Instead, the 2023 Merger Guidelines state that the Agencies will determine whether a firm has a dominant position “based on direct evidence or market shares showing durable market power.”10The new Guidelines eliminate the presumption in the draft guidelines that the Agencies will...
In August 2023, the Federal Trade Commission introducedupdated guidelinesfor online reviews and social media endorsements. These guidelines apply whenever an influencer or content creator has a “material connection” with a brand, defined as a financial, personal, family or employment relationship. ...
The final Guidelines left largely intact the substance of the draft Guidelines released in July 2023. Notably, while the final Guidelines still note potential competitive harms from vertical transactions in which one competitor acquires assets on which other companies rely to compete, they ...
September 07, 2023White Paper The Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") and U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division ("DOJ") recently introduced proposed revisions to the existing merger guidelines. The new draft guidelines, if enacted in a form similar to the current draft, would represent ...
depending on the complexity of the transaction, the new forms could add up to 121 hours to the current filing process, which has traditionally taken less than a week to complete. On average, the process is expected to requ...
“any dimension of competition,” including scenarios where an otherwise competitive merger could diminish opportunities for workers. Attorney General Merrick B. Garland stated, “These finalized guidelines provide transparency into how ...
The DOJ and FTC jointly issued a draft update of their Merger Guidelines intended to describe and guide the Agencies’ review of mergers and acquisitions to determine compliance with federal antitrust laws.
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On July 19, 2023, the FTC releasednew draft merger guidelinesaffirming that position, explaining that “a merger’s harm to competition among buyers is not saved by benefits to competition among sellers.” At its core, the agencies’ position is that negative labor market effects are not o...
We first discuss analysis of non-horizontal effects of mergers, as reflected in the 2023 Merger Guidelines and in recent cases. Next, we discuss the economic analysis conducted by the FTC鈥檚 economists in two recent rules. We discuss the CARS rule, a rule that aims to increase price ...