This is a revised listing of vertical merger enforcement actions by the Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission since 1994. This revised listing includes 52 vertical matters beginning in 1994 through the end of 2016. It includes challenges and certain proposed transactions that are known to have been abandoned in the face of Agency concerns. This listing can be treated as an Appendix to Steven C. Salop and Daniel P. Culley, Revising the Vertical Merger Guidelines: Policy Issues and an Interim Guide for Practitioners, 4 JOURNAL OF ANTITRUST ENFORCEMENT 1 (2016).
Comments on the effect of algorithms and artificial intelligence on the likelihood of coordinated effects as described in Guideline 3 of the draft Merger Guidelines
In this note, we discuss how the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission (collectively, the Agencies) view the effect...