Mergers and Acquisitions

News headlines suggesting an uptick in merger activity in 2010 were validated by the Federal Trade Commission's 33rd “Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Annual Report,” which was released today by the FTC with…

The Department of Justice Antitrust Division and the Federal Communications Commission today conditionally approved a joint venture between Comcast Corp. and General Electric Co.'s subsidiary NBC…

The 2010 Horizontal Merger Guidelines give increased treatment to a topic that was not well developed in previous Guidelines – namely, mergers that threaten to restrain innovation. The 1968…

The FTC's efforts to substantially revise the Horizontal Merger Guidelines for the first time since 1992 were among the recent agency accomplishments touted by FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz in remarks…

On August 19, 2010, the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) and the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) issued the final revised Horizontal Merger Guidelines in order to reflect…