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Vertical Media Mergers: An Anatomy of Two Cases in Portugal

BY | October 8, 2019

By Ana Sofia Rodrigues Recent years have been marked by a renewed interest in vertical mergers. The highest profile case was the AT&T/Time Warner deal. Judicial decisions on the case,…

By Ana Sofia Rodrigues

Recent years have been marked by a renewed interest in vertical mergers. The highest profile case was the AT&T/Time Warner deal. Judicial decisions on the case, both the District Court’s (June 2018) and the Court of Appeals (February 2019) question the adequacy of bargaining models and the lack of real-world data to inform the assessment. This article explores these aspects having as a backdrop two vertical media mergers that were not allowed to go through by the Auto

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