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

Recently there has been a notable increase in interest in antitrust law in much of the world. This chapter discusses antitrust policy toward horizontal mergers, the area of antitrust that has seen ...

On January 31, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas denied the Federal Trade Commission’s request ...

One significant area of recent research is the concentration thresholds used to evaluate horizontal mergers. A study has shown that focusing solely on the change in market concentration ...

The agencies should: First, issue new wholly revised merger guidelines. Temporarily readopting the 2010 Horizontal Merger Guidelines would be a sound idea. Any tweaking of the adopted guidelines ...

Investing.com -- Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairman Andrew N. Ferguson announced that the FTC and the Department of Justice's (DOJ) joint 2023 Merger Guidelines are now in effect. These ...

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.