Stocking stuffers: The Tipline for 4 January 2021

The US antitrust agencies may have delivered their major presents to Google and Facebook before the holiday break, but they still had plenty of stockings stuffers for the antitrust community. Hopefully your kids appreciated a year off from The Polar Express in favour of the Federal Trade Commission’s new commentary on vertical merger enforcement. And several merging companies – RentPath/CoStar Group and Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare/Tenet Healthcare – delivered the FTC some gifts of their own.