Competition director departs FTC
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
Ken Glazer will leave his role as senior deputy director of the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Competition this month, FTC says. Glazer helped oversee the case against the Whole Foods/Wild Oats merger, which was settled in March (1"The Tan Sheet" March 9, 2009, In Brief). He also worked on FTC's pharmaceutical pay-for-delay settlement program, the agency noted May 6. FTC's attempts to block agreements between drug firms to delay introduction of generics stalled in the courts (2"The Tan Sheet" April 20, 2009, p. 6)
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