Q&A with Commissioner Christine Wilson: Vertical Mergers

The federal antitrust agencies published new guidelines last month for vertical mergers, marking the first such statement since the Department of Justice issued guidelines on “non-horizontal mergers” in 1984. GCR USA spoke with Commissioner Wilson on the paper, the role of elimination of double marginalisation in the new guidelines, and fellow commissioner Rohit Chopra’s dissent from the issuance of the guidelines.