ASSOCIATE DEAN DARYL LIM QUOTED IN CTFN ARTICLE ON SEVEN & I AND COUCHE-TARD DEAL RISKS
May 2025 — CTFN quoted Associate Dean Daryl Lim in an article examining the regulatory risks facing the potential merger between Seven & i Holdings and Alimentation Couche-Tard. He noted that the Federal Trade Commission’s challenge to the Albertsons-Kroger merger reflects a broader skepticism toward proposed remedies in markets where consumers have few alternatives.
“With inflation and cost-of-living concerns top of mind, any deal perceived to reduce consumer choice or raise prices, even indirectly, will face uphill scrutiny,” Lim said in the article. He also highlighted the potential for state-level legal challenges and broader political sensitivities surrounding corporate consolidation in essential retail sectors.
Daryl Lim is the H. Laddie Montague Jr. Chair in Law at Penn State Dickinson Law. He is also the Associate Dean for Research and Innovation and Founding Director of the Intellectual Property (IP) Law and Innovation Initiative. At the university level, he is a co-hire at the Institute of Computational and Data Sciences and an affiliate at the Center for Socially Responsible Artificial Intelligence.
Professor Lim is an award-winning author, observer, and commentator on national and global trends in IP and competition policy and how they influence and are influenced by law, technology, economics, and politics. He helps policymakers, attorneys, corporate counsel, scholars, and the public understand the world around them. He is a founding member of the Global IP Alliance and its local chapters in Pennsylvania and Illinois. In addition, he serves as Co-Chair of the University Education Committee in the US IP Alliance.
In December 2022, the American Law Institute elected Professor Lim to its membership based on demonstrated excellence and outstanding professional achievement. In 2023, the US Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission recognized him as “a leading expert in antitrust law and economics” and the IAM Strategy 300, a guide to the industry pioneers with “exceptional skill sets, as well as profound insights into the development, creation, and management of IP value,” named him to its World’s Leading IP Strategists 2023 list. In 2024, he was appointed to the consultative group advising the United Nations Secretary General’s High-Level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence. In 2025, he received the IP Professor of the Year Award at the Global Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence & Technology Conclave & Awards.