On December 18, 2023, the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission (collectively, the “Agencies”) jointly released the 2023 Merger Guidelines, which describe factors and frameworks the Agencies often utilize when reviewing mergers and acquisitions.

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Dec 18, 2023 · Today, the Federal Trade Commission and the Justice Department jointly issued the 2023 Merger Guidelines, which describe factors and frameworks the agencies utilize when reviewing mergers and acquisitions.

1 day ago · As described in our January 2024 Insight, the 2023 Merger Guidelines were a wholesale revision of prior guidelines, addressing not only horizontal mergers, but also non-horizontal transactions and ...

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.

These Merger Guidelines explain how the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission (the “Agencies”) identify potentially illegal mergers. They are designed to help the public, business community, practitioners, and courts understand the factors and frameworks the Agencies consider when investigating mergers.

Jan 18, 2024 · On December 18, 2023, the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission (the Antitrust Agencies) issued the 2023 Merger Guidelines, which replace the Antitrust Agencies’ 2010 Horizontal Merger Guidelines and the 2020 Vertical Merger Guidelines.

1 day ago · The merger guidelines— the first update to how the US government reviews mergers in more than a decade — encouraged tighter scrutiny of mergers’ impact on worker pay and online markets. They ...

In December 2023, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) finalized the 2023 Merger Guidelines (the Guidelines), which outline the agencies’ analytical approach to merger review.

3 days ago · The wholesale rescission and reworking of guidelines is time consuming and expensive,” Chairman Ferguson said. “We should undertake this process sparingly. We have limited resources to patrol the beat and constant turnover undermines agency credibility.” Chairman Ferguson’s memo to staff on the Merger Guidelines can be found here.

The 2023 Merger Guidelines comprise eleven (11) different guidelines for assessing whether a merger may substantially lessen competition or tend to create a monopoly. Guidelines 1 to 6 describe distinct analytic frameworks to identify if a merger raises concerns about potential harm to competition; guidelines 7-11 explain

Dec 18, 2023 · Today, the Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) jointly issued the 2023 Merger Guidelines, which describe factors and frameworks the agencies utilize when reviewing mergers and acquisitions.

3 days ago · The Biden-era guidelines for antitrust reviews of mergers by the DOJ and FTC are widely disliked by corporations.

Dec 19, 2023 · The final 2023 Merger Guidelines detail that a merger will be presumptively unlawful if it has a post-merger Herfindahl-Hirschmann Index ("HHI") of 1,800, and an increase in HHI of 100 from pre-merger levels.

Today, the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice are releasing a draft update of the Merger Guidelines, which describe and guide the agencies’ review of mergers and acquisitions to determine compliance with federal antitrust laws.

On December 18, 2023, the Antitrust Division of the DOJ and the FTC adopted new Merger Guidelines, which explain the standards and tools that these agencies apply to assess M&A transactions for...

2 days ago · As described in our January 2024 Insight, the 2023 Merger Guidelines were a wholesale revision of prior guidelines, addressing not only horizontal mergers, but also non-horizontal transactions and ...

These Merger Guidelines identify the procedures and enforcement practices the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission (the “Agencies”) most often use to investigate whether mergers violate the antitrust laws.

2 days ago · Until such revisions are made, “the Antitrust Division will continue use of the 2023 Merger Guidelines.” The FTC and DOJ’s retention of the 2023 Merger Guidelines signals that the Trump administration will seek to implement a bi-partisan approach to merger enforcement that promotes stability and increased certainty for businesses and courts.

Jul 19, 2023 · 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 ...