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Merger guidelines in the United States are a set of internal rules promulgated by the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ) in conjunction with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). These rules have been revised over the past four decades.
The Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday released a set of long-anticipated draft updates to the nation’s merger guidelines, introducing potentially comprehensive ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Mergers in markets where there are a few big players will receive tougher scrutiny under guidelines that were finalized on Monday and released by the Justice Department ...
Between fiscal years 2017 and 2019, a period that roughly corresponds with Trump’s first three years in office, the DOJ and FTC brought 118 M&A challenges, according to annual reports issued by ...
The FTC and the Justice Department both have the authority to file lawsuits seeking to block or invalidate a merger. The FTC may challenge a merger in its own administrative court instead of filing a lawsuit in a United States district court, although defendants can appeal the FTC's decisions to one of the United States courts of appeals. A ...
Web tool for calculating pre- and post-merger Herfindahl index. Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission 2010 Horizontal Merger Guidelines. More detailed information about mergers, market concentration, and competition (from the Department of Justice
The order calls on the FTC and the Department of Justice (DOJ) to "enforce the antitrust laws vigorously and recognizes that the law allows them to challenge prior bad mergers that past administrations did not previously challenge" in areas such as the tech sector, labor markets, and the healthcare industry. [2]
It’s also important to point out that the FTC’s challenge of Kroger’s deal to buy Albertsons is among the first to come under new merger guidelines published by the FTC and DOJ, which ...