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Katherine Funk

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SONNENSCHEIN, NATH & ROSENTHAL, LLP
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Katherine Funk is a Partner in the Antitrust & Competition, Health Care and Litigation Practice Groups at Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal. She regularly counsels clients in matters before the Federal Trade Commission, where previously she was a staff attorney...

Jeffrey Aaronson

Partner
Law Offices of Jeffrey B. Aaronson, Ltd.
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Jeffrey B. Aaronson practices law at the law offices of Jeffrey B Aaronson, Ltd. He was a former Partner in the Antitrust and Trade Regulation Department at Bell, Boyd & Lloyd located in Chicago, Illinois. He concentrates his practice in white collar...

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Michael McNeely

Principal
Law Offices of Michael D. McNeely
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Michael McNeely is in private practice in Washington, DC, where he provides antitrust counseling and representation. Mr. McNeely consults on the antitrust and antitrust agency aspects of mergers, generic drug approvals, telecommunications, patents, standard...

Richard Liebeskind, Partner, Antitrust and Competition, PILLSBURY WINTHROP SHAW PITTMAN LLPRichard Liebeskind

Partner, Antitrust and Competition
PILLSBURY WINTHROP SHAW PITTMAN LLP
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Richard Liebeskind is Partner at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP in Washington, DC. He has represented and advised corporations in civil and criminal antitrust matters, including price fixing, business conduct, monopolization, mergers and regulatory...

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Eugene Lipkowitz

Of Counsel
STEVENS & LEE P.C. (INC)
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Eugene Lipkowitz is Of Counsel at Stevens & Lee in New York, where he focuses on antitrust, unfair competition, and related subjects. He counsels major institutions and corporations on compliance with federal and state antitrust laws concerning exclusionary...

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Whole Food's Statements Create Difficulties for the Wild Oats Deal

June 20, 2007

Analysis by:Jeffrey Aaronson, Partner,

Whole Foods CEO Talked of "Eliminating" Rivalsl | seattletimes.nwsource.com

  The FTC's recently released unredacted version of the complaint against Whole Foods adds some spice to the case and helps explain the thinking behind bringing the case. In the unredacted material, Whole Foods' CEO John Mackey explained to the Whole Foods board that part of the rationale for acquiring Wild Oats was to "avoid nasty price wars" in a number of cities. In the newly unredacted material Whole Foods asserts that it "has created a brand that has real value;" and that it has created a "customer loyalty that will not be stolen away by conventional markets who sell the same products." Although the statements will likely make for hard going in court, they do not directly go to the key point in the case; the likely nature of future competition. To succeed in court, Whole Foods, will have to provide objective evidence showing that in the future, it will have compete against conventional supermarkets .

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