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Sara Razi Quoted in The Deal on New Vertical Merger Guidelines
07.09.20
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Sara Razi, Global Co-Chair of Simpson Thacher’s Antitrust and Trade Regulation Practice, was quoted in a The Deal article titled, “New Vertical Merger Guidelines Face Test of Time.” The article highlighted the new guidelines for evaluating vertical mergers which were recently issued by the DOJ and FTC—the first update of vertical merger guidelines since 1984. When discussing the new guidelines, Sara noted that they provide “…a more expansive approach, but also one that’s designed to reflect what the agencies are doing in practice day-to-day.” She further explained that they, “present a lot of different angles for the agencies to justify their competitive effects analysis of a vertical transaction” and elaborate on “the types of issues they may potentially examine in an investigation.”
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