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Shearman & Sterling's Antitrust Group and the Bay Area offices recently hosted a very successful seminar on the unique antitrust challenges facing the tech industry. Additional seminars are scheduled over the coming months.

Antitrust partner Dale Collins, speaking before an overflow audience of more than 60 seminar participants, discussed the revised DOJ and FTC horizontal merger guidelines that were recently issued in August. "An overhaul was in order, since the agencies have not followed the prior guidelines for years." Collins said. "The more aggressive and flexible tone of the revised Guidelines is likely intended to help the agencies in litigation, where some courts have criticized the agencies for departing from the more structured approach of the prior guidelines."

Collins was joined by antitrust litigation partner Jim Donato, organizer of the seminar series, and M&A partner Steve Camahort, antitrust partner Beau Buffier and antitrust associate Jessica Delbaum.

The seminar series will continue with a Nov. 19 program on European merger control. Shearman & Sterling partners Hans Jurgen Meyer-Lindemann and Matthew Readings will lead the seminar and will focus on EU Merger Control Developments.

"The seminar series is designed to give clients an early and advanced appreciation of the antitrust issues they are likely to encounter in the rapidly changing tech sector—a major engine for US economic growth," Donato says.