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GRIP Q&A: FTC and DOJ sticks with 2023 merger guidelines

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Michelle Mantine and Courtney Bedell Averbach analyze what this means for businesses and assess potential antitrust regulation developments under President Trump.

On February 18, Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairman Andrew Ferguson announced the agency’s commitment to the Biden-era merger guidelines, which the FTC and Department of Justice (DOJ) jointly issued in 2023.

Michelle Mantine. Photo: Reed Smith

The 2023 merger guidelines constitute the legal and economic framework for the antitrust agencies’ merger review analysis. In

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