Our Curious Amalgam

In the past 30 years, antitrust regimes have been widely adopted around the world. Our guest, Randy Tritell, is the Director of the Office of International Affairs at the Federal Trade Commission. In this episode, Randy talks with John Roberti and Ricardo Woolery about the growth of antitrust internationally. Randy will explain how the agencies around the world work together and share information...

Merger control is one of the most high-profile areas of antitrust law, but jargon can all too easily obscure the key issues in this domain. Our guest, ABA Antitrust Section Merger Committee Co-Chair Mike Keeley, is an expert in getting mergers cleared by the antitrust agencies. In this episode, Mike talks with John Roberti and Sergei Zaslavsky about the process and substance of shepherding a merge...

Privacy law is developing quickly in the United States and is becoming all the more important with the development of California's Privacy Law. Our guest, Alysa Hutnik, is the Consumer Protection Officer for the Antitrust Section and an expert on privacy law. In this episode, Alysa speaks with John Roberti and Anora Wang about privacy law generally and California's new privacy law, its substance a...

Companies and individuals in criminal cartels can avoid prosecution if they self-report to the leniency program at the U.S. Department of Justice. While this program has been hugely successful in cracking cartels for decades, a number of reports suggest that leniency applications and large-scale investigations are down overall. Our guests, Lisa Phelan and Craig Lee, are former prosecutors who have...

Rock music has been the subject of a number of antitrust investigations over the years and on this episode, we talk about why that is. Our guest, Jonathan Jacobson is not only an enormous fan of rock music, has been in the middle of a number of them. Jon speaks with John Roberti and Elyse Dorsey about these investigations and litigations, starting with Pearl Jam and going through the present day....

Our Curious Amalgam explores topics in antitrust, consumer protection, and privacy law around the world, discussed by leading experts in the areas. It is an amalgam because it is a group of diverse topics all in one place; it is curious because it gets the experts and asks them the in-depth questions.