For EU guidelines on the assessment of horizontal mergers, see European Union merger law.
Merger guidelines in the United States are a set of internal rules promulgated by the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ) in conjunction with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). These rules have been revised over the past four decades. They govern the process by which these two regulatory bodies scrutinize and/or challenge a potential merger. Grounds for challenges include increased market concentration and threat to competition within a relevant market.
The merger guidelines have sections governing both horizontal integration and vertical integration.
vertical integration. The first mergerguidelines set forth by the DOJ were the 1968 MergerGuidelines. The guidelines were developed by former U.S. Assistant...
Khan on efforts to reform federal mergerguidelines. In 2022, the FTC and the DOJ blocked a record number of mergers on anti-trust grounds. During his...
Trade Commission Horizontal MergerGuidelines". Retrieved 2023-05-04. para. 6.3 Guidelines on the assessment of horizontal mergers under the Council Regulation...
Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission's Horizontal MergerGuidelines is entitled "Market Definition, Measurement and Concentration" and...
Shapiro (1990) highlighted issues of the Department of Justice’s MergerGuidelines (1984), with its use of Herfindahl-Hirschman indices. The main issues...
products outside that market. In the United States, there exist a set of mergerguidelines—written by the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ)...
total, the more concentrated the market. In the US, the mergerguidelines state that a post-merger HHI below 1000 is viewed as not concentrated while HHIs...
place". Nikkei Asia. Retrieved 2024-01-19. "Antitrust Division | 2023 MergerGuidelines | United States Department of Justice". www.justice.gov. 2023-12-12...
European Union merger law is a part of the law of the European Union. It is charged with regulating mergers between two or more entities in a corporate...
(McGraw-Hill 2001) at 184. Calkins, Stephen (Mar 1983). "The New MergerGuidelines and the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index". California Law Review. 71 (2):...
acquisition of Bharat Financial Inclusion Limited (BFIL) for ₹15,000 crore. The merger was officially completed in July 2019. In September 2023, IndusInd Bank...
that has been incorporated into the Department of Justice and FTC MergerGuidelines, as well as applied in numerous court decisions. On October 19, 2017...
Publishing the BTL Implementation Guidelines document Certifying the products per BACnet testing and BTL guidelines Supporting the activities of the BTL-WG...
Coke than it cost to make, deliver, and sell it. The Cellophane and MergerGuidelines Fallacies Again, article by Pierluigi Sabbatini Decided by the Supreme...
college in Atchison, Kansas, United States. It was established in 1971 by the merger of St. Benedict's College (founded 1858) for men and Mount St. Scholastica...
rules before any additional state mergers. Each union adopted a series of guidelines for approval of state mergers. Through the NEA-AFT joint council...
partial list of major banking company mergers in the United States. This 2012 chart shows some of the mergers noted above. Solid arrows point from the...
on complying with antitrust laws through publication of MergerGuidelines, additional guidelines and clarificatory notes. The Philippine Competition Commission...
potential acquirer evaluates a target company or its assets in advance of a merger or acquisition. The theory behind due diligence holds that performing this...
on behalf of the International Association of Geodesy (IAG). It is the merger and continuation of Bulletin Géodésique and manuscripta geodaetica (both...
Wayback Machine in 2006 see, for instance para 17, Guidelines on the assessment of horizontal mergers (2004/C 31/03) C-68/94 France v. Commission [1998]...
In 2019, National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) published guidelines and made a distinction from a similar concept "metropolitan area" (都市圈)...
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