by William Markham | Oct 10, 2014 | Antitrust Litigation and Counseling
Are the antitrust laws implicated by Amazon’s new strategy of depriving sellers of access to its platform unless they offer it market-beating prices that they cannot offer to anyone else? The short answer is that the practice exposes Amazon to arguable but problematic...
by William Markham | Feb 13, 2014 | Business Litigation
Price-fixing merely means that two companies that are genuinely independent of one another have acted in concert to fix, raise, lower or otherwise manipulate the going prices for products or services that they each provide. Price-fixing constitutes a serious, per se...
by William Markham | Jan 31, 2014 | Business Litigation
The best indicator of a company’s value is its price-to-earnings ratio: At what price could you purchase the company? This price is the current valuation of the company. How does this price compare to the company’s present earnings, which are the company’s revenues...
by William Markham | Jan 6, 2014 | Business Litigation
The best predictors of the long-term value of a parcel of real property are the following two ratios: (1) the price-to-rents ratio; and (2) the price-to-income ratio. The price-to-rents ratio is the direct comparison of (1) the price of the property; and (2) the...
by William Markham | Jan 5, 2013 | Antitrust Litigation and Counseling
Did Amazon Violate Antitrust Law in Order to Dominate the Sale of E-Books? The other day I received a query from someone who, like many others, was under the impression that Amazon had used antitrust abuses in order increase its sales at the expense of impoverished...
