recent developments, including the circulation of revised merger guidelines, two decisions addressing market definition in merger cases and a Ninth Circuit holding that a product design improvement by a dominant firm, without more, did not constitute unlawful monopolization.

By Elai Katz

11 minute read

March 18, 2010 | New York Law Journal

Elai Katz, a partner at Cahill Gordon & Reindel, reviews developments of interest, including the DOJ's enforcement action against a New York City electricity supplier for entering into a financial derivative contract alleged to have the effect of acquiring its principal rival's electricity generation capacity, a determination that the combination of the second and third largest Internet search engines could create a viable competitive alternative to the leading search engine and was not likely to reduce competition, and more.

By Elai Katz

10 minute read

July 29, 2011 | New York Law Journal

In his Antitrust column, Cahill Gordon & Reindel partner Elai Katz reviews a Ninth Circuit decision that that consumers challenging the sale of cable and satellite television channels in bundled, multi-channel packages rather than individually did not state an antitrust claim, a Third Circuit ruling that a hospital could not bring tying claims against a drug-maker because the hospital bought the pharmaceuticals from an independent wholesaler, and more.

By Elai Katz

10 minute read

April 25, 2007 | New York Law Journal

William T. Lifland, senior counsel at Cahill Gordon & Reindel, and Elai Katz, a partner at the firm, review the temporary restraining order preventing the combination of energy distributors in New Mexico, a district court's ruling that the DOJ's settlements of its challenges to two mergers involving telecommunications firms were in the public interest, the release of a report on modernization of antitrust laws and a dismissal of monopolization claims against an Internet search engine.

By William T. Lifland and Elai Katz

8 minute read

November 24, 2010 | New York Law Journal

In his Antitrust column, Elai Katz, a partner at Cahill Gordon & Reindel, reviews recent developments, including a rejected challenge to the acquisition of a newly developed drug by a company that owned a well-established drug used to treat the same condition because the court found that the two drugs were not in the same relevant market.

By Elai Katz

11 minute read

January 21, 2010 | New York Law Journal

Elai Katz, a partner of Cahill Gordon & Reindel, discusses recent developments of interest, including a Second Circuit ruling that claims of price fixing by music companies should not have been dismissed and that courts should look to the context surrounding parallel conduct when determining the sufficiency and plausibility of complaints alleging agreements in restraint of trade, a Sixth Circuit dismissal of a racetrack's monopolization claims against NASCAR because the plaintiff's economist failed to show that premium stock car racing constituted its own relevant market, an Eighth Circuit holding that cardiologists complaining of exclusion from a health insurance network could not limit the relevant market definition to patients who had private insurance plans, and more.

By Elai Katz

11 minute read

May 28, 2009 | New York Law Journal

Elai Katz, a partner of Cahill Gordon & Reindel, reviews recent developments of interest, including a ruling from the European Commission that Intel violated competition law by providing discounts to computer manufacturers on the condition that they buy all or almost all their needs from Intel, the DOJ's withdrawal of a controversial report on monopolization issued toward the end of the previous administration, a decision by a district court applying the Supreme Court's ruling that resale price maintenance arrangements must be judged under the rule of reason and new legislation in Maryland providing that resale price maintenance is unlawful per se under the state's antitrust law.

By Elai Katz

10 minute read

May 24, 2007 | New York Law Journal

William T. Lifland, senior counsel at Cahill Gorden & Reindel, and Elai Katz, a partner at the firm, write that a district court has rejected the Federal Trade Commission's motion to halt the combination of natural gas distributors in Pennsylvania that had been approved by the state public utility commission. Also, the European Commission has approved the acquisition of an aircraft engine component supplier by a "dominant" aircraft engine manufacturer.

By William T. Lifland and Elai Katz

9 minute read

June 28, 2007 | New York Law Journal

William T. Lifland, senior counsel at Cahill Gordon & Reindel, and Elai Katz, a partner at the firm, review recent developments of interest, including the Supreme Court's holding that securities law implicitly precluded antitrust claims against underwriters of IPOs of high-tech stocks, a district court's denial of an FTC motion to preliminarily enjoin the merger of bulk gasoline suppliers and a complaint filed by the DOJ seeking to undo the combination of the only two newspapers in Charleston, W.Va.

By William T. Lifland and Elai Katz

8 minute read