IN AUGUST 2010, AFTER ALMOST A YEAR OF STUDY, the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission issued revised Horizontal Merger Guidelines. The 2010 Guidelines replaced in their entirety the similar Guidelines that were issued in 1992 and revised in part in 1997. The new Guidelines thus represent the first major revision to the Horizontal Merger Guidelines in eighteen years.
Introduction: 2010 Horizontal Merger Guidelines
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