James W. Lowe - Washington, DC

• Partner

• 1994

• Antitrust and Competition
• Aviation
• International Regulation
• Telecommunications
• Antitrust Litigation
• Regulatory and Government Affairs

• District of Columbia
• New York

• The Hon. Peter K. Leisure, US District Court for the Southern District of New York, Clerk, 1989 - 1990

• Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1989
  J.D.
  Honors: magna cum laude
  Law Journal: Harvard Journal on Legislation, Managing Editor
• Yale University, 1985
  B.A.
  Honors: summa cum laude

• Basic HSR Threshold Raised to $68.2 Million, 2012
• Significant Changes Expected for Brazilian Merger Control System, 2011
• FTC and DOJ Issue New Premerger (HSR) Notification Form, 2011
• FTC Imposes Substantial Fine for Decree Violation, 2011
• Basic HSR Threshold Raised to $66 Million, 2011
• FTC Releases Revised Horizontal Merger Guidelines for Public Comment, 2010
• DOJ Seeks Unprecedented Disgorgement Remedy in a Civil Antitrust Case, 2010
• DOJ Challenges Merging Parties' Pre-Closing Review of Contracts: Scope of Ordinary Course Provision Restricted in Transactions Subject to Hart-Scott-Rodino Act, 2010
• HSR Filing Thresholds Decrease for First Time: Basic HSR Threshold Lowered to $63.4 Million, 2010
• FTC and Antitrust Division Announce Workshops and Solicitation of Public Comment Regarding Possible Revision of Horizontal Merger Guidelines, 2009
• Christine Varney's First Speech as Assistant Attorney General: Justice Department Disavows Section 2 Report, 2009
• Meet the New US Antitrust Leadership, 2009
• Whither US Antitrust?, 2009
• Coca-Cola/Huiyuan: China Prohibits Its First Merger Under the AML, 2009
• Fines for HSR Violations Increase; Basic HSR Threshold Raised, 2009
• Law 360: Review and Challenge of Unreported Deals, 2009, 2009
• Antitrust Agencies Challenge Two Closed Acquisitions, 2008
• FTC v. Whole Foods: FTC Scores Premium Victory in D.C. Circuit, 2008
• Clayton Act Threshold Changes: Basic HSR Threshold Raised to $63.1 Million, 2008
• Investment Fund Penalized $1.1 Million for Late HSR Notifications, 2007
• HSR Developments -- $550,000 Fine for Failure to Produce 4(c) Documents, 2007
• Decisions, decisions, 2006
• Two Antitrust Opinions in the Same Week: Supreme Court Unanimously Clarifies Joint Venture Law and Strikes Down Patent Market Power Presumption in Tying Cases, 2006
• FTC Announces New Guidelines for Second Requests, 2006
• Antitrust and Competition Law Update, 2005
• ANTITRUST AND COMPETITION LAW UPDATE: Agencies Send a Strong Message on HSR Filing Requirements to Bill Gates and Others, 2004
• ANTITRUST AND COMPETITION LAW UPDATE: The Summary Judgment Standard and Pleading Requirements for Conspiracy Claims Relying on the Doctrine of Conscious Parallelism, 2003
• ANTITRUST AND COMPETITION LAW UPDATE: New Department of Justice Actions on Gun-Jumping and Market Allocation Provide Guidance, Warnings, 2003
• ANTITRUST AND COMPETITION LAW UPDATE: FTC Bureau of Competition Implements New Guidelines for Merger Investigations, 2002
• Modernisation at the Silver Anniversary of the HSR Act, 2002
• U.S. tightens Net on Merger Reporting, 2001
• The Merger Review Process at the FTC: Administrative Efficiency and the Rule of Law, 1997

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