The last time the FTC and DOJ revised vertical merger guidelines was in 2020, but those guidelines have since been withdrawn.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

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.

Horizontal and vertical mergers are two strategies your company can use to achieve specific objectives, ... Linton has also authored more than 20 published books and is a copywriter for global ...

One example of that type of deal, known as a vertical merger, would be Microsoft’s $69 billion proposed acquisition of video game publisher Activision Blizzard, which the FTC has challenged, so ...

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 ...

In November, the Department of Justice sued to block another vertical merger — AT&T’s proposed acquisition of Time Warner — over concerns that the integrated company would withhold their ...

6. Vertical mergers should not create market structures that foreclose competition. 7. Mergers should not entrench or extend a dominant position. 8. Mergers should not further a trend toward ...

If Washington changes policy and objects to vertical mergers (or, even worse, gets the Europeans to delay and kill them), the effects will ripple all the way down to an entrepreneur’s decision ...

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 ...