In this issue: In August, the FTC and DOJ issued their new horizontal merger guidelines. In this special double issue, we explore if these new guidelines accomplish the Agencies’ stated…

James Langenfeld, Oct 28, 2010 The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) and the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) issued revised Horizontal Merger Guidelines (“HMGs”) on August 19, 2010. The HMGs resulted from…

Hill Wellford, Gregory Wells, Oct 28, 2010 The new Horizontal Merger Guidelines, issued by the U.S. antitrust Agencies on August 19, 2010, mark a clear change from their 1992 predecessor.They…

Janet McDavid, Eric Stock, Oct 28, 2010 On August 19, 2010, the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission (the “Agencies”) released the final version of their revised Horizontal…

Gregory Leonard, Oct 28, 2010 The release of the 2010 Merger Guidelines was largely an anticlimax. Unlike the 1982 and 1992 Merger Guidelines, the 2010 Merger Guidelines did not offer…

Michael Doane, Luke Froeb, Steven Tschantz, Oct 28, 2010 Every first-year law student has heard the story of the man who was mowing his lawn when he realized that his…

Paul Denis, Oct 28, 2010 The two principal reasons that the 1992 Horizontal Merger Guidelines achieved longevity, judicial acceptance, and international imitation were: (1) for the most part, it asked…

Oct 28, 2010 Those of us who practice competition law globally and who engage in international technical assistance are regularly struck by the wide variation in culture and expertise among…

Malcolm Coate, Joseph Simons, Oct 28, 2010 For almost 30 years, the U.S. antitrust enforcement agencies have described a structured, step-by-step analytical methodology in their Merger Guidelines. Prior revisions to…