Simpson Thacher Senior Associate Ketan Jhaveri will serve on the faculty of an ABA panel entitled Howard Stern and Unilateral Effects: Lessons from the XM-Sirius Satellite Radio Merger on September 10, 2008. This program will examine the antitrust issues surrounding the XM-Sirius satellite radio merger and debate the implications of the Department of Justice's analysis.
The panel will examine key factual and legal issues including:
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The basis and legal ramifications of DOJ's finding that the parties were not significant competitors in certain segments of the satellite radio business
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Market definition issues affecting the DOJ's analysis of the retail channel
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The role of efficiencies in DOJ's analysis
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The impact of future technological developments in DOJ's analysis
The panel will use this discussion as a basis to predict the impact of this case on future unilateral effects challenges, and on merger enforcement trends in general. The other speakers are David L. Meyer, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice, Charles E. Biggio, Partner, Wilson, Sonsini,Goodrich & Rosati, J. Gregory Sidak, Criterion Economics, LLC, and Jim R. Wade, Partner, Haynes and Boone, LLP.
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