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Record Number Of Mergers Forces US Regulatory Agencies’ Hand On Updating Enforcement Guides

 
• By Malcolm Spicer

Chairwoman Lina Khan says concerns about impact on consumer product markets from mergers prompted FTC, working with DoJ, to seek public input on modernizing federal merger guidelines to better detect and prevent illegal, anticompetitive deals in current markets.

• Source: Alamy

Lina Khan's reputation for anti-trust enforcement preceded her appointment as Federal Trade Commission chairwoman in 2020. Mergers and other deals combining large companies across consumer product industries since then only have made protecting marketplace competition more of a priority.

On 18 January, Khan said concerns about the impact on consumer product markets from mergers prompted the FTC, working with...

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