JD Supra12d
A Vertical Merger in a “Horizontal” Market: Court Rejects FTC’s Challenge to Tempur Sealy’s Acquisition of Mattress Firm
On January 31, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas denied the Federal Trade Commission’s request ...
JD Supra3d
2023 Merger Guidelines Continue in Effect
In somewhat of a surprise, FTC Chairman Ferguson announced yesterday that the FTC and Department of Justice’s joint 2023 ...
Trump's antitrust cops offer new signal they won't be more lenient than Biden
President Trump’s new Federal Trade Commission boss is keeping in place stricter Biden-era standards for policing US mergers, ...
Forbes8mon
Antitrust Should Not Crack Down Harder On Mergers
The agencies should: First, issue new wholly revised merger guidelines. Temporarily readopting the 2010 Horizontal Merger Guidelines would be a sound idea. Any tweaking of the adopted guidelines ...
Hosted on MSN1mon
Effective Communication Tactics During Post-Merger Integration
Types of mergers and acquisitions include horizontal, market extension, vertical, conglomerate, and congeneric. A horizontal merger’s purpose is to gain market share through consolidation.
Nature1mon
Merger Analysis and Price Effects
One significant area of recent research is the concentration thresholds used to evaluate horizontal mergers. A study has shown that focusing solely on the change in market concentration ...
Kellogg School of Management2mon
Antitrust Policy toward Horizontal Mergers
Recently there has been a notable increase in interest in antitrust law in much of the world. This chapter discusses antitrust policy toward horizontal mergers, the area of antitrust that has seen ...
FTC to maintain Biden-era merger rules, confirms Chairman Ferguson
Investing.com -- Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairman Andrew N. Ferguson announced that the FTC and the Department of Justice's (DOJ) joint 2023 Merger Guidelines are now in effect. These ...