In somewhat of a surprise, FTC Chairman Ferguson announced yesterday that the FTC and Department of Justice’s joint 2023 ...

Types of mergers and acquisitions include horizontal, market extension, vertical, conglomerate, and congeneric. A horizontal merger’s purpose is to gain market share through consolidation.

An example of a merger would be that business A and business ... business in either the same or a different area of the market. Horizontal integration occurs when two competitors join through ...