Criterion's Founder and Chairman Speak at FTC/DOJ Panel

May 8, 2007

Criterion Founder J. Gregory Sidak and Chairman Jeffrey Eisenach participated in a joint FTC and DOJ panel on May 8 as part of a series of hearings designed to examine the implications of single-firm conduct under the antitrust laws. The hearings examined when single-firm actions are procompetitive and lawful and whether and when certain types of single-firm conduct may violate Section 2 of the Sherman Act. The panel was structured as a roundtable discussion, moderated by FTC Chairman Deborah Platt Majoras and DOJ Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust Thomas Barnett.

Other panelists included Susan Creighton, Partner at Wilson Sonsini and former Director of the FTC Bureau of Competition, Douglas Melamed, co-chair of the Antitrust and Competition Department at Wilmer Hale, Timothy Muris, co-chair of the Antitrust/Competition practice at O'Melveny & Myers LLP and former Chairman of the FTC, Robert Pitofsky, counsel to the Antitrust/Competition practice at Arnold & Porter and former Chairman of the FTC, James Rill, Partner in Howrey LLP's Antitrust practice and former Assistant Attorney General in charge of the DOJ's Antitrust Division, and Rick Rule, head of Cadwalader, Wickersham and Taft's Antitrust practice and former Assistant Attorney General in charge of the DOJ's Antitrust Division.

To view the transcript of the DOJ/FTC hearing, please click here.