FTC withdraws 2020 vertical merger guidelines. Will DOJ follow suit?
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Aaron Nicodemus2021-09-16T18:19:00
The Federal Trade Commission voted to withdraw 2020 guidelines for vertical mergers for including what three Democratic commissioners described as “unsound economic theories that are unsupported by the law or market realities.”
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