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The 1992 Guidelines were revised in 1997, almost concurrently with the FTC's challenge of the Staples-Office Depot merger in federal court. The 1997 Horizontal Merger Guidelines were replaced on August 19, 2010. [9] These guidelines introduced the concept of "upward pricing pressure" resulting from a merger between competing firms.
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
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. v. Zenith Radio Corp., 475 U.S. 574 (1986), was an antitrust case decided by the Supreme Court of the United States.It raised the standard for surviving summary judgment to unambiguous evidence that tends to exclude an innocent interpretation.
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Northern Securities Co. v. United States, 193 U.S. 197 (1904) horizontal merger under the Sherman Act; United States v. Philadelphia National Bank, 374 U.S. 321 (1963) the second and third largest of 42 banks in the Philadelphia area would lead to a 30% market control in a concentrated market, and so violated the Clayton Act §7.
The JetBlue-Spirit merger is dead.. Both airlines announced Monday they are calling off the $3.8 billion deal, just eight days after they had filed a legal brief seeking to overturn a court ...
Dividing territories, market division or horizontal territorial allocation is an agreement by two companies to stay out of each other's way and reduce competition in the agreed-upon territories. The process known as geographic market allocation is one of several anti-competitive practices outlawed under United States antitrust laws .
The vast majority of significant competition issues associated with mergers arises in horizontal mergers. [1] A horizontal merger is one between parties that are competitors at the same level of production and/or distribution of a good or service, i.e., in the same relevant market. [2] There are two types of anticompetitive effects associated ...