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March 30, 2006

Antitrust Agencies Issue Commentary Clarifying Application of Merger Guidelines

On Monday, the Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission took the significant step of issuing a joint 60-page commentary on the application of the agencies’ Horizontal Merger Guidelines.

As fleshed out in a Morrison & Foerster memo posted in our “Antitrust” Practice Area, the commentary is important because it signifies a willingness of the Agencies to sacrifice, to a limited extent, enforcement flexibility for greater transparency and predictability in the application of the Guidelines to mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures.

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