Merging like it's 1999: The Tipline for 2 March 2021

For the first time since the turn of the century, the Federal Trade Commission has been defeated in a hospital merger challenge. The agency has dropped its appeal against a Pennsylvania federal court’s Jefferson/Einstein ruling. Also in Tipline, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher adds a pair of FTC alumni and GCR USA interviews the commission’s previous chief economist.