Editor's Note
Editor's note for the February 2023 issue of Antitrust Magazine Online, published by the Antitrust Law Section of the American Bar Association.
Antitrust Magazine Online | February 2023
In This Issue
If you Build it, They Will Come: Building an Efficiencies Case
The recent decision by Judge Pan to exclude evidence of merger efficiencies in the Penguin Random House/Simon & Schuster merger raises key questions about their role in merger challenges.
Towards an Evidence Based Framework for Enforcement of Vertical Mergers
The article analyzes court opinions in the government’s recent unsuccessful efforts to enjoin vertical mergers and explores the types of evidence that the government can offer to persuade the courts…
Paper Trail: Mergers, Efficiencies, Entry, and Market Power
This Paper Trail considers research on countervailing factors such as entry and efficiencies that can overcome the adverse effects of an anticompetitive merger.