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Anti-Competitive Antitrust Division Vertical Mergers

McDermott Will & Emery

Antitrust M&A Snapshot | Q1 2025

JANUARY – MARCH 2025: KEY THEMES AND TAKEAWAYS - UNITED STATES - FTC Loses Vertical Challenge to Tempur Sealy/Mattress Firm On July 2, 2024, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filed suit in federal court seeking to block...more

Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider LLP

A Vertical Merger in a “Horizontal” Market: Court Rejects FTC’s Challenge to Tempur Sealy’s Acquisition of Mattress Firm

On January 31, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas denied the Federal Trade Commission’s request for a preliminary injunction to block Tempur Sealy’s (the world’s largest mattress manufacturer)...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

DOJ and FTC Finalize New Merger Guidelines – What You Need to Know

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On December 18—nearly two years after announcing plans to revise the Merger Guidelines—the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) (together, “the Agencies”) issued a final version of their new...more

Alston & Bird

Antitrust Agencies Propose Updated Guidance on Vertical Transactions

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Buying a competitor isn’t the only way to bring the attention of federal antitrust agencies. Our Antitrust and Mergers & Acquisitions Groups discuss new proposed guidance – the first in more than 25 years – for review of...more

K&L Gates LLP

Antitrust Agencies Release Draft Vertical Merger Guidelines: A Healthcare Perspective

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The Department of Justice (“DOJ”) Antitrust Division and the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) recently released a draft of their updated Vertical Merger Guidelines (the “Guidelines”), the first update since 1984. ...more

Perkins Coie

US DOJ and FTC Propose Vertical Merger Guidelines

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The U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Federal Trade Commission published proposed vertical merger guidelines (vertical guidelines) on January 10, 2020. These are designed to increase the transparency of the agencies'...more

King & Spalding

DOJ and FTC Release New Vertical Merger Review Guidelines for Public Comment

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On Friday, January 10, the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division and the Federal Trade Commission issued new guidelines for the agencies’ review of vertical mergers. Vertical mergers involve the combination of firms...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Podcast: Antitrust: Looking Back and Looking Forward

In this episode, Akin Gump antitrust partners Gorav Jindal and Corey Roush discuss antitrust developments in 2018 and look at what 2019 may bring. Among the topics covered: • antitrust under the Trump administration • major...more

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