DOJ urges flexibility for private plaintiffs looking to unwind mergers

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01 June 2020

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The Department of Justice’s antitrust division has asked the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit not to adopt a bright-line rule that would block private parties from seeking to unwind a consummated merger.

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