The guidelines outline the techniques, practices and enforcement policies the agencies will use to evaluate mergers and acquisitions involving competitors and are intended to help businesses better understand how the FTC and DOJ evaluate proposed mergers.
The latest version of the guidelines include a section of evidence the agencies use to predict the competitive effect of mergers, according to the report.
Read the revised horizontal merger guidelines (pdf).
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