Will Antitrust Reviews Of Supermarket Deals Change?

Law360, New York ( May 22, 2014, 1:19 PM EDT) -- The last year has seen a noticeable uptick in supermarket deal activity. Some commentators are even beginning to compare the recent surge of acquisition activity to the last merger wave that started in the late 1990s, a time of large deals and increased market-share concentration for the supermarket industry. That wave, however, also resulted in increased antitrust oversight by the Federal Trade Commission, intense investigatory action, and numerous consent decrees and divestitures. Many in the industry learned painful lessons about how FTC scrutiny could delay, threaten, change or even derail deals....

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