US agencies issue draft vertical merger guidelines

Pallavi Guniganti

13 January 2020

Joseph Simons, Margrethe Vestager, and Makan Delrahim (Credit: FTC)

The US antitrust agencies have published a draft version of new vertical merger guidelines without the support of the two Democratic members of the Federal Trade Commission.

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