Conner: FTC trying different theories in merger cases

Spencer Parts

21 April 2020

FTC Bureau of Competition director Ian Conner speaking at GCR Live Miami in February

The Federal Trade Commission’s top competition enforcer has said the agency’s recent surge in enforcement is partly due to its willingness to consider different theories in merger challenges.

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