{"id":180,"date":"2023-12-20T14:13:45","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T18:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/artificialintelligence\/?p=180"},"modified":"2023-12-20T14:13:45","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T18:13:45","slug":"guidelines-discuss-role-of-tech-in-mergers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/artificialintelligence\/2023\/12\/20\/guidelines-discuss-role-of-tech-in-mergers\/","title":{"rendered":"Guidelines Discuss Role of Tech in Mergers"},"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.<\/p>\n<p>Big tech platforms will likely continue to be in the agencies\u2019 crosshairs, including by looking back or forward at smaller acquisitions that may enhance or extend dominant positions based on technology platforms or arguably eliminate potential competition.<\/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\u00a0<em>Alert\u00a0<\/em>on the Duane Morris website.\u00a0<\/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. Big tech platforms will likely continue to be in the agencies\u2019 crosshairs, including by looking back or forward at &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/artificialintelligence\/2023\/12\/20\/guidelines-discuss-role-of-tech-in-mergers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Guidelines Discuss Role of Tech in Mergers&#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":[35,131,130,129,126,132,128],"ppma_author":[5],"class_list":["post-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-brian-h-pandya","tag-christopher-h-casey","tag-edward-g-biester-iii","tag-mergers","tag-sarah-olaughlin-kulik","tag-sean-p-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\/artificialintelligence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/artificialintelligence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/artificialintelligence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/artificialintelligence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/artificialintelligence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/artificialintelligence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/artificialintelligence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/artificialintelligence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/artificialintelligence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/artificialintelligence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}