The most recent guidelines for horizontal mergers are from 2010, while those for vertical ones were last issued in 2020, at the final year of the Trump administration.

The last time the FTC and DOJ revised vertical merger guidelines was in 2020, but those guidelines have since been withdrawn. The last time the agencies revised horizontal merger guidelines was in ...

Vertical health care mergers may span the expertise of both agencies (for example, an insurer/provider merger). In these cases, the industry that is most likely to be harmed by the transaction ...

The Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday released a set of long-anticipated draft updates to the nation’s merger guidelines, introducing potentially comprehensive ...

Major court losses and more favorable economic conditions could set the stage for a new round of megadeals and mergers. By Winston Cho On Aug. 17, days after its strike passed the 100-day mark ...

Draft merger guidelines break new ground by addressing the increasingly complex types of consolidation trends that have emerged in the health care industry, specifically non-horizontal mergers ...

Federal antitrust agencies have proposed updates to U.S. merger guidelines that, if finalized, could free up regulators to more successfully crack down on consolidation in the healthcare industry ...

The Trump administration’s Department of Justice brought the first vertical merger challenge in federal district court in roughly 40 years when it sued to block AT&T’s acquisition of Time Warner.