On March 12, 2025, the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) launched a consultation on its approach to merger remedies, asking whether the authority should permit more complex remedies in Phase I investigations and...more
JANUARY – MARCH 2022: HIGHLIGHTS - UNITED STATES - • The US antitrust agencies continue with their aggressive merger enforcement posture. The agencies challenged four transactions this quarter, including multiple...more
The Department of Justice (“DOJ”) recently signaled a possible shift in its antitrust merger review and remedies practice, moving away from a willingness to allow transactions to proceed through a divesture process....more
Earlier this week, Stone Canyon Industry Holdings LLC (“Stone Canyon”) and its portfolio company SCIH Salt Holdings Inc. (“SCIH”) reached a settlement agreement with the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) to resolve its...more
On September 3, 2020, the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Antitrust Division released a revised Merger Remedies Manual. This revised manual is the culmination of a review by the Antitrust Division of its entire approach to...more
The US Department of Justice Antitrust Division issued a new Merger Remedies Manual on September 3 clarifying the analytical framework the Trump administration’s DOJ is using to evaluate remedies that may address competitive...more
The U.S. Department of Justice's ("DOJ") new remedies guide reinforces its strong preferences for structural divestitures and upfront buyers to resolve merger investigations. Last week, the DOJ released a new "Merger...more
The United States Department of Justice released its revised Merger Remedies Manual on September 3, 2020, providing “Antitrust Division attorneys and economists with a framework for fashioning and implementing appropriate...more
On September 3, 2020, the DOJ’s Antitrust Division released its Merger Remedies Manual. The manual provides important guidance on what DOJ considers to be adequate solutions to addressing competitive issues in M&A deals...more
The Department of Justice Antitrust Division recently issued a modernized Merger Remedies Manual, last updated in 2011. The Manual provides an overview of DOJ’s key considerations in crafting a remedy when the Antitrust...more
The Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice this week announced the final version of their first jointly-issued Vertical Mergers Guidelines (the “Guidelines”). The Guidelines were issued along a...more