Department of Justice - Antitrust Division

DOJ Merger Enforcement Page

Federal Trade Commission - Merger Review

US Code – Title 15 (Commerce and Trade) - Chapter 1 (Monopolies and Combinations in Restraint of Trade

Hart-Scott-Rodino Premerger Notification Program (from FTC website)

Horizontal Merger Guidelines 2010
Replaced 1992 Guidelines as revised 1997

Policy Guide to Merger Remedies (Department of Justice, June 2011)

Negotiating Merger Remedies: Statement of the Bureau of Competition of the Federal Trade Commission (January 2012)

2011

Rachel Brandenburger and Joseph Matelis, 'The 2010 US Horizontal Merger Guidelines: A Historcal and International Perspective' (Summer 2011) 25(3) Antitrust 48

Sharis A Pozen, 'Developments at the Antitrust Division and the 2010 Horizontal Merger Guidelines - One Year Later (ABA Section of Antitrust Law, 2011 Antitrust Fall Forum, Washington DC, 17 November 2011)

Carl Shapiro, 'The 2010 Horizontal Merger Guidelines: From Hedgehog to Fox in Forty Years' (Working Paper, 10 September 2010) (SSRN)

Judd E Stone and Joshua D Wright, 'The Sound of One Hand Clapping: The 2010 Merger Guidelines and the Challenge of Judicial Adoption' (2011) George Mason University Law and Economics Research Paper Series 11-05 (published in Review of Industrial Organization)

2010

Alden F Abbott and Samuel N Weinstein, 'The New US Horizontal Merger Guidelines and International Competition Policy Convergence' (Fall 2010) 25 1 Antitrust 39

William Blumenthal, 'Scope and Specificity in the 2010 Guidelines: A Pretty Good Balance' (Fall 2010) 25 1 Antitrust 10

Leah Brannon and Kathleen Bradish, 'The Revised Horizontal Merger Guidelines: Can the Courts Be Persuaded?' (October 2010) The Antitrust Source

Jeffrey W Brennan, 'Bridge to the New Merger Guidelines: The FTC-DOJ 2006 Commentary' (Fall 2010) 25 1 Antitrust 15

Susan Creighton, '2010 Horizontal Merger Guidelines: The View from the Technology Industry' (October 2010) The Antitrust Source

Jay Ezrielev and Janusz A. Ordover, 'The 2010 Horizontal Merger Guidelines: A Static Compass in a Dynamic World?' (October 2010) The Antitrust Source

Deborah L. Feinstein, 'The Revised Merger Guidelines: Did the Agencies Heed the Lessons of the Past?' (October 2010) The Antitrust Source

Deborah L Feinstein, 'The New Merger Guidelines: Using Statistical Analysis to Assess Their Impact' (Fall 2010) 25 1 Antitrust 5

Larry Fullerton, 'Introduction: 2010 Horizontal Merger Guidelines' (Fall 2010) 25 1 Antitrust 8

Deborah A. Garza, 'Market Definition, the New Horizontal Merger Guidelines, and the Long March Away from Structural Presumptions' (October 2010) The Antitrust Source

Ilene Knable Gotts, 'Are the New Guidelines Representational Art or Pop Art in the End?' (October 2010) The Antitrust Source

Jerry Hausman, '2010 Merger Guidelines: Empirical Analysis' (October 2010) The Antitrust Source

D. Bruce Hoffman and Daniel Francis, 'Including Exclusion in the 2010 Horizontal Merger Guidelines' (October 2010) The Antitrust Source

Herbert J Hovenkamp, 'Merger Policy and the 2010 Merger Guidelines; (16 October 2010; revised 3 December 2010). U Iowa Legal Studies Research Paper No. 10-34 (SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1693246)

James Langenfeld and Gregory G Wrobel, 'Upward Pricing Pressure Analysis Under the 2010 Horizontal Merger Gudelines' (Fall 2010) 25 1 Antitrust 21

M Sean Royall and Adam J Di Vincenzo, 'Evaluating Mergers Between Potential Competitors Under the New Horizontal Merger Guidelines' (Fall 2010) 25 1 Antitrust 33

Shearman & Sterling LLP Antitrust Group, 'The 2010 DOJ and FTC Horizontal Merger Guidelines: Increasing Realism While Reducing Predictability' (Client Publication, August 2010)

Gary Zanfagna, 'Pandora's Box Opened: The New Horizontal Merger Guidelines' (October 2010) The Antitrust Source

Best Practices on Cooperation in Merger Investigations between US-EU (October 2011)
Alternative site - FTC page

See reading room - USA