The Justice Department and four Democratic state attorneys general argued that United’s takeover would limit competition and ...

Biden antitrust enforcers sought to discourage all mergers. The new Trump Administration should revive a prior approach that ...

(3) Underscore the strong presumption that vertical mergers (mergers involving firms at different levels of the distribution chain, such as manufacturers and retailers) are efficient. Second ...

In the latest effort to prevent vertical consolidation in the healthcare industry, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) – along with the states ...

AT&T will face off against the U.S. government this week in a high-stakes courtroom battle over whether it should be allowed to buy Time Warner Inc., ...

The big picture: Though Congress is still in the early stages of figuring out a possible response, lawmakers' comments suggested support for cracking down on vertical mergers that have allowed ...

Vertical mergers occur between companies at different levels of supply chains. “It front-loads a lot more work than we’ve had in the past,” Jon Dubrow, partner at McDermott Will and Emery ...

Instead of emphasizing the size of the merger, the court, in part, leaned on the industry's "trend toward concentration." The upshot? A series of horizontal and vertical mergers in a single ...