{"id":97,"date":"2023-12-20T15:59:49","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T19:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/?p=97"},"modified":"2024-02-16T16:05:16","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T20:05:16","slug":"ftc-and-doj-issue-highly-anticipated-merger-guidelines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/2023\/12\/20\/ftc-and-doj-issue-highly-anticipated-merger-guidelines\/","title":{"rendered":"FTC and DOJ Issue Highly Anticipated Merger Guidelines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On December 18, 2023, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) jointly\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ftc.gov\/news-events\/news\/press-releases\/2023\/12\/federal-trade-commission-justice-department-release-2023-merger-guidelines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">issued<\/a>\u00a0new\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ftc.gov\/system\/files\/ftc_gov\/pdf\/2023_merger_guidelines_final_12.18.2023.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Merger Guidelines<\/a>. The new guidelines amend, update and replace the numerous versions of merger guidelines previously issued by both agencies, including the 2010 Horizontal Merger Guidelines and the Vertical Merger Guidelines that were issued in 2020 and later withdrawn by the FTC in 2021. Below are our key takeaways, followed by some discussion of how the agencies apply the guidelines and then a deeper-dive into some industry-specific considerations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/federal_trade_commission_justice_department_issue_highly_anticipated_merger_guidelines_1223.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full <em>Alert<\/em> on the Duane Morris website.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On December 18, 2023, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) jointly\u00a0issued\u00a0new\u00a0Merger Guidelines. The new guidelines amend, update and replace the numerous versions of merger guidelines previously issued by both agencies, including the 2010 Horizontal Merger Guidelines and the Vertical Merger Guidelines that were issued in 2020 and later withdrawn &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/2023\/12\/20\/ftc-and-doj-issue-highly-anticipated-merger-guidelines\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;FTC and DOJ Issue Highly Anticipated Merger Guidelines&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[11,23,14,22,18,16,21,13,17],"ppma_author":[5],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-antitrust","tag-brian-pandya","tag-christopher-casey","tag-doj","tag-edward-biester","tag-ftc","tag-merger-guidelines","tag-sarah-olaughlin-kulik","tag-sean-mcconnell"],"authors":[{"term_id":5,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/antitrustlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}