{"id":1046,"date":"2023-07-21T12:30:50","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T16:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/techlaw\/?p=1046"},"modified":"2023-12-08T12:34:45","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T16:34:45","slug":"guidelines-for-tech-use-in-mergers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/techlaw\/2023\/07\/21\/guidelines-for-tech-use-in-mergers\/","title":{"rendered":"Guidelines for Tech Use in Mergers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On July 19, 2023, the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) jointly released\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ftc.gov\/system\/files\/ftc_gov\/pdf\/p859910draftmergerguidelines2023.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">draft Merger Guidelines<\/a>\u00a0to amend and update both the 2010 Horizontal Merger Guidelines and the Vertical Merger Guidelines that were issued in 2020 and later rescinded by the FTC in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The draft guidelines underscore recent enforcement efforts to rein in technology mergers. They target large platform providers, as well as mergers that might entrench or extend a dominant position (suggesting that a 30 percent share implies a dominant position). The draft guidelines focus on multisided platforms and competition between platforms, on the platform and to displace a platform. The agencies also specifically reference the use of algorithms and artificial intelligence in assessing potential post-merger coordination.\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/us_antitrust_enforcers_propose_much_anticipated_revised_merger_guidelines_0723.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full\u00a0<em>Alert\u00a0<\/em>on the Duane Morris website.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 19, 2023, the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) jointly released\u00a0draft Merger Guidelines\u00a0to amend and update both the 2010 Horizontal Merger Guidelines and the Vertical Merger Guidelines that were issued in 2020 and later rescinded by the FTC in 2021. The draft guidelines underscore recent enforcement efforts to rein in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/techlaw\/2023\/07\/21\/guidelines-for-tech-use-in-mergers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Guidelines for Tech Use 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":[1052],"tags":[796,548],"ppma_author":[878],"class_list":["post-1046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai","tag-antitrust","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"authors":[{"term_id":878,"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","author_category":"1","last_name":"Sullivan","first_name":"Margaret","job_title":"","user_url":"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com","description":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\">Visit the Duane Morris website.<\/a>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/techlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/techlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/techlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/techlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/techlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/techlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/techlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/techlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/techlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1046"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/techlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=1046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}