- Chief Compliance Officer and VP of Legal Affairs, Arrow Electronics
By 
Dave Lefort2020-07-01T16:52:00
The FTC and DOJ jointly issued long-awaited vertical merger guidelines that will replace decades-old parameters to more accurately represent the agencies’ merger review process.
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The Federal Trade Commission voted to withdraw 2020 guidelines for vertical mergers for including what three Democratic commissioners described as “unsound economic theories that are unsupported by the law or market realities.”
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