Let’s Make a Deal: The Tipline for 15 March 2022

The US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia has a Monty Hall problem. The court tasked with restoring competition lost by Jeld-Wen’s 2012 acquisition of Craftmaster must decide which bidders to approve for the required divestiture. Behind one door may be a viable third competitor to the doorskin duopoly. Behind another could lie the same vertical theories of foreclosure that spurred Steve and Sons' novel lawsuit in the first place. Also in Tipline, the Department of Justice names its first-ever director of human capital and Clifford Chance poaches a hospital merger specialist.