At the beginning of November 2022, US-based consumer water services company Culligan International completed its combination with Waterlogic Holdings, a B2B provider of drinking water dispensers, after obtaining all necessary approvals from competition authorities. Compass Lexecon assisted Culligan throughout the...

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 February 26, 2019, the U.S. Court of Appeals rejected the Department of Justice’s appeal of the US District Court’s opinion allowing the merger of AT&T and Time Warner to proceed without conditions. The Department of Justice announced soon thereafter...

Compass Lexecon was retained by AT&T and Time Warner to provide economic analysis and expert testimony concerning the merger of the two companies, and to assist with the litigation brought by the U.S. Department of Justice to block the deal...

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 August 2016, Ritchie Bros., the world's largest industrial auctioneer of construction, transportation and other equipment and trucks, entered into an agreement to acquire IronPlanet, a leading online marketplace for used heavy equipment and other durable assets. In May 2017,...

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...

Over the course of a 10 month case, Compass Lexecon assisted counsel from Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP in securing required regulatory approvals in multiple countries for Marriott International Inc.’s merger with Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide, Inc. This process...

Jury Finds Minimal Damages for HannStar Based on Testimony from Compass Lexecon Expert Professor Dennis Carlton and No Liability for Toshiba HannStar and other Taiwanese, Korean, and Japanese firms (not including Toshiba) had previously reached guilty plea agreements with the...

On Monday, June 25, Compass Lexecon expert, Dennis Carlton, testified as a damages expert in the direct-purchaser class portion of the TFT-LCD price fixing litigation, in which Toshiba was the sole remaining Defendant (all others had settled previously). The six-week...

Compass Lexecon economists Mary Coleman and David Weiskopf were retained by Garret Rasmussen and Antony Kim at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP to conduct an economic analysis of the proposed joint venture between Ineos and BASF in the styrenics industry....