by Wiggin and Dana LLP | Sep 15, 2019
Federal Estate Tax Changes. Each U.S. citizen and permanent U.S. resident is entitled to an “applicable exclusion amount” that exempts up to a certain amount of an estate from the federal estate tax. For 2008, the applicable exclusion amount is $2 million....
by Wiggin and Dana LLP | Sep 15, 2019
On December 14, 1998, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in NYNEX Corporation v. Discon, Incorporated, 119 S.Ct. 493 (1998) that the per se boycott rule cannot be applied to a vertical non-price restraint between a single supplier and a single customer, even when there is...
by Wiggin and Dana LLP | Sep 15, 2019
Joseph G. Krauss, the head of the Premerger Notification Office and an Assistant Director of the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Competition, recently spoke to the Antitrust and Trade Regulation and Corporate Counsel Sections of the Connecticut Bar...
by Wiggin and Dana LLP | Sep 15, 2019
American Family Enterprises (commonly known as American Family Publishers “AFP”), Ed McMahon, and Dick Clark have retained Wiggin & Dana to represent them in connection with far-reaching legal challenges to the legality of the popular sweepstakes AFP...
by Wiggin and Dana LLP | Sep 15, 2019
Congratulations to Jim Farrington, who has been in Sweden since late 1997, and his team, for successfully shepherding the sale of Pharmacia & Upjohn, Inc.’s intravenous drug business to Germany’s Fresenius AG through 14 separate pre-merger filings in...
