The Department of Justice (“DOJ”) closed its investigation of the acquisition of NWEA by Veritas Capital’s portfolio company, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (“HMH”), without issuing a second request. NWEA is a non-profit educational assessment company and HMH is an educational technology...

Two classes of putative consumers filed lawsuits alleging that eight gasoline refiners conspired to fix prices in California starting in 2012. Plaintiffs’ economic experts argued that the California gasoline market was susceptible to market manipulation and certain business practices by...

On March 11, 2022, a jury in California delivered a unanimous verdict in favor of Compass Lexecon’s client Sutter Health in Sidibe et. al, v. Sutter Health, a Federal class action antitrust case heard in the U.S. District Court for...

A Compass Lexecon team, led by expert Dr. Mark Israel, was retained by Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, counsel for Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE) to assist with obtaining regulatory approval of its proposed merger with Siliconware Precision Industries (SPIL). The...

In May 2017, the State of Illinois reached a tentative settlement agreement with the last remaining Defendant in the last remaining proceeding in the multidistrict TFT-LCD price-fixing antitrust litigation. This capped roughly ten years of Compass Lexecon involvement, from the...

In the most recent and significant claim brought under the 2006 US-Canada Softwood Lumber Agreement, British Columbia described the decision by an international tribunal rejecting the United States’ request for $500 million in additional export taxes against Compass Lexecon’s client...

In a March 2011 decision, the Surface Transportation Board, relying on the testimony of Compass Lexecon experts Professor Joseph Kalt and Dr. Glenn Mitchell, found that BNSF Railway’s coal containment polices were reasonable. Professor Kalt and Dr. Mitchell provided written...