Over at the Wall Street Journal's Deal Journal, they have a question and answer with Sonnenschein partner Kathrine Funk over the antitrust issues in the food industry.
"Will Charlie the Tuna may be caught in a fishing net that may not be dolphin-safe? Del Monte Foods is seeking alternative strategies for StarKist — Charlie’s current home — as the cost of tuna production gets more expensive. One problem: the two obvious buyers — Bumble Bee and Chicken of the Sea — already own a big chunk of the packaged-tuna market. And regulators are looking at dairies again. That got us thinking about competition among food companies.
So many dream food mergers seem to run into antitrust concerns. So we caught up with Katherine I. Funk, (left) a partner with law firm Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal, to find out why. Ms. Funk was a staff attorney with the Federal Trade Commission. (Deal Journal Trivia: Earlier in her career, Ms. Funk was a sports writer for the Kansas City Star, so she knows something about competition.)"
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