Antitrust

Automated pricing tools do not sit outside antitrust law. Regulators and courts are increasingly treating them as a modern mechanism through which familiar antitrust harms may occur: horizontal price-fixing, hub-and-spoke coordination, information-sharing conspiracies, monopolization through control of pricing infrastructure, and algorithm-enabled restraints in two-sided or data-intensive markets. DOJ has expressly stated that “using software as the sharing mechanism does no

An accessible analysis of how regulators evaluate tech platforms and data ecosystems, including market definition, data advantages, lock-in, interoperability, privacy, and digital market power.

An accessible look at when a company’s market dominance crosses into antitrust liability, focusing on monopoly power, durability, and exclusionary conduct under federal antitrust law.