FTC-DOJ Vertical Merger Guide Aims To Boost Transparency

By Maureen Ohlhausen and Christine Ryu-Naya ( January 23, 2020, 1:38 PM EST) -- On Jan. 10, the Federal Trade Commission and the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice released joint draft vertical merger guidelines. The draft guidelines, which will be open to public comment for 30 days, rescind the nonhorizontal merger guidelines issued by the DOJ in 1984. The 1984 guidelines were widely considered out-of-date and not representative of agency practice....

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