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Fraud Susceptibility Experiment Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Collection; Comment Request
20090477: AT&T Inc.; Verizon Communications Inc.
Hexion LLC, et al., In the Matter of
The FTC challenged Hexion LLC's proposed acquisition of Huntsman Corp., and settled its charges with a proposed consent order which requiredthe divestiture of Hexion's specialty epoxy business, and prevented the sharing of sensitive and non-public information which could lead to coordination of prices. Huntsman and Hexion are both producers of high-performance and specialty chemicals used in the aerospace and alternative energy industries. Subsequently, Hexion LLC and Huntsman Corporation petitioned the Commission to reopen and set aside two orders related to their proposed merger because they terminated their planned merger; the Commission granted, in part, the petition but left in place provisions of the order requiring Hexion for three years to seek the Commission’s approval prior to any acquisition of Huntsman, or any merger or other combination with Huntsman.
0906003 Informal Interpretation
0906004 Informal Interpretation
20090498: Banque Federale des Banques Populaires; CEBP SA
20090496: Caisse Nationale des Caisses d'Epargne; CEBP SA
Endocare, Inc. and Galil Medical, Ltd.
Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission on "It's Too Easy Being Green: Defining Fair Green Marketing Principles"
20090490: Occidental Petroleum Corporation; The Dow Chemical Company
Reed Elsevier NV, et al., In the Matter of
In September, 2008, the Commission challenged Reed Elsevier’s $4.1 billion proposed acquisition of ChoicePoint, which would have combined the two leading providers of electronic public record services provided to U.S. law enforcement customers. Public records services compile public and non-public records about individuals and businesses, including credit data, criminal, motor vehicle, property, and employment records, all used by law enforcement as an investigative tool in solving a wide variety of crimes. The transaction, as proposed, would have removed the intense rivalry that had lead to lower prices, product innovations, and improved services and support for law enforcement customers by eliminating the competition between Reed Elsevier’s LexisNexis product and ChoicePoint’s AutoTrackXP and CLEAR products. The Commission required divestiture of ChoicePoint’s product lines to Thomson Reuters Legal Inc. The Commission worked with the Attorneys General of eighteen states on this investigation.