Antitrust Enforcers’ New Merger Guidelines

Merger guidelines used by the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice to assess the antitrust impact of transactions were updated and revised in 4Q. In this episode of the Votes and Verdicts podcast, Edelman Smithfield Managing Director Ira Gorsky joins Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Jennifer Rie to discuss the implications of several of the changes. They focus on areas of the guidelines that significantly depart from past iterations, which may raise a range of new issues for companies contemplating a transaction, and likely broaden the scope of antitrust enforcement of M&A.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.