DOJ’s Thumbs Down Scuttles Completed Merger Of Online Ratings And Review Companies
Posted 01/14/14
By Marlene Koury
Last week’s victory of the U.S. Department of Justice (the “DOJ”) in its challenge to a consummated merger in
U.S. v. Bazaarvoice Inc. shows that dominant companies that assume they are free to gobble up their main competitors if such consolidations do not meet the thresholds for reporting under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act (“HSR”) may be in for some rude awakenings.
While the DOJ has not...