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20040429: DLJ Real Estate Capital Partners II, L.P.; Lanter Company
Fountain of Youth Group, The, LLC
20040428: SAVVIS Communications Corporation; Cable & Wireless plc
20040422: Roto-Rooter, Inc.; Vitas Healthcare Corporation
20040407: Pegasus Related Partners, L.P.; Property Risk Services, LLC
0402001 Informal Interpretation
0402002 Informal Interpretation
F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd., et al. v. Empagran S.A.
Tenet Healthcare Corporation and Frye Regional Medical Center, Inc.
A consent order prohibits Frye Regional Medical Center, Inc., an acute care hospital in Hickory, North Carolina, and its parent company Tenet Healthcare Corporation from entering into any agreement to negotiate fees on behalf of any physician practicing in four North Carolina counties and from refusing to deal with insurance companies and other payers. Also refer to related administrative complaint issued to Piedmont Health Alliance. This settlement is the first case in which the Commission has named a hospital as a participant in an alleged physician price-fixing conspiracy.
20040438: Sir Frederick Barclay; Lord Black of Crossharbour
20040418: Sir David Barclay; Lord Black of Crossharbour
20040415: Providence Equity Partners IV L.P.; Freedom Communications, Inc.
20040414: Blackstone FC Communications Partners L.P.; Freedom Communications, Inc.
20040399: GTCR Fund VIII, L.P.; TSG3 L.P.
General Electric Company, In the Matter of
A final consent order settled antitrust concerns stemming from General Electric Company’s proposed acquisition of Agfa-Gevaert N.V.’s nondestructive testing business. According to the complaint issued with the consent order, the transaction as proposed would have eliminated competition in the United States markets for portable flaw detectors, corrosion thickness gages, and precision thickness gages - equipment used to inspect the tolerance of materials without damaging them or impairing their future usefulness. The consent order requires General Electric to divest its worldwide Panametrics Ultrasonic NDT business to R/D Tech, Inc. within 20 days after the transaction is completed.