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To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On 22 December 2020, on a divided vote, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC or the Commission) issued a Commentary on Vertical Merger Enforcement (FTC Commentary) to provide “greater transparency to the public regarding its analysis of vertical mergers.” Following the FTC and Department of Justice (DOJ)’s publication of new Vertical Merger Guidelines in June 2020 (the 2020 Vertical Guidelines) , the FTC Commentary provides analysis of a number of the vertical merger cases the agency has adjudicated over the past 25 years, offeri...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Split along partisan lines, the Federal Trade Commission (Commission) voted last week to issue Commentary on Vertical Merger Enforcement (Commentary). The Commentary intends to “provide[] greater transparency to the public regarding [the Commission’s] analysis of vertical mergers” by collecting in a single document the Commission’s past vertical merger cases and summarizing how it has analyzed potential anticompetitive effects in vertical transactions. [1] The two Democratic commissioners dissented here just as they had in J...