Jenna Greene

September 05, 2000 | Law.com

After years of record-breaking merger activity, the deluge of deals is wearing on the Federal Trade Commission. Bogged down with reviewing seemingly endless corporate unions, FTC lawyers have been hard pressed to prosecute antitrust violations, such as price fixing and abuse of monopoly power. Now, FTC attorneys fear that counsel are urging clients to use this institutional weakness to their advantage.

By Jenna Greene

10 minute read

June 05, 2001 | Law.com

It has been quite a ride for Robert Pitofsky, the 71-year-old chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, who stepped down after six years at the agency's helm. He leaves behind a legacy of sometimes risky but almost always successful antitrust enforcement, combined with a major expansion of the agency's consumer protection jurisdiction into cyberspace.

By Jenna Greene

11 minute read

September 13, 2001 | Law.com

Jane Mago's career is a road map to advancing through the Federal Communications Commission ranks, from lowly staff attorney in the Common Carrier Bureau to general counsel. As GC, she's handling litigation over open access issues, the Satellite Home Viewers Improvement Act, and FCC ownership rules, including newspaper cross-ownership and cable horizontal ownership.

By Jenna Greene

5 minute read

October 30, 2009 | Law.com

The Federal Trade Commission cleared the way Thursday for Schering-Plough's $41.1 billion acquisition of Merck & Co., but required both companies to make significant divestures. Under the terms of the FTC's consent order, Merck must sell its interest in Merial Limited, an animal health joint venture with Sanofi-Aventis, and Schering-Plough must sell its assets related to drugs that treat nausea and vomiting in humans.

By Jenna Greene

2 minute read

October 08, 2001 | Law.com

The International Trade Commission last week finished eight days of hearings on whether to erect trade barriers to protect domestic steel. Held at the request of President Bush, the hearings are something of an anomaly for the ostensibly free-trade administration. But in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, the political dynamics of steel protectionism have undergone a fundamental shift.

By Jenna Greene

10 minute read

November 11, 2010 | Law.com

The business community is watching a potentially precedent-setting case that could sharply curtail the period of time that companies can be cited for OSHA reporting violations.

By Jenna Greene

3 minute read

October 13, 2010 | Law.com

In one of the U.S. government's biggest legal services contracts ever, the Treasury Department has hired 13 law firms to help run the Troubled Assets Relief Program at a cost to taxpayers of up to $100 million. But the agency has been faulted for excessive secrecy concerning outside counsel.

By Jenna Greene

7 minute read

March 31, 2009 | Law.com

Nobody expected the proposed $565 million acquisition of natural foods grocer Wild Oats by its rival Whole Foods Market to spark a food fight of epic proportions. But on March 6 -- after two years, $28 million in legal fees and expenses, and dozens of lawyers -- Whole Foods cut a deal to end the battle. The most important result of the battle may be a controversial D.C. Circuit opinion that some fear will make it too easy for the FTC to block future mergers.

By Jenna Greene

24 minute read

April 06, 2009 | Texas Lawyer

As corporate mergers go, the purchase of natural foods grocer Wild Oats by its rival Whole Foods Market looked like small potatoes (organic yellow fingerling, perhaps). Nobody expected the proposed $565 million acquisition to spark a food fight of epic proportions.

By Jenna Greene

24 minute read