Revising the Merger Guidelines: Looking Back to Move Forward

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Deborah Feinstein, Dec 16, 2009

The Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice have announced plans to consider revising the Horizontal Merger Guidelines “in light of changes in economic learning, the case law, and practice at the Antitrust Division and the FTC. There can be little doubt that aligning the Guidelines to actual practice and providing greater transparency to parties on the analysis the agencies will use