In a major policy switch, federal antitrust agencies recently announced increased hostility to vertical mergers. Stated reasons include skepticism of their benefits and of remedies traditionally used to control their competitive risks. Based on the long enforcement history involving vertical mergers, the agencies’ concerns are materially overstated. Since February 2022, agency litigation threats led to voluntary termination of several deals, but the agencies lost both of the other cases that w
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