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US antitrust enforcers getting their ‘feet wet,’ expect ramp up in enforcement, US DOJ’s Mekki says

By Khushita Vasant
  • 22 Apr 2022 22:36
  • 22 Apr 2022 23:09
Antitrust law enforcers in the US are bringing back into use relatively lesser-used legal tools under a whole-of-government approach by the Biden administration to fix competition problems in the US economy, which will see a ramp up in enforcement, a senior US Department of Justice official said today.
Doha Mekki,

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Khushita Vasant

Chief Antitrust Correspondent, US


Khushita covers US antitrust enforcement and litigation for MLex. A former Brussels hand, she wrote about about antitrust & mergers for the Policy and Regulatory Report (PaRR), she has covered the EU's actions against Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon to name a few. Khushita specialises in tech and patent policy coverage which featured in the Concurrences Antitrust Writing Awards. Previously as a financial journalist for The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires, she wrote about monetary policy and the bond and currency markets. Khushita studied journalism at Mumbai University, and received an Erasmus Mundus scholarship for a masters from universities in Germany and Austria.

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