Acting Assistant Attorney General Richard A. and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair Lina Khan state that there is a plan to jointly launch a review of their merger guidelines with the goal of updating them to reflect a rigorous analytical approach consistent with applicable law.

The reason behind this statement is because the current guidelines deserve a hard look to determine whether they are overly permissive since whether merger guidelines reflect current economic realities and empirical learning and that they guide enforcers to review mergers with the skepticism the law demands need to be ensured.

(DOJ - 09.07.2021)

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