Agencies publish new vertical merger guidelines

Spencer Parts

01 July 2020

Assistant attorney general for antitrust Makan Delrahim and FTC chair Joseph Simons (Credit: Joseph Simons via Twitter)

The Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission have published new guidelines for analysing vertical mergers.

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