{"id":5251,"date":"2010-04-20T17:43:20","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T22:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=5251"},"modified":"2011-01-20T14:38:21","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T19:38:21","slug":"new-antitrust-guidelines-for-mergers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/04\/20\/new-antitrust-guidelines-for-mergers\/","title":{"rendered":"New antitrust guidelines for mergers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-5252\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/04\/antitrust-image-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"antitrust image\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/04\/antitrust-image-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/04\/antitrust-image-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/04\/antitrust-image.jpg 396w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>U.S. antitrust regulators from the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission have proposed <a title=\"new guidelines\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=newsarchive&amp;sid=arDmjFTiJn9s\" target=\"_blank\">new guidelines <\/a>for how they scrutinize mergers for possible antitrust violations.\u00a0 Law Professor <a title=\"Keith Hylton\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/faculty\/profiles\/bios\/full-time\/hylton_k.html\" target=\"_blank\">Keith Hylton<\/a>, an antitrust law authority, and School of Management finance Professor <a title=\"Michael Salinger\" href=\"http:\/\/smgnet.bu.edu\/mgmt_new\/profiles\/SalingerMichael.html\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Salinger<\/a>, a former FTC director, agree the proposed guidelines more accurately reflect current practice &#8212; but that only time will tell if they&#8217;ll work.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Hylton<\/span>:\u00a0 <em>&#8220;As defendants become better acquainted with actual practice, the FTC may find that it prefers to make further changes down the road.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Salinger<\/span>:\u00a0 <em>&#8220;What remains to be seen is whether the courts will accept the less structured approach.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Keith Hylton, 617-353-8959, <a href=\"mailto:knhylton@bu.edu\">knhylton@bu.edu<\/a>, or Michael Salinger, 617-353-4408, <a href=\"mailto:salinger@bu.edu\">salinger@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. antitrust regulators from the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission have proposed new guidelines for how they scrutinize mergers for possible antitrust violations.\u00a0 Law Professor Keith Hylton, an antitrust law authority, and School of Management finance Professor Michael Salinger, a former FTC director, agree the proposed guidelines more accurately reflect current practice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[2477,1177,1901,2710],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5251"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5251"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7778,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5251\/revisions\/7778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}