Republican FTC Commissioners Issue Dissenting Statement on Use of Prior Approval Provisions in Merger Orders
Posted 11/3/21
As this blog has discussed, the FTC last week it is restoring a policy of “routinely requiring merging parties subject to a Commission order to obtain prior approval from the FTC before closing any future transaction affecting each relevant market for which a violation was alleged.” According to the FTC, its will help prevent facially anticompetitive deals, preserve FTC resources,...
