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Inspired by the Chicago School in the late sixties and seventies, the advent of the consumer welfare standard in antitrust enforcement,...
Freshfields Transactions
The opening chapter of the 2021 Getting The Deal Through: Merger Control publication presents a few key developments relating to the...
Until early 2020, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) had won each of the seven litigated merger challenges that it had brought since...
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In 2017, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) brought its first challenge against a vertical merger in 40 years in its unsuccessful suit to...
On Friday, U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon, who is presiding over the mandatory Tunney Act review of the remedy in the CVS/Aetna...
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“How will history judge the choices we made?” It is with this question that EU Commissioner Margrethe Vestager opened last week’s hotly...
Anyone contemplating a deal which raises competition concerns or involves a sensitive sector needs to plan ahead for heightened...
As if there were not enough uncertainty in the markets, a partial U.S. government shutdown (that today shows little sign of speedy...
Sellers in M&A processes are looking for three things: value, speed and certainty. At no point since the global financial crisis has...