Law360, New York (June 23, 2009, 12:00 AM ET) -- Private equity firms, including a unit of JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Bain Capital Partners LLC, facing antitrust claims revolving around joint bidding procedures for leveraged buyouts will not have to produce metadata now that a federal judge has ruled that providing the information would increase discovery costs and time without adding a significant amount of admissible evidence.
Judge Edward F. Harrington of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts also ruled that the private equity firms would have to bear the costs for...
Metadata Request Nixed In Equity Firms Antitrust Case
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